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PARTICULARS OF THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR OF WATER POLICE, HONGKONG.

I. Married quarters with fuel and light will be provided.

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II. The pay is $1,632 per annum, in monthly payments of $136 in addition to which exchange compensation will be given, making half the officer's pay up to a sterling value of 3/- to the dollar.

Note. The exchange value of the dollar is variable. The market rate of exchange is at the present time 2/1 and the Government will recognize no claim in respect of fluctuations in the value of the dollar beyond the compensation above specified. At the present rate of exchange, the exchange compensation amounts to about 22 per cent of the salary.

III. Full pay will be drawn from the date of embarkation.

IV. A bounty of £15 will be paid on enlistment.

V. The officer is allowed to remit home, through the Government, any sum not exceeding his half-pay, but only at the rate of exchange.

VI. The engagement will be for five years only. Subject to the approval of the Captain Superintendent of Police and of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, he can re-engage for a further term of five years.

VII. At the expiration of each of these terms of five years service he becomes entitled to a second class return passage, for himself and family not exceeding 4 in number.

(a) And he can apply through the Captain Superintendent of Police for per- mission to return to the service within a period not exceeding wine months. (b) Should this application be approved, he will receive half-pay during his

absence, and return passages to the Colony as above.

(c) On his return he shall be reinstated in his position in the Force, VIII. Should he not take leave but remain in the Colony at the expiration of each or either of these two terms of five years' service, he will receive a sum equal to three months' pay of his substantive rank by way of bonus.

IX. Should he be allowed to continue in the Force on the completion of his second term of service, he may, on his final retirement, be allowed a pension according to regulations from time to time issued by the Colonial Government with the approval of the Secretary of State. Under the regulations recently issued, no pension will be granted for less than fifteen years' service, nor until the officer has reached the age of 45 years except in case of retirement on the ground of ill-health.

X. Should the officer be compelled to retire, through ill-health before ten years a gratuity of one month's pay for each years service may be granted.