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Transmitting Minute
MINUTE.
BY THE GOVERNOR.
1. Under instructions from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State, His Excellency The Governor is pleased to direct that the following regulations respecting allowances for passages to Europe, to the Public Servants of this Colony be published for General informa-
tion.
2. Any Public Officer who shall have resided in the Colony for six years shall be enti- tled, when proceeding to Europe, to an allowance for himself and his family, not exceeding five in all, of one third of the passage money both going and coming. And for every suc ceeding six years' residence completed by such Officer a similar allowance shall be made.
3. Any Officer who, in consequence of ill health or other cause, may proceed to Europe before completing a residence of six years, shall not be entitled to any allowance for passage, but on his return to the Colony his previous residence, if necessary, will be allowed to count toward an allowance, on his next returning to Europe.
4. Every payment in virtue of this Minute must be made in the Colony, that for the homeward passage before starting, and that for the return passage to Hongkong on arrival.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd May, 1862.
W. II. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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