4. If you are prepared to accept the appointment, you should present yourself to one of the Medical Advisers of this Department, whose names are given on the annexed letter, for the purpose of being medically examined. The letter is to be detached and left with him; and you will be required to pay him a fee of one guinea. He will send his report direct to this Department.
5. If finally selected for appointment, you will be provided with a free passage to the Colony, on your signing the usual agreement with the Crown Agents for the Colonies, Downing Street, S.W., by which you will be bound to repay to the Colonial Government the cost of your passage in the event of your relinquishing the appointment within three years of the date of your arrival in the Colony for any reason other than mental or physical infirmity.
6. You will be entitled to half salary from the date of your embarkation from this country, and to full salary from the date of your arrival in the Colony, if such half salary and full salary respectively are then available, as to which you may obtain information in this Department.
7. I am to request that you will inform me of the earliest date at which you will be prepared to leave for the Colony, in order that the necessary communications may be made to the Governor and to the Crown Agents.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
No.
9
Paper.
No. 13616
(Subject.)
699
C.O.
DESPATCH.
13616
REC 27 & Recd 29 MAY 19
Subsidiary Silver Coin.
Sent copy corres with Indian Govt.
proposes that orders for ... be in the future executed by Crown Agents.
not seem
India:
(Minutes.)
The figures to tally with those in the despatch do not seem to agree with those in the exclones. Moreover, I note the following points: The offer of the Indian Mint
1. depends upon the annual supply being nearly $4,000,000 worth, and we are not told what their rate would be if the amount was lower.
2. I do not understand the arrangement with the H.K.& S. Bank, which is apparently designed to save C.A. Commissions, but surely the Bank itself would charge a Commission.
3. It is assumed that the ...