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the vacant post of Junior Sorter in the Post Office from the 24th ultimo, -vice Francis del Aguila convicted of stealing letters.

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The salary of the Office is four hundred and eighty (#480 dollars per annum.

The particulars of the office are forwarded herewith.

I have the honour to be My Lord, Your Lordship's obedient Servant, The Officer Administering the Government.

March 18.

PARTICULARS of the Office now vacant at the General Post Office, in the Colony of Hongkong.

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Duties of Junior Clerk Sorting and making up of mails, assisting in Money Order Office and general clerical work, Letter Books &c. Qualifications required for their performance. Good handwriting, knowledge of Indian languages, Geography, Intelligence- Salary and emoluments, and whether secured by a permanent law. $480 per annum, Provisional & Supplementary Other circumstances affecting the sale of the office. None Nature, number, and amount of securities required, and mode of giving them. None Whether any, and if any, what provision is made from public funds for the passage from this country, or elsewhere, of the person sent out to fill the office. No special Act Acts or Ordinances making provision respecting any of the above matters, and especially respecting the permanency of the emoluments, and the particulars of the security required, with references to the sections in which such provision is made. None I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "Fanshes" to "Francis", "Boutie" to likely be part of "Duties", "Gumpmary" to "Supplementary", "fale" to "sale", "Bous" to "person"). 2. Fixed spacing issues and removed extra spaces. 3. Rejoined broken sentences and reformatted the text into proper paragraphs and a table using HTML as per the instructions. 4. Ensured that the file references are formatted correctly without spaces inside parentheses (though there were none in this text). 5. Preserved the original "Page" markers if they were present, but there were none in this text. 6. Reordered the text from the "General Post Office" section into a table format for better readability. 7. Removed the non-relevant or non-ASCII character ("હરે") as it seemed out of context and not part of the main document content. If it was part of the original scan, it should be kept; however, given the context, it appears to be an anomaly.