394 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH SEPTEMBER, 1872.
No. 167.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Revised Regulations for Hongkong Cadetships are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd September, 1872.
HONGKONG CADETSHIPS.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
With a view to supply the Civil Service in Hongkong, Cadetships have been established, the holders of which are required to devote themselves for a certain time after their arrival in the Colony to learning Chinese.
1st. The Cadets are appointed after a competitive examination by the Civil Service Commissioners, from amongst Candidates nominated for this purpose by the Secretary of State.
The Examinations for these Appointments are not held at fixed periods of time, but upon
the occurrence of vacancies in the Civil Service of Hongkong.
Applications for Nominations by the Secretary of State, proceeding from persons of whom he has no direct knowledge, should be accompanied by recommendations from persons known to him, or occupying positions of professional or other distinction.
2nd. Each Candidate shall be between the ages of 20 and 23.
3rd. The heads of examination are as follows:-
A. Obligatory.
1st. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography.
2nd. Arithmetic, including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions.
3rd. Latin, and one of the following languages:-Greek, French, German, Italian. 4th. English Composition, including Précis Writing.
5th. Pure and Mixed Mathematics.
B. Optional.
6th. Ancient or Modern History, and Geography.
7th. The Elements of Constitutional and International Law, and Political Economy. 8th. Geology, Civil Engineering, and Surveying.
Every Candidate must show a competent knowledge of the first four Subjects, and may select two of the Optional Subjects.
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4th. Each Cadet will receive a salary of $960 (about £200) per annum; half-salary to commence from the day of leaving England, and full salary from the date of his arrival in the Colony. The cost of his passage to the Colony will be paid, subject to the repayment hereafter mentioned (Secs. 8, 9).
5th. On the arrival of the Cadet in Hongkong he will apply himself specially to learning Chinese. 6th. While thus studying, he will be under the control and supervision of the Governor of the Colony, who will frame regulations for his hours of study and general government. Quarters, books, and teachers will be provided for him at the public expense, and he will be required to attend at the Public Offices two hours daily, in order to give him an opportunity of learning the details of public business, without interfering with his reading.
7th. As soon as he is declared by a Board of Examiners to have acquired a competent knowledge of Chinese, he will be appointed a Government Interpreter, and will be temporarily employed in such of the Departments as may require his services, at a salary of $1,920 (about £400) per annum, without other allowances. After two years' approved service as Interpreter, the salary will be increased to $2,400 (about £500); and after three years' service he will be considered eligible by the Secretary of State for promotion to the higher offices in the Civil Service of Hongkong.
8th. The progress of the Cadet will be tested by half-yearly examinations, and he will be liable to be dismissed without further pay, if he does not pass his final examination (see Section 7) within three years after his arrival in the Colony, or if, at any time his progress or conduct shall be considered by the Governor and Executive Council to be so unsatisfactory as to render such a course desirable.- The Governor and Council will decide, having regard to the ground of dismissal, whether the Cadet shall be sent home at the public expense, or shall be left to find his own way home, or shall be, in addition, called upon to repay the cost of his passage out.
9th. A Bond must be entered into by the Cadet and his friends at home with the Crown Agents for the Colonies to secure the repayment of the cost of the passage out, in the event of his dismissal and of its being decided by the Governor and Executive Council that such repayment shall be enforced-and also in the event of the Cadet within four years from the date of his arrival in Hongkong either quitting the Colony without leave or relinquishing his appointment (except for ill health), together with a further sum of £50 for each year to repay the Colony the cost of his teaching, up to his leaving.
Colonial Office, June 1, 1872.
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