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2.

(a)

Total Service to date of leaving

(b) Deduct total absences

(1.) 1o April 1875 to 2nd December.

Years

days 68

C

-1875 1. 188.

(11) 13. December 1877 to 74 July 1878)

3.

Period of resident service 7.

245

? 343'

?721

The law regulating the pensions of

the subordinate officers of the Police, which

to Mr. Batten's case is as

applies to Mr

Ordinance 9 of 1862.

follows:-

(a) §§X+XI constitute five-year periods of service in the Force, and allow a gratuity of 3 months pay, after each period of ~ five years service; or a

passage.

Inspector Batten received a passage home and out again at the expiration of his first period of five years service in 1874.

4.

(b) 8XII provides that in addition to the

gratuity an Inspector shall receive after

ten

years

service a pension of

of his

pension of one quarter

average pay for three

years, which,

years

and

have

after a further service of two 126 days would in Mr. Batten's case

been #2.40 a

a year.

The pension rules of the subordinate officers of the Police being framed

ow onore

j'at

Javourable terms than those of the Civil Servants generally, the regulation permitting

time

leave to count as service is

spent.

OFL

not applicable to Mr. Batten

Hence Mr. Batten has no

legal

5.

claim on Government, and any gratuity.

0.71.

granted to him must be given discretion of the Governor under His

the

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