CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 145

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?rative

Allowance to Officers who have served

fifteen years on the temporary establish

ment.

bxisting clains.

2. Subject as aforesaid, every public Officer (other than a Judge of the Supreme Court) who, having been in the service of the Crown elsewhere than in the Colony, is transferred from such service to the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, and whose aggregate service under the Crown in the Colony and elsewhere would have entitled hin, had it been wholly in the Colony, to pension or retiring allowance under this Minute.. shall, on his retirement from the service of the Colony, if lie at the same time retires fro the service of the Crown, and if he had served for a period of at least twelve months the Colony, be entitled to a pension at the rate of one seven-hundred-and-twentieth the amount of his annual salary at the date of such retirement for each calendar month of his service in the Colony, and in every such case there may be added, at the discretion of the Governor in Council, in computing the period of the retiring Officer's service in the Colony, a number of months not exceeding:----

(a.) One-third of the aggregate of his service elsewhere than in the Colony.

nor

(b.) Two-thirds of his service in the department or Colony from which he was

so transferred; nor

(c) in any case eighty-four months.

No. 15.

In the case of an Officer who is not qualified for a pension or retiring allowance under this Minute, but has continuously served on the Temporary Establishment of tha Colony for fifteen years or upwards, and is at the date of his retirement in receipt of a salary exceeding $240 per annum, a monthly allowance may be granted to such Officer not exceeding three-fourths of the pension to which he would have been entitled bad he been employed on the Fixed Establishment, or in lieu of such allowance there may be paid to him, with the approval of the Secretary of State, a capital sum equal to the amount of sixty of such monthly payments, but no such capital sum shall be paid in any case of retirement on the ground of ill-health, and in the case of such an officer whose salary does not exceed $240 per annu a gratuity may be granted as under Clause 1, paragraph 2.

No. 16.

Nothing contained in this Minute shall interfere with the pension rights of persons who entered the service of the Colony before the date of the Minute, or shall restrict or diminish any superannuation allowance, compensation, or gratuity which, if this Minute had not been issued, might have been granted to any such person, but except as aforesaid, the provisious of the Minute shall apply as well to persoùs who have already enteral the Public Service as to those who may hereafter enter the Public Service of Hongkong.

Enclosure 2.

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List of Officers

chunveyor General As + Surveyor General Priene Judge Colonial Chaplain

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Colonial Surgeon

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REC?

REGE 12 MAR 29

Minute by the Governor dated 3. September, 186/4

attached.

Superintendent of Civil Hospital surgeon of Look Hospital

beistant Engineer

Land Surveyor

danitury Surmeyer

nepector of Live Stook_ being a loberinary

curgeon .