the date of embarkation, full pay from that of arrival in the colony;
and that while the
will possibly
for purposes of half pay. [The salary of their pension is calculated
at
His going rate 4/2 an officer wishing to
make remittances home
at the
can do so
only at the rate of exchange of the day.
3. I am to request you
to state at your
earliest convenience at what date
you will be entitled to
an officer
under the
raised scheme next year, in which case the 4/2 rate will be altered. Nothing need be said here, as he does not raise the
question.
as this salary will not be raised having recently been
raised.
44.
DRAFT.
The Colonial Agents
MINUTE.
Mr. Lucas
Mr. Fairfield
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston.
21.
Mr. Meade, 215
Sir R. Herbert.
Baron de Worms.
Lord Knutsford.
July
£4.4
earle
stet
3 drafts
for consideration
Leave for
the exlog.
Ru
lux
22
Gentlemen I am directed by
246
July 90
Lord Knutsford to request you to be good enough to pay
to the Board of Trade
from Hong Kong funds the sum of your guineas, being the amount of fees charged
by the medical board
of Sporner & Hill the medical officers of
the department, who have
examined M.R.C. Dixon
as to his fitness for the post of Assist Surveyor in Hong Kong