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"the grant of the exchange compensation allowance to officers of this Government

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your instructions.

I have the honour to be,

Sir.

Your Most Obedient Humble Servant,

Mack

Major General, Administering the Govern

Enclosure

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INSTRUCTIONS

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17 CT 08

sued by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government with

regard to the payment of Exchange Compensation Allowance.

1. The allowance to be paid shall be known as "Exchange Compensation Allowance." It will be granted to all Officers of Government whose domicile is a country having a gold standard, to compensate them for the fall in the value of the silver dollar.

2. Every such Officer while in the Colony, or on vacation, leave or half-pay leace in a country having a silver standard, will be allowed to draw as exchange compensation allowance the difference between one-half of the actual salary drawn by him at the market rate as fixed in No. 5 of these instructions and one-half of such salary at a privilege rate of 3/- to the dollar.

3. In case of doubt and for the purposes of these instructions, the Officer Administering the Govern- meat will decide whether an Officer is or is not domiciled in a country having a gold standard.

4. The allowance will be calculated in the form of a percentage on the half salary equal to the proportion by which the privilege rate exceeds the market rate. For instance, if the market rate is 2/3, the difference between this and the privilego rate (3/-) is equivalent to a percentage of 334 on the market rate. The allowance payable would, therefore, be granted at 16% %% on the full salary.

5. This percentage will be calculated every month from the rate fixed as the market rate, which will approximately be the average Hongkong demand rate from the 15th of the preceding month to the 15th of the month for which salary is to be paid (e.g., the allowance for September would be, calculated on the average rate during the month enling 15th September). In fixing the rate no fraction less than a farthing will be regarded.

6. The allowance will be paid only on salaries aud allowances in the nature of salaries.

7. The value of free quarters, house rent in lieu of quarters, chair allowance, conveyance allowance, horse allowance, ration allowance, (except as otherwise provided in these instructions), allow- ances received by members of the Fire Brigade, special allowances to Detectives and allowances to European Police at out-stations are not allowances in the nature of salary.

8. Ration allowances granted to European Police Constables, Sergeants and Inspectors, and

"language" allowances are allowances in the nature of salary.

9. The allowance will be drawn regularly with salary in the same manner as salary is drawn, and

will be charged to the same head as salary, but under a separate detail.

10. An officer upon the permanent establishment, who acts in a post higher than his own permanent appointment, will draw exchange compensation allowance in proportion to the total salary he receives in respect of his substantive and of his acting appointment.

11. Exchange compensation allowance will be paid on half the actual salary drawn by an Officer returning from leave for the period between the date when he ceases to draw pay in sterling through the Crown Agents and the late when he begins to draw full pay in the Colony.

12. Exchange compensation allowance will not be granted in respect of salaries paid out of an open

vole except with the consent of the Officer Administering the Government in Council.

13. Exchange compensation allowance will not be granted to an Officer engaged under an agreement which provides that he shall make no daim on the Government in consequence of any fall in the value of the dollar.

14. Exchange compensation allowance will not be grantel to any person not being a Governinent

Officer engaged by the Government to act in the place of a Government Officer.

15. Officers serving under a written agreement and for a fixed period will not (subject to the terms of such agreement) be granted exchange compensation allowance during the period of such service. If, however, at the expiration or upon the determination of the said agreement such Officers

are transferred to the permanent establishment, they will be granted the allowance as from the date of the transfer. This instruction shall not apply to members of the Police Force. 16. These instructions shall come into force on the 1st October, 1898.