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[This paragraph is to be omitted in the case of appointments for more than £500 per annum.]
Selection can be completed. In other respects, you will be subject to the Colonial Regulations in force for the time being, which are published in the annual “Colonial Office List,” and can also be consulted in this Office.
The appointment is under the Colonial Government, and your emoluments will be paid solely from the funds of the Colony.
If you are prepared to accept the appointment on these conditions, you should present yourself to the Medical Adviser 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.
If finally selected for the probationary 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 other reason than mental or physical infirmity.
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 will be then available, as to which you may obtain information in this Department. In the event of your appointment being cancelled, you will not be entitled to any leave of absence or pay after the date of the letter by which the cancellation is notified to you, unless the Governor, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, shall grant it on special grounds.
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.
It is not absolutely essential that you arrive in Shanghai by the 1st of March.
Sir,
Downing Street, London,
January 10, 1902
I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to request that you will be good enough to examine the bearer of this letter, and report whether, in your opinion, she is physically fit for service as required.
This letter is to be detached and left with the Medical Adviser.
You are requested to inform me of the result of your examination.
Your obedient Servant,
Head of the British School at Kowloon:
He has been informed that he will have to pay a fee of one guinea for this examination.
Patrick Manson, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P., 21, Queen Anne Street, London, W.; Andrew Davidson, Esq., M.D., Morningside Drive, Edinburgh; or J. Hawtrey Benson, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P.I., 57, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin,
(Hours: 10 a.m. to 12 noon.)
(Hours: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
(Hours: 2.30 to 4 p.m.)