[This paragraph to be omitted in the case of appointments of more than 2500 (in 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.
6. If you are prepared to accept the appointment on these conditions, you should present yourself to one of the Medical Advisers of this Department, whose name is given on the annexed letter, for the purpose of being medically examined. The letter is to be handed to him, and you will be required to pay him a fee of one guinea. He will send his report direct to this Department. The fee for this examination will be repaid to you.
7. 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 reason other 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 half salary and full salary respectively will be then available, as to which you will receive information from 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.
9. 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,
Downing Street, London, July 27 Jun 1901
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, Miss Margaret Renwick? Miss H. M. Gourley and report whether, in your opinion, she is physically fit for service as Nursing Sister in the Hongkong Medical Department.
You will have to pay you a fee of one guinea. It has been arranged that your fee for this exam will be paid by the C.A for the Colonies.
I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant,
Patrick Manson, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P., 21, Queen Anne Street, London, W.; Andrew Davidson, Esq., M.D., 29, Morningside Drive, Edinburgh; 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.)