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person engaged with a free first class passage to England provided his conduct shall have been satisfactory during

his service and shall also pay to him half salary during

the time occupied on the voyage home and in the event of

the person engaged being compelled at any time during the

period of three years to resign his appointment and return

to England on account of illness not caused by any impro-

priety of conduct on his part and producing a certificate

from the Colonial Surgeon to that effect he shall be pro-

vided with a free first class passage to England.

6. If the person engaged shall at any time ne-

glect or refuse or from any cause (other than illness not

caused by his own impropriety of conduct) become unable

to perform or comply with all or any of the orders or di-

rections of the Government or its representatives or shall

in any manner misconduct himself it shall be lawful for

the Government to declare the employment of the person en-

gazed under this Agreement to be at an end and thereupon

his engagement shall cease and this Agreement shall not

have any further prospective operation or force and all

rights and benefits reserved to him shall cease but without

prejudice to the enforcement of existing claims.

7. The person engaged agrees to make no claim

upon the Government in respect of the fluctuations in the

value of the dollar.

8. The claim for pessage under clause must be

made within two months of the expiration or soonerdeter-

mination of this Agreement.