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Payment for entertainment in His Majesty's ships is to be calculated according to the dates of the first and last dinners taken on board.
118. When a Governor or other publie officer is proceeding in a ship of war on a tour of inspection which requires him to disembark at various ports, the higher rate per diem will in general only be paid for the seven days' entertainment following his first embarkation. If there are special reasons for repeating this higher rate, it must form a subject of special representation to the Secretary of State before it is made.
119. When a Governor or other public officer disembarks for the purpose of performing bonâ-fide public service, and has not been able to give the Captain or Commanding Officer beforehand such information as to the days on which he will be absent from the Ship as will prevent expense in preparing for his entertainment on those days, one-half of the rates of allowance above authorised will be payable in respect of such absence, and each day in respect of which such half rates are paid will be counted as a full day for the purpose of computing the seven or fourteen days referred to in the preceding regulations,
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120. When a Governor or other public officer who is entitled to conveyance at the expense of the Imperial Treasury has to obtain passages in mail packets or private ships, it will be necessary that certified statements of the expenses and of the dates at which they were incurred should be sent without delay to the Secretary of State, supported by such vouchers as can reasonably be procured. Evidence of the ordinary kind,. reference to a tariff (if any) or the certificate of two merchants, should as a rule be forwarded, that the rate of charge is usual or reasonable. The statements of officers other than the Governor must bear his countersignature. The expenditure will be subject to review, and if necessary to disallowance, by the Secretary of State; and it will be desirable, though not indispensable, that his sanction should be obtained before bills be drawn for the sums spent. Such bills should be drawn on the Paymaster-General, at not less than ten days' sight, and an immediate and direct advice should in each case be sent to the Secretary of State.
121. On appointment to an office the salary of which does not exceed £500 per annum, the officer selected will be entitled, if allowed by local law or regulation, to a free passage from this country from Colonial funds for himself and for his wife and children not exceeding four persons besides himself, if they accompany him or follow him within twelve months. The person so appointed will be required to execute an agreement in the form inserted in appendix 4.
When an officer is transferred from one Colony to another, he will be entitled to free passages by the cheapest and most direct route under similar conditions,
No outfit is allowed on any occasion.
$10. Leave and Passage Rules in West Africa.
122 (a.) Subject to the necessities of the Service, European officers, that is to say, officers who were not themselves born in West Africa and neither of whose parents was born there, may, after every tour of 12 consecutive months of residential service, be granted vacation leave with full pay for two calendar months plus the time necessarily taken on the journey to England; and, if specially detained by the Governor on public grounds after the completion of a tour of service, they may be granted vacation leave for ten days more with full pay in respect of each calendar month that they may have been detained, but no additional leave will be granted in respect of any fraction of a month.
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(b.) In the case of officers who are returning to West Africa, there may be added to their vacation leave a further period of leave with full pay, known as leave," for two calendar months plus the time necessarily taken on the journey from England. Officers to whom return leave is granted will be required to sign an agreement to the effect that, in the event of their failing to return to the Colony or Protectorate they will, if called upon to do so, refund the amount of any pay drawu in respect of such leave.
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123.-(a) Officers invalided before completing a tour of service may be granted sick leave with full pay for the time necessarily taken on the journey to England plus five days in respect of each completed calendar month of residential service.
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(b) In addition to the sick leave which may be granted under the foregoing rule, officers returning to West Africa may be granted "return sick leave with full pay for five days more (taking ten days in all), in respect of each completed calendar month of residential service plus the time necessarily taken on the journey from England, subject to the same conditions with regard to repayment and date of embarkation as return leave.
124. No extension of vacation leave or sick leave will be granted with full pay, but in exceptional circumstances, such as continued ill-health, officers who are not returning may be granted an extension of leave with half pay for any period not exceeding four calendar months, at the discretion of the Secretary of State.
125. Return leave or return sick leave may be extended with half pay on the ground of ill-health for any period not exceeding four calendar months; or with full pay the officer is detained in England by the Secretary of State on public grounds.
126. Any extension of leave, however short, which may be granted on any other grounds than those mentioned in the two foregoing regulations must be without pay.
127. An officer returning to West Africa will be required to embark by the first steamer leaving England after the date on which his leave of absence expires, and will be allowed pay at the rate which he is then drawing for any days which may clapse between the expiration of his leave and the departure of the steamer; provided that, if there is a later steamer which is timed to arrive at his destination before the first one, he will be required to proceed by the later one. Extensions of leave will date from the expiration of the original leave, and not from the day on which the officer would have had to embark if his leave had not been extended.
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128. If invalided out of the Colony, but not to Europe, an officer may either draw
and pay pay all his own expenses or draw half pay and have the cost of his passages paid by the Government, as the Governor may decide; and in such cases (that is to if the officer does not visit Europe) he will not be required to begin a new tour
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of service on his return, but the two periods of service will be regarded as consecutive Leave granted under this rule should not exceed three months, and
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must be reported to the Secretary of State.
129. Officers desiring leave, on the ground of "urgent private affairs," before completing a tour of residential service, may, if specially recommended by the Governor, be allowed leave without pay, or if they have completed six months of residential service, leave with half pay, at the discretion of the Secretary of State; but such leave must in no case exceed four months, inclusive of the time taken on the journeys. Officers to whom leave is granted under this regulation commence a fresh tour of service on their return to duty.
130.-(a) Every officer before applying for permission to proceed on leave of absence will obtain from the medical officer of his station a certificate as to his state of health, and, in case he is not in good health, the certificate must contain a recommendation as to the course he should pursue on his arrival in the United Kingdom, and must be accompanied by the notes of the case. He will forward these papers to the Governor through the channel when applying for leave of absence, and they will be enclosed
proper in the despatch notifying to the Secretary of State the leave of absence which has been granted.
(b) When the officer arrives in the United Kingdom he will receive instructions to present himself to one of the medical advisers of the Colonial Office if that course is recommended by the local medical officer, and in any case he will be required to show that the recommendations of the local medical officer are being carried out.
(c) If an officer falls ill so as to require medical attendance during the voyage home or during his leave of absence and remains ill for a week, he will report the fact to the Colonial Office and will send a fortnightly report from his medical attendant as long as he remains under his care.