One
His
Gumea.
He will send
report
direct to this
Office.
I fully
selected for
the
appt, you
will be provided with a
first class passage to the Colony for yourself &
four servants in all,
on
stamer leaving soon after the 1st of January,
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Eunλ
your
signing the usual
agreement with the C.agk
for the Colony, Downing
St, by which you
will be bound to
repay
£307 to the Colonial Govt
I do not think that it will be fair & make a time table to refund for more than the usual
three years. But
in the event of your serving for the full three years, you will be
free from all liability
of the appointment in
the cost
of your passage &
of your salary during the appt
three years.
You will not be permitted
within five years of
the date
of your arrival
in the Colony to engage
in any
other
profession or
business
than medical.
In case of
physical infirmity,
you will be
entitled to half salary,
to a free passage back to England
from the date
of your
embarkation from this
country and to
full
pay from the date
of your arrival at
Hongkong; and I am
to request that
you