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quinquennial bonus of three month's full pay in lew of a passage home .
"" he amendment suggested by the Secretary of State has been somewhat mo. dified at the instance of Mr May, the Captain Superintendent of Police, in his memorandum in cot. 56 of 1895, where he points out that no distinction (as machined in Co. 388/94) has ever been made between men
engaged in Hongkong engaged at home, as,
· regards
and metr
defraying
their passage
home for leave
I purposes, and he adds that be considers
it
very
undesirable to make any
looking at the number of.
in the Colony.
distinction,
recruited.
Section 2 of the Ardinance, therefore,
provides that the bonus in liar of a free
passage is to be a sum
equal to the cat
of such passage, provided such sum does
not exceed three mouths,
of
· pay of the rank
the subordinate officer or constable
claiming it.
As
regards section 3, this mates the Governor to withdraw, in proper cases, distinctive badges or medals conferred
for long
services.
and faithful or citraordinary
Section
modified the Schedule to Ardinance 14 of 1887 by enabling
the
Governor to regulate the distribution of departmental Police and adds the Post- master ipnerais department to the list. It also alters the numbers of the Price under the several divisions of the Force.
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W. Meigh Goodman, Alborney General.
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