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Similarly, all existing officers holding posts included in the Sterling Scheme were without exception to be given a fixed time within which to elect, once for all, whether they would come under the Scheme or continue, during the remainder of their service in the Colony or State in which they were then serving, to receive salaries fixed in dollars.
9. In any case, it does not seem entirely accurate to say that the Hong Kong Sterling Scheme was designed to include only those offices which would in the dinary course be filled by Europeans appointed from this country, since provision vas made in the case of the Public Works Department for granting sterling salaries u (Junior) Assistant Engineers, engaged locally.
10. It was moreover pointed out in Mr. Chamberlain's despatch, No. 300, of the 12th September,* that Mr. Young Lu's salary as English Master and Supervisor for the Anglo-Chinese District Schools must, in accordance with the principles laid down, be fixed in sterling.
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As regards the grant of exchange compensation to probationary officers, I take this opportunity of stating that in the case of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States it was decided some time since to grant exchange com- pensation to all officers on probation or on agreement, except those engaged for purely special and temporary work, whom there was no idea of retaining perma- nently in the Government service on the expiry of their agreements. All officers, moreover, receiving exchange compensation in virtue of the terms of their engage- ments, have been granted the privilege of double exchange compensation, irre- spective of the precise terms in which they were promised Exchange Compensation in their agreements.
12. I should be glad to receive a list of all officers appointed on dollar salaries before August, 1901, who would be affected if the principle stated in the foregoing paragraph were applied to Hong Kong. The list should also show to what extent they would be affected.
13. As regards the officers whose cases are referred to in your despatches, I am prepared to agree to Mr. Carpenter's salary being fixed at £216 a year for the present, without increments; but I feel compelled to add that this seems to me hardly consistent with the Sterling Scheme, in which the salary of Mr. Carpenter's post has been fixed at £270 a year, rising by triennial increments of £30 to £330.* If Mr. Carpenter is discharging the duties of this post it does not appear quite equit- able that he should not receive the pay assigned thereto.
14. The principles stated in paragraphs 5 and 6 of this despatch of course apply to Mr. Xavier, on the assumption that he does not elect to come under the Sterling Scheme. It will not, therefore, be necessary to consider the question of allowing him to receive any increment on his dollar salary before it falls due.
15. If the officers of the Post Office, to whom you refer in paragraph 3 of your despatch, No. 512, were appointed to the Government service before August, 1901, they must be allowed the option of coming under the Sterling Scheme, like other officers whose posts are included in that Scheme; and, if they prefer to remain on dollar salaries, they will be entitled to receive the 25 per cent. allowance referred to in paragraphs 5 and 6 of this despatch. If they were appointed for the first time in or after that month their salaries should be fixed in sterling. This applies to all officers in a similar position.
16. Mr. Haggard, having been appointed after the beginning of August, 1901, to a post included in the Sterling Scheme, should have been appointed on a sterling salary; and he should now be brought under the Scheme, at the same rate of salary as Mr. Carpenter.
17. I take this opportunity of informing you that I agree to the proposal submitted in your despatch, No. 520, of the 25th November last,† to place Dr. Chin Hok, House Surgeon to the Tung Wah Hospital, on the permanent establishment of the Medical Department; but his salary should be fixed in sterling, for the reason given in paragraph 8 of this despatch.
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No. 128.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM to MR. CHAMBERLAIN. (Received February 18, 1903.)
[Answered by No. 129.]
(No. 18.) (Extract.)
Government House, Penang, January 20, 1903. I have the honour to enclose six copies of the Federated Malay States sterling scheme, which has been revised and published with my sanction, subject to your final approval.
2. The enclosed copies of a letter from the Resident-General and a memo- randum by his acting secretary fully explain the alterations, and I trust they will meet with your approval.
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Enclosure 1 in No. 128.
[The Sterling Scheme published on 31st of August, 1902, is hereby cancelled and the following is issued in substitution therefor.]
(H.C. 8084/1902.)
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
Sterling Scheme for Appointments open to Cadets and for Professional and Miscellaneous Appointments.
[Approved by the Secretary of State (S. of S. Despatches No. 159 of 13th June and No. 329 of 24th of October, 1902) with effect from 1st January, 1903.] 1. The appointments open to Cadets are divided into six classes carrying sterling salaries as shown in appendix A. There are, in addition, five special staff appoint- ments which may not always be filled by officers selected from the Civil Service of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, and four junior appoint- ments open to Passed Cadets. The scheme for Professional and Miscellaneous appoint- ments is as shown on appendix B.
2. The sterling rates of pay will come into force from the 1st January, 1903. Officers now in the service, whose appointments appear in the appendices, will be given six months from the 31st of August, 1902, to decide whether they will accept the sterling terms or not. Those who wish to draw sterling rates from the 1st of January, 1903, must notify their acceptance before the 15th of that month, otherwise those rates can only be drawn from the 1st of February. An officer having once made his choice will not be allowed afterwards to reconsider his decision.
3. Officers who were already on the Pensionable Establishment on the 1st August, 1901, may, on application, be granted the privileges of this scheme from the 1st January, 1903, except in those cases where the sterling salary would place an officer in a more advantageous position than one who is his senior in service. This applies particularly to the cases of those appointed as Junior Officers or Passed Cadets.
In all such cases the Government will exercise its discretion as to the transfer of officers from the appointments they hold to others of which the salaries will in no case be less than those at present drawn.
Similarly, where, as in the Public Works Department, the appointments have now been regraded, the Government will decide how far the holders of posts under the P.W.D. classification scheme, published in R.-G.O. Circular No. 19 of 1901, can be allowed to take advantage of the regraded sterling scheme.
4. Where the sterling salary of his substantive post is shown in the appendix as varying from a minimum to a maximum rate, an officer will come on to the
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