CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12] — Page 543

The salary to be paid to the person engaged shall be at the rate of Two thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars ($2328) per annum. He will also be allowed the sum of Two hundred and eighty-eight dollars ($288) per annum for conveyance. Half Salary will be paid during the voyage out and home again on the expiration of this engagement. Full Salary from the date of arrival in Hong Kong. The person engaged shall on arrival in Hong Kong reside where ordered and faithfully and diligently employ the whole of his time in the service of the Government as an Assistant Engineer in the Public Works Department. His duties will be the ordinary duties of an Assistant Engineer as well as any other suitable duties which the Government duly authorised Officer may call upon him to perform. He shall in all things be subservient to and obey the orders and directions of the Government and shall not directly or indirectly engage or be concerned in any other service or business whatsoever or receive commissions or profits of any kind and he shall use his utmost exertions to promote the interests of the Government.

In the event of the Government becoming desirous of determining the engagement of the person engaged at any time during the currency of the same, it shall be at liberty to do so giving him Three months' notice (signed by any authorised Officer) determinable at any period of the year or on the Government paying him Three months' Salary in lieu of such notice, and in either case, he shall be provided with free passage first Class by Steamer to England. The Government shall also provide him with a similar free passage if, by reason of ill-health not caused by impropriety of conduct, he shall under the certificate of a Medical Officer appointed for that purpose by the Government be discharged from or compelled to give up his engagement with the Government and provided he shall be desirous of returning to England. But if he shall resign his appointment from any other cause, he shall refund to the Government or to the Crown Agents for the Colonies the amount paid for his passage to the Colony and shall have no claim to a return passage. The return passage, if required, must be claimed within one calendar month.

If the person engaged shall at any time neglect or refuse or from any cause (other than illness not caused by his own impropriety of conduct) become unable to conform or comply with all or any of the provisions of this Agreement or all or any of the duties required of him or all or any of the orders or directions of the Government or its representatives, or shall otherwise directly or indirectly correspond verbally or in writing in or about the affairs of the Government with any person not in the employment of the Government, or shall put forth directly or indirectly any document or information of any kind whatever, or shall in any manner affecting the Government misconduct himself, it shall be competent for the Government to declare his employment at an end and he shall be forthwith dismissed by the Government and all rights, benefits, and advantages reserved to him by this Agreement shall cease, and he shall be liable to be called upon to repay the amount paid for his passage to the Colony.