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stated that the Directors & the Exec Cel

unanmandy agreed to

nandy agreed to the taking

of

:

onver

The subsequent

the Fund by

was by they the questions werent has dealt with the questions whether

came

the new

chiefly

Ceylon tables might without undue mak be adapted in Hongkong, & whether the practice peculiar to Hongkong, of ad- mitting bhinese to the Fund affected the Fund seriously

one

way

or the other.

This report does not clear up these question very completely, but I think it

is

sufficie to justify (a) our

Kongkong the same

the new

tables

Ao

grving

Strants, 1.0.

beylon tables; & (b) continuing the

rule of admitting Chinese.

There is

some doubt.

one point however

wh. I feel

blause 19 of the Longkg. Pension

Mite allows commutation of pension at 5 you purchase with the provis's that commutation shall not ordinarily be

of retirement on

allavi

hyukth

14

cade

This special rule

va

Kangkong mainly to meet the

allowed

Lame

of

in bhana

to live at places now

bhinese going

of pension wd be difficult where paymnt of pension wo

impracticable.

bhina

&

A somewhat similar provision has

23 of the

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A

be inserted in a. Andce. 15. 1900. to provide for the commutation of widow. pensions when they rende

or in other countries where payment ro

The report (and. 2. in impracticable.

14147/99) that payment of pension in such places

mool frequently impracticable.

90 yo

as China Ar

In per 3 of 10913/03 is is stated that commutation had hitherto been

allowed

under this clause but in the

A

Yes Br

to retain

P. S. to end. I in 6604/04 the Directors deare

the provision as to arise.

ame

likely

the Fund being young not many???

477

pensions have at present accoued, & cases naturally may arise in the future /

In the present br. Mr Young gives on wh such cominestation

a

table

not in

is

may properly be based & adds the suggestion that commutation old ordin- anity be refused where the widow

a state of average health, which suggestion corresponds with the proviss to the commutation clause of the Pension Minite referred to above.

But it previously escaped our

notice that

on

ne.

а

widows pension clases

1. marriage (1.25 of Ord 15 of 1900) commutation of her si aron is aberously

disadvantageons to the favs if the

is

AL-

young

widow without

any

children, & remarries shortly after. having her pension commuted.

On the other hand. if

allow commutation we rem

we do not

some rick

& alar

f

of impersonation in case of widows going to the interior of China, the difformity concealment of remarriage I think we and, leave the commut- ation clause as it stands for the present but point out these difficulties to the

ask whether there Gov.,

probability

Y

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of large proportion of widows going

away to China & Some light may

claming commutation,

be thrown on this point

if they will state how frequently similar

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