"I have the honour to state below my view on the sort of qualifications which would mit the work to be done here:--
แ (a) The gentleman should not be more than 35 years, nor less than 25.
(6) He should be able to present evidence and credentials of a satisfactory training at a first-class School of Art in England, or France, or Germany. If his early training was English, then the Royal Academy School, or the Slade School, or one of the important branches of the South Kensington Department (e.g., the London Head Quarters, or Manchester, or Birmingham, or Glasgow, or their equivalent) is to be preferred.
"(r) He should be able to give undoubted proofs of being a competent teacher, but his experience in that capacity need not have been gained only at a School of Art or institution of that kind. If he has served the artistic staff connected with one of the more important manufactures requiring good decorative design, and has had subordinate draughtsmen under him to train. his teaching capacity as well as his skill as an artist would probably be superior to the teacher from a second rate branch School of Art, and his success as a trainer of teachers in Ceylon more sure. I have known more than one case in England where such men have done excellent work as headmasters of Schools of Art at the same time as they are following their other professional calling as designers in large works. Their knowledge is more practical and their skill much greater.
"A considerable period spent in studio life is not to be looked on as a recom- mendation. And a training in a public or private studio in England or on the Continent is not to be preferred to a properly certificated course at an unimportant public institution under Government or University control.
“(d) He should be able to show original work as draughtsman and painter; and a fair knowledge of modelling would be desirable. As a draughtsman his work must include the figure, and not consist only of conventional decoration.
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(e) It should not be forgotten that the work to be done here will not necessarily be of the more or less stereotyped kind obtaining in western Europe. The work must be adapted to Eastern people and take due account of their traditional sentiment. It would be, in my opinion, disastrous to enforce too rigorously western ideas of Art in Ceylon. A sympathetic, and therefore artistic, man is required."
The exchange value of the rupee is about 1s. 4d. sterling.
The principal rules as to leave of absence and pension are as follows:-
Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to members of the permanent Government service, after a period of six years' resident service in the Colony, without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition, or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such c..se must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months in any two years.
The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of illhealth, an officer may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service ; otherwise he must have sitained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service, fifteen-sixtieths of the average Mantal salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retire- ment may
be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's nagrios; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years.
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February, 1900,
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