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Instructions referred to on page 1.
If this Paper of Particnlars and the Certificates connected with it, be not sent in original, the copies must be duly attested.
COPY
No.352.
132
C. O.
18010
ENCLOSURE
2
Ren
22 JG.3
Colonial Secretary's Office.
Hong-Kong, 13th. March, 1889.
Head of Paper.--In the case of an Officer serving on the West Coast of Africa, a statement is to be added whether he
a native of that Coast. (Colonial Regulations, § 430.)
Head 3.-State the description of Allowance for which the Application is recommended, viz., Superannuation, Compensati Compassionate Allowance, or Gratuity and its amount. In the case of Persons claiming an addition to their Pensie in respect of Professional or other special qualifications, this should be stated, and a reference should be given to anthority under which the claim is made.
Head 5. If the service has been interrupted by one or more breaks, the word "broken" should be added before or afteri number of years and mouths, and the causes, dates, and circumstances of the break or breaks should be stated and heading 9.
Head 6.-If the person retiring has been in receipt of the same Salary, or in the class from which he retires, for the months immediately before the date of his retirement, the actual annual rate of Salary or Wages at that date should inserted, preceded by the word "actual" In other cases the average annual amount of Salary or Wages for the months next preceding the date of retirement should be inserted, proceded by the word "average," but if the wh period of service is less than three years, then the average for the whole period of service should be inserted. Head 7.-A separate statement should be inserted of the average Aumnal Value, for the 36 months immediately precedi retirement, of each Emolument (exebisive of salary or wages) which is claimed to be included in the calculation the Pension or Granity.
Whenever the value of a House or House Allowance, so ascertained, exceeds one-sixth of the salary and oth emoluments which count for Pensiou purposes, it is to be reduced to one-sixth of that amount, so that it shall exceed one-seventh of the whole,
Fees which an Officer is allowed to retain. for his own use will be taken into account for Pension purposes, T regular salary, at the annual average of the net receipts of the 36 months next preceding the Officer's retireme These act receipts are to be ascertained by deducting from the gross amount of Fees sucht Office Expenses, &c. an Officer may have had to defray fròni his own resources, in performing the services for which he was remunerateli Fees. No deduction, however, from the Fees should be made in respect of Office Expenses provided from Pil Funds, for the due discharge of those duties to which a Fixed Salary is annexod. Papers of Particulars" wi forwarded to the Colonial Department should be accompanied by formal Declarations from the retiring Officers, showi the amount received by them for Feas, and the amount defrayed as above for Office Expenses, &c., in each of the the years immediately preceding the retirement. It will be the duty of the Colonial Governments conecrued to gall themselves of the accuracy of such statements before forwarding them to the Colonial Office. In the case of Offe receiving Fixed Salaries and Fees, the Fees will not in ordinary circumstances be allowed to count for Pension 1 poses to the extent of more than one quarter of the Salarios, and Fees will not in any case be allowed to counti Pension purposes during any period in which the whole time of the Officer receiving them was not given to the Pu Service.
Head 8.-In cases of infirmity, if the Applicant is below the ordinary age for retirement, a Medical Certificate is t furnished showing that he is disqualified by infirmity of mind or body for discharging the duties of his situation, a that such infirmity is likely to be permanent.
In case of ten years' service or more, this Certificate should be signed by two Officers, of whom at least one sho if possible, be a Salaried Officer of the Government.
Head 9.—As to "broken" service, see Head 5.
If the Applicant has had any "acting" service, the details must be fully given, with a statement whether or during the "acting" service, he was connected with the permanent Civil Service of the Colony.
Head 11.-If, in special circumstances, a professional Civil Officer has been allowed to have "private practice" with
forfeiting his claim to Pension, the facts are to be fully stated.
Heud 14.-If the Applicant is liable to any deduction from his service under Clauso 102 of the Colonial Regulations, !
facts should be fully stated.
Head 19-The length of service and other particulars of the computation are to be given. When an average of Saiar
&c., is taken, the mode of calculating it (whether by mouths, &c.) is to be explained.
$480
Sir,
I am directed by the Governor to inform you
that His Excellency has been pleased to appoint you to be
Special Engineer for the Praya Reclamation Scheme, from the
15th.instant, on a salary of four hundred and eighty dollars
per month, all included.
I am to add that you will relinquish all work
in the Surveyor General's Office on the date named and will
correspond directly with this office until the arrival in the
Colony of the new Surveyor General, when you will be under
that Officer.
E. BOWDLER
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8CC 1
800.
I have,&c.,
(Sa.) FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary.