CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12] — Page 247

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free passage first class shall be provided for person' engaged to Hong Kong and on the satisfactory termination of this engagement if her services shall then be dispensed with back to England and if this Agreement shall be terminated by the Government under Clause 3 the Government shall provide her with a free passage to- England provided that her conduct shall have been satisfactory during her service and the Government shall in either case pay to her half salary during the time occupied on the voyage home and in the event of her being compelled

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time during the period of this engagement to resign her appointment and return home, owing to illness (not cursed by any impropriety of conduct on her • part) and producing a Certificate from the Colonial Surgeon to that effect she shall be provided with a free passage to England....

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If the person engaged shall at any tirne neglect or refuse or from any cause (other than illness not caused by her own impropriety of conduct become unable to perform or comply with all or any of the provisions of this Agreement or all or any of the duties required of her or all or any of the orders or directions of the Government or shall in any manner misconduct herself it shall be lawful for the Government to declare her employment under this Agreement to be at an end and thereupon her engagement shall cease and this Agreement shall not have any further prospective operation or force and all rights and benefits reserved to her shall

cease but without prejudice to the enforcement of existing claims If the person engaged should fail to proceed to Hong Hong as required or within the period of five years from the date of ker arrival there either quit the service,

of the Government without leave or relinquish her appointment or be dismissed or removed from her appointment in consequence of misconduct she shall refund and repay Government or to the Crown Agents for the Colonies the amount paid for her passage to Hong Kong Provided

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alwarps that nothing herein contained shall bind or oblige the person engaged to repay such passage money if at the time she shall relinquish her appointment or quit the service of the Government she shall produce to the Government a Certificate signed by one or more duly qualified Medical Practitioners to the effect that she is unable from bodily or mental infirmity to continue in the performance of her duties..

Upon the termination of the period of five years if the conduct of the person engaged has been satisfactory and it is mutually desired she shall be placed on the permanent Civil Service of the Colony, the five years service under this Agreement counting towards leave of absence pension Vo but in such case her claim to a free return passage will cease and determine. If however her services are dispensed with except ground of misconduct she shall be provided with a free return passage to England: __

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person engaged undertakes to make no claim upon the Government in respect of any fluctuation in the value of the dollar.

The Crown Agents for the Colonies shall not be personally liable for any thing contained in this Agreement. -

Witness our hands the day and year first- above written.

Signed by

Alexander Cameron.

Maurice

(One of the Crown Agents for the

Colonies in the (5) WS James

presence of

Donoring Sheet SW.

Signed by the said

Mary Elizabeth Mead

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Of Witness.

153 M. G. Cameron

15, Mary Elizabette Mead

(Signature 5) wa C. E. Luckes houdon Hospital

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