Paragraph to be filed in the care of Appointments of salary per annum.
5. 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 unused 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.
6. If finally selected for appointment, you will be provided with free passages to the Colony for yourself & your wife, 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 passages in the event of your leaving the service of the Colony within three years of the date of your arrival in the Colony for any other reason than mental or physical infirmity.
7. 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.
8. 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,
9. Before leaving for Hong Kong, it is desirable that you should attend either at the London or Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for an eight-weeks course of instruction. You should enquire which of the Schools you would prefer to attend on this point. Further instructions will be sent to you on receipt of your reply.
Governor.
No. 5708 (Subject.) Medical Staff
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