in sue.
ment Civil Hospital. cession to the present occupant of the post, whose period of agreement has expired, and whose appointment to the Sanitary Department by way of promotion has already re- ceived Your Lordship's sanction.
I enclose a paper of particulars of the post from
which it will be observed
in the case
that the period of agreement of the new officer to be appointed has been ex-
tended
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This
tended from 3 to 5 years. has been found recessary
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in
view of the fact that ward- masters in the Government Civil Hospital invariably seek promotion in other departments,
the expiry of their original agreements, and such trans-
on
fers the interets of the Medical Department. Your Lordship will further observe that -although the initial salary of $600 is the same as heretofore,
not consistent with
the