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& unfamed cadets tract in substantii forts is greath the

deprecated, and should only be resorted to incases of extin

necessity.

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CA DECC

1902.

Hongkong, 7th. November,

I have the honour to acknowledge the

receipt of your Despatch No. 316 of the 27th. September last,

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on the subject of moluments to be drawn by Passed Cadets

when in acting appointments.

2.

I decided in May last that Unpassed Cadets

should receive their full allowance and half the salary of

the acting appointments, as Unpassed Cadets, whose services

I may add have been most valuable in the past three years,

were obliged to pursue their Chinese studies as well as per-

forming their duties in the acting appointments. Passed Cadets

are on a different footing. The appointment of a Passed Cadet

is a substantive one, and he is a member of the Civil Service

employed on general duties pending the accurrence of a vacancy.

But while under the terms of his appointment an Unpassed

Cañet is attached to a Goverment Office, where he acquires

a knowledge of his clerical duties. I do not think it could

have been intended that he should fill an acting appointment

involving responsible duties without receiving the same con- sideration as that given by the Colonial Regulations to other

Officers holding substantive appointments, and for such acting

I decided appointments I placed them on the same footing.

this point in May, 1900, when a question arose as to the pay-

-ment

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,