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HONG KONG CADETSHIPS,
With a view to supply the Civil Service in Hong Kong, Cadetshipe have been established, the
holders of which are required to devote themselves for a certain time after their arrival in the Colony to learning Chinese.
1. The Cadets are appointed after a competitive examination by the Civil Service Commissioners, from amongst Candidates nominated for this purpose by the Secretary of State,
2. Each Candidate shall be between the ages of 20 and 24,
3. The heads of examination are as follows
A. OBLIGATORY.
1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography.
2. Arithmetic, including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions.
3. Latin, and one of the following languages:-Greek, French, German, Italian.
4. English Composition, including Precis Writing.
5. Pure and mixed Mathematics.
B. OPTIONAL.
6. Ancient or Modern History, and Geography,
7. The Elements of Constitutional and International Law, and Political Economy.
8. Geology, Civil Engineering, and Surveying.
Every Candidate must show a competent knowledge of the first four Subjects, and rasy select any two of the Optional Subjects.
4. Each Cadet will receive a salary of 2001. per annum; half-salary to commence from the day
of leaving England, and full salary from the date of his arrival in the Colony. The cost of his passage
to the Colony will be paid, subject to the repayment hereafter mentioned (Sécs. 8. 9).
5. On the arrival of the Cadet in Hong Kong he will apply himself specially to learning Chinese.
6. While thus studying, he will be under the control and supervision of the Governor of the Colony, who will frame regulations for his hours of study and general government. Quarters, books, and teachers will be provided for him at the public expense, and be will be required to attend at the Public Offices two hours daily, in order to give him an opportunity of learning the details of public business, without interfering with his reading.
7. As soon as he is declared by a Board of Examiners to have acquired a competent knowledge of Chinese, he will be appointed a Government Interpreter, and will be temporarily employed in such of the Departments as may require his services, at a salary of 4007. per annuia, without other allowances. After two years' approved service as Interpreter, the salary will be increased to 5001. and after three years' service he will be considered eligible by the Secretary of State for promotion to the higher obfines in the Civil Service of Hong Kong
The progress of the
s of the Cadet will be tested by balf-yearly examinatious, and he will be liable to be dismissed without further pay if he does not pass his final examination (see Section 7) within three years after his arrival in the Colony, or if at any time bis progress or conduct shall be considered by the Governor and Executive Council to be so misatisfactory as to render such a course desirable. The Governor and Council will decide, having regard to the ground of dismissal, whether the Cadet shall be sent home at the public expense, or shall be left to find his own way home, or shall be, in addition, called upon to repay the cost of his passage out.
9. A bond must be entered into by the Cariet and his friends at home with the Agents-General for Crown Colonies, to secure the repayment of the cost of the passage out, in the event of his dismissal, and of its being decided by the Governor and Executive Council that such repayment shall be enforced-- and also in the event of the Cadet within four years from the date of his arrival in Hong Kong either quitting the Colony without leave, or relinquishing his appointment (except for ill health), together with a further sum of 507, for each year to repay the Colony the cost of his teaching up to his leaving.
COLONIAL OFFICE, 2nd June, 1869.
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