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to render such a course desirable. The Governor and Council will decide, having regard to the ground of dismissal, whether the Cadet shall be sent home at the public expense, or shall be left to find his own way home, or shall be, in addition, called upon to repay the cost of his passage out.
7. A Bond must be entered into by the Cadet and two approved sureties, or an approved Guarantee Society, with the Crown Agents for the Colonies to secure the repayment of the cost of the passage out in the event of his dismissal and of its being decided by the Governor and Executive Council that such repayment shall be enforced, and also in the event of the Cadet leaving within four years from the date of his arrival in the Straits Settlements, whether by quitting the Colony without leave or relinquishing his appointment (except on account of ill health), together with a further sum of £50 for each year, to repay the Colony the cost of his teaching, up to his leaving.
8. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to officers of the permanent Government service after a period of six years' resident service in the Colony without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition, or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months in any two years.
9. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill health an officer may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond thirty-five years.
10. A deduction of four per cent. is made from the salaries of all those who enter the Straits Settlements Civil Service, as a contribution to the 'Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund' of the two Colonies.
11. The dollar is at present reckoned by the Straits Settlements Accountant-General at 4s. for the purpose of the payment in England of leave-salary, and at 3s. 8d. for the payment of pension.
COLONIAL OFFICE,
26th November-1894
Jazifield
Examinations for Eastern Cadetships, viz., for Cadetships in the Civil Service of Hong Kong, Ceylon, and the Straits Settlements.
[The next Examination for Eastern Cadetships will be held under these Regulations. Alterations may be made for any subsequent Examination.]
1. The Cadets, who must be natural-born British subjects, are selected by open competitive examination held by the Civil Service Commissioners, to whom all inquiries on the subject should be addressed.
* If an Examination is held in 189..., it will take place in either October or November.
The examinations for these appointments will, as a rule, be held in the month of October in those years in which vacancies have occurred in the Civil Services of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, and the Straits Settlements; Candidates will be allowed, in their order, to choose amongst the vacancies in the three Colonies.
2. Candidates must be between the ages of 21 and 24 on the first day of August in the year in which the Examination is held, and must satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners that they are duly qualified in respect of health and character. They must be of sound constitution, possessed of good sight, and physically qualified for service in tropical climates, and they will be called upon to undergo a medical examination to test these points.
3. No candidate will be admitted to the competition who has not previously passed, to the satisfaction of the Civil Service Commissioners, a Preliminary Examination in Handwriting, Orthography, and Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions).
4. The Fees required from Candidates are £1 for the preliminary and £7 for the competitive examination.
5. The heads of the competitive examination are as follows:--
A. Obligatory,
a. Latin.
b. One of the following languages:--Greek, French, German, Italian. The qualifying test for a and b will be translation from the language, but marks will be given for translation into it, and, in the case of the Modern languages, for colloquial proficiency.
c. English Composition, including Précis Writing.
B. Optional.
4. Pure Mathematics, viz. Euclid I.-IV., and VI.; Algebra, including the Binomial theorem; Trigonometry, including the solution of Triangles; Analytical Geometry (elementary) and mixed Mathematics, including Statics and Dynamics treated without the Differential Calculus.
e. (1) Modern Geography and (2) Ancient and Modern History. The Examination in History will be confined to certain periods, to be prescribed for each examination.†
† For the next Examination the periods will be:-
Ancient History,
(a.) Greek History from B.C. 300 to the death of Philip (B.C. 336),
(b.) Roman History from the end of the Third Punic War (B.C. 146), to the accession of Vespasian (A.D. 70).
Modern History from 1688 to 1860.
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