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taken over
but in April 1905 Mr. Lyttelton
forwarded a draft of an ordinance to effect
the transfer of the Fund and asked that it
might be introduced as soon as convenient,
and in March 1906 I suggested that certain
amendments should be made in the Hongkong
law so as to bring it into conformity with
the more liberal system which prevails in
some other colonies as regards the treatment
of bachelors and widowers without pensionable
children, and de-sumobning(?) to remedy the
system under which such officers were mulcted
for the benefit of their married brother
officers.
5.
The Ordinance now before me authorizes the adoption of the new Ceylon Pension Tables and confers upon bachelors and widowers without pensionable children the benefits just alluded to, but omits altogether the provisions for the Government taking over the Fund and guaranteeing the pensions on the basis of which the other...