CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861 — Page 116

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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in the

year

1059

and which requins

that persons entering the fivil

Service of the Crown subsequently

to its exactment, should.

unless

has

directly appointed by the (rown, obtain a Certificate of fitness from the fivil terrie Commissioners.

necessary to revive the previously existing rystem under

rendered it

which the Student Interpreters appointed, and to establish

one based

on

were

a new

an examination

by the (irl horie Commissioners.

This

This

Office has had no be dissatisfied with the

reason to

месар

which attended the old systern

under which

many

valuable

Kervants have been introduced

into the Consular Service in China;

but when

a

new

system

was

to be adopted Lord John Russell

thought it deniable to

to apply

to

it the principle of competition

to the appointment of

as

applied Clerks in this Office.

number of

A considerable

vacance

ancies requiring to

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