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desp. to for. 25993/13
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1.0. will cause final decision of Wo. to be communicated in due
Course
to Domart Khan,
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4 doriail Khan.
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A
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ol
1671
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG.
1st December, 1914.
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With reference to your despatch No.331 of the 30th October, 1913, and to previous correspondence on the subject of the pension to be awarded to Ismail Khan, I have the honour to transmit for your consideration the enclosed copy of a letter in which Ismail Khan, now residing in India on pension, appeals to this Government for a re-consideration of his previous application, a copy of which 35442 was enclosed in my despatch No.354 of the 11th October, 1912, in
which he claimed a pension in respect of his Army service prior to joining the Hongkong Police.
2.
The statements made in Ismail Khan's letter are substantially correct. He served in the Hongkong Regiment for 15 years and 151 days prior to the disbandment of the Regiment in 1902. He did not, however, avail himself of the option of re-enlisting in the Indian Army in which case his previous service would have counted towards pension, but took his discharge and after 11 months of civil life joined the Hongkong Police Force. On the 15th October last he retired from the Police owing to ill-health and advancing age, after completing 10 years and 7 months' service, which would only have entitled him to a gratuity of $155 had not this Government condoned the break of 11 months in his previous service. In view of the special circumstances of his case he was in fact granted by the Colonial Government a pension of $46.50 per annum as if he had served 16 years in the Hongkong Police.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
&c.,
&C..
&c.
1
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