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shall have the same claim as a non-clerical officer to a cadetship in the Clerical Division, to be determined on the result of examinations. Any boy who may pass either the Senior or the Junior Civil Service Examination shall be given a prior claim to a cadetship.

29. Any boy who may have been in receipt of the maximum pay of his position for two years, and who cannot qualify for promotion to a class in the Non-clerical Division or to a cadetship, will be required to resign.

30. In the event of a greater number of such boys qualifying for promotion than the Department can absorb at the time, they will be placed in a supernumerary class, and receive £5 increases yearly until the pay reaches £56, or until they can be promoted.

31. Every message-boy shall be entitled to a clothing-allowance of £5 after the completion of the first year’s service, if favourably reported upon by the head of his office. Application for the allowance must be made through the head of the local office.

GENERAL.

32. A record of all officers in the Department shall be kept by the Secretary, showing therein the divisions in which such officers are respectively included, in accordance with the terms of “The Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulation Act, 1890,” and its amendments. In such record the Secretary shall include the following particulars:—

(1.) With regard to the First Division, the Non-clerical Division, and the class of telegraph message-boys, he shall state therein a general description of the several duties of the officers included in those divisions, their date of birth, length of service, salaries, and such other particulars as may be deemed necessary.

(2.) With regard to the Clerical Division, he shall state therein with respect to the officers therein included, in addition to the information as aforesaid, the nature of the work severally performed by such persons;

(3.) From time to time he shall cause entries to be made in such record of deaths, dismissals, resignations, promotions, and reductions;

(4.) In the month of April in each and every year he shall publish, under the authority of the Minister, a list of officers then employed, and the particulars with regard to such persons recorded as aforesaid, which said list shall be called “The Post and Telegraph Departmental List,” and shall be prima facie evidence of the several particulars therein set forth. Every such list shall be laid before both Houses of the General Assembly within ten days after the commencement of the first session of such Assembly held next after the said month of April.

33. Where any officer whose name appears in any such list thinks that he has been placed in a class lower than that in which, from the nature of the services he performs, he ought to have been placed, he may, at a time to be yearly appointed by the Minister, appeal to the Minister, and the appeal shall thereupon be referred to the Board of Appeal in conformity with regulations made or to be made under the authority of “The Post and Telegraph Department Act, 1894”; and after receiving the report of the Board of Appeal on such appeal, the Minister may confirm, alter, or amend the said list, which, as confirmed, altered, or amended, shall be final.

34. Any officer who desires to appeal shall do so in conformity with the regulations in the last preceding paragraph hereof mentioned.

35. No annual or other increment shall accrue to any salary until the officer in receipt of such salary has received the same for a full period of twelve calendar months, except in case of promotion, when the increment shall take effect from the day on which such promotion takes effect.

36. But the right to receive such increment in any year shall depend upon the good and diligent conduct of the officer to whose salary such increment is attached, and a certificate thereof to be given by the Secretary or the Superintendent; and if, in the opinion of the Secretary or the Superintendent, the officer is not entitled thereto, he may issue