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duties required of him or all or any of the orders of the
Consulting Engineers or of the Engineer or shall be guilty of any misconduct or negligence or of any breach or non-per- formance of the provisions of these presents it shall be
competent to the Consulting Engineers either by letter or
telegram to declare the employment of the Assistant under
this Agreement at an end and in such case the Assistant shall refund to the Consulting Engineers a proportionate amount of the sum paid for his return passage to London or the Con- sulting Engineers may deduct the same from any amount then
Aue from them to him unless this Agreement be terminated un-
der this Clause owing to such ill health of the Assistant as aforesaid for a period of longer than four consecutive weeks and he forthwith and with all diligence (having regard to the condition of his health) proceed to London. A duly quali-
fied medical officer shall be the sole judge of the Assis- tant's fitness or unfitness to travel and the Consulting Engineers will not recognise that any delay was occasioned by ill health unless such a Medical Officer so certifies.
9th. Subject to the due and faithful observance and performance by the Assistant of all the terms of this Agree- ment he shall during such time as he shall actually remain in the service of the Consulting Engineers and perform his duties hereunder be paid by the Consulting Engineers at a salary at the rate of Fifty pounds sterling per calendar month in satisfaction of all services to be rendered by him hereunder. The said salary shall as to the whole or any any part thereof be payable monthly in Hong Kong at the ex- change of the day for sight bills on London, or in sterling in London as the Assistant may request, the salary commenc- ing from the date of the Assistant leaving London as afore- said and ceasing on the day of his quitting the service of
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