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in Hong Kong and shews the rate at which
your salary will be paid in the local currency.
You will observe that a deduction of 4% will
be made from your salary as a contribution
towards the provision of pensions for the
Widows and Orphans of Government officers.
If you accept this appointment you
4.
will be provided with a free first class
passage to Hong Kong by the first convenient
steamer, (other than a mail steamer) leaving
leave of
England after the expiration of your
about the middle gangust.
absence from the Gold Coast. You will be
required to sign the usual agreement with the
Crown Agents by which you will be bound to
repay the cost of your passage to Hong Kong
to the Colonial Government in the event of
your leaving the service within three years
of the date of your arrival in the Colony
for any other reason than mental or
physical infirmity.
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you
provided theat not a drawing pay from the fold
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You will be entitled to half salary
from Hong Kong funds from the date of em-
barkation and to full salary from the date of
your arrival in the Colony. You will be given
an extension of leave, with half salary from
Gold Coast funds, for any necessary period between the expiration of your vacation leave
and the date of embarkation.
me as
6.
I am to request that you will inform
soon as possible whether you wish to
accept this transfer.
for th
I am &c.,
<ifred) H. J. READ.
Aver Secretary of State
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