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 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.
This paragraph to
4 #
be omitted in the case
of appointments of
more than £500 (West Africa £600)
class will be provided with (free passages to the Colony on your behalf for yourself and your wife). The usual agreement with the Crown Agents for the Colonies, Whitehall Gardens, 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.
5. 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.
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,
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No. 30215
C. O.
DOMESTIC.
30215
13 AUG 03
(Subject)
Merchant Shipping
& 20 copies
(Minutes.)
483
confirming
subsequent Paper.
PL
13
ce
for
Risley
Collins
Merchant Shipping at this Order
It was published in Gazette 711/8. By Sopored gazett of that date & that of res may now be brought into force.
JBU 13/8
My 13/8
Council