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to those officers who have taken up their residence in an
Asiatic country after retirement.
10.
Your petitioner also respectfully submits that inasmuch as
many officers in the service of the Hongkong Government, and
are entitled to be paid pensions in sterling, upon retirement,
wheresoever they may choose to raside, it would be unreasonable
and illogical to insist upon other officers domiciled in Great
Britain being paid pensions, upon retirement, at the market rate
of exchange while elsewhere than in England, although such
officers had been in receipt of salaries in dollars at a fixed
rate of exchange greater than the market rate. Your petitioner
is unable to believe that it can be the intention of the
Government to compal, or to induce, those officers who joined
the service many years ago and were in receipt of dollar
salaries to leave the Colony immediately after retirement,
while encouraging those officers who have more recently joined
the service, or who are in receipt of sterling salaries, to
resida wherever they please after retirement in years to come.
11.
Your petitioner further respectfully submits that, upon the
retirement of a Government servant who has been sent from
England to the Colony of Hongkong, and to whom a pension has
been granted in the Colony after a long period of service, such
person is justified in expecting that his passage back to
England will be paid by the Government of the Colony, and that
it shall not be rendered difficult or impossible for him to
proceed to England by reason of the fact that his passage money
mist be found by himself.
Your patitioner therefore humbly prays that
your Lordship will be pleased to direct that
your petitioner's pension panding his
departure from the Colony may be paid to him
at the rate of 38.8d or of 38. to the
dollar; and that his passage to England may
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