& unfamed cadets tract in substantii forts is greath the
deprecated, and should only be resorted to incases of extin
necessity.
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Hongkong.
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sir,
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J.
Government House,
D
C. O.
4251
CA DECC
1902.
Hongkong, 7th. November,
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Despatch No. 316 of the 27th. September last,
Zwi
on the subject of moluments to be drawn by Passed Cadets
when in acting appointments.
2.
I decided in May last that Unpassed Cadets
should receive their full allowance and half the salary of
the acting appointments, as Unpassed Cadets, whose services
I may add have been most valuable in the past three years,
were obliged to pursue their Chinese studies as well as per-
forming their duties in the acting appointments. Passed Cadets
are on a different footing. The appointment of a Passed Cadet
is a substantive one, and he is a member of the Civil Service
employed on general duties pending the accurrence of a vacancy.
But while under the terms of his appointment an Unpassed
Cañet is attached to a Goverment Office, where he acquires
a knowledge of his clerical duties. I do not think it could
have been intended that he should fill an acting appointment
involving responsible duties without receiving the same con- sideration as that given by the Colonial Regulations to other
Officers holding substantive appointments, and for such acting
I decided appointments I placed them on the same footing.
this point in May, 1900, when a question arose as to the pay-
-ment
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,