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6. As soon as he is declared by a Board of Examiners to have acquired a competent knowledge of such languages as he has been directed to study, and has passed such an examination as may be prescribed in Law, Colonial Ken. lations, and Government Orders, he will be temporarily employed in such of the Departments as may require his services, at a salary of $1,800 per annum, and will be considered eligible for appointment, as vacancies may occur, to offices in the Civil Service, the salaries of which range from $2,400 to $6,000 per annum, with a few special appointments at higher rates.
7. The progress of the Cadet will be tested by periodical examinations, and he will be liable to be dismissed without further pay if he does not pass a final examination in one or more of the languages within such time as may be fixed, or if at any time his progress or conduct shall be considere by the Government to be so unsatisfactory as to render such a cours desirable. The Government will decide, having regard to the ground of dismissal, whether the Cadet shall be sent home at the public expense, or shal be left to find his own way home.
8. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half sar may be granted after a period of six years' resident service without any spec 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 spee grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the office'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, f inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months is uny two years.
9. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill hels an officer may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resides service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full year resident service fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retir officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retirement may awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for cach additional year's servi but no addition will be made in respect of service beyond 35
years, pension purposes absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave i half pay as half service.
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10. A deduction of 4 per cent. is made from the salaries of all Cadets as contribution to one or other of the Widows and Orphans' Pension Funds of t two Colonies or of the Federated Malay States.
11. The dollar is reckoned at 3s. for the purpose of the payment in Engi of leave-salary and pension.
12. The Exchange value of the dollar varies from time to time, but Exchange Compensation allowance is granted to every European member the Civil Service (including Cadets) to bring one-half of his salary up to value of 3s. the dollar.
COLONIAL OFFICE,
29th March 1899.
EASTERN
No. 67.
Printed for the use of the Colonial Office.
HONG KONG, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, AND MALAY STATES CADETSHIPS.
1. With the view of supplying the Civil Service of Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and the Protected States of the Malay Peninsula, Cadetships have been established, the holders of which are required to serve indifferently in any of the above mentioned Colonies or States, and to devote themselves for a certain time after their arrival in the East to learning one or more of the native languages, as the local Government may direct. Cadets appointed to this service will in the first instance be allotted to one or other of the Colonies or States in question, and will, as a rule, look for promotion only in that Colony or State, but it must be distinctly understood that they will be liable to be transferred at any time from one to another, at the discretion of the Secretary of State, without being given compensation for any special local privileges or allowances.
2. 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.
The examination for these appointments will, as a rule, be held in the month of August, in those years in which vacancies have occurred, simultaneously with the examination for the Civil Service of India. 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.
3. The selected Candidates will be expected to leave England about a month after the results of the examination are announced.
4. Each Cadet will receive salary at the rate of $1,500 per annum, half salary to commence from the day of leaving England, and full salary from the date of his arrival in the Colony or State to which he may be sent. A free passage to the Colony or State will be provided for the Cadet, subject to an undertaking to refund the cost of his passage in the event of his relinquishing appointment within three years for any other reason than mental or physical infirmity.
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5. While studying the native languages he will be under the control and supervision of the Governor of the Colony or Resident in the State to which may be sent, who will frame regulations for his hours of study and general government. Quarters, books, and teachers will be provided for him at the public expense, and he will be required to attend at the Public Offices a certain time each day as may be directed by the Governor or Resident, in order to give him an opportunity of learning the details of public business, without interfering with his reading. He may also, if thought advisable, be sent for a certain time to China or to Madras in order to acquire more intimate knowledge of the Chinese or the Tamil language.
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