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custody of prisoners on a complete and properly organized footing, and will render all such services as may be required by the Government in connection with the department to which he may for the time being be attached for any purpose connected with the prison discipline, organization, and superintendence in the said colony 4. The said Arthur Hume is charged with the duty of seeing that the various provisions of the law with reference to prisons and prisoners in the colony are carried out, and is from time to time to report in writing, as and when he may be required by the Government, upon the state and condition of the several prisons and the inmates thereof, and to render all assistance in his power to the Government in initiating and carrying out such measures as may be from time to time found necessary for the due and proper supervision of the prisons, and supervision, care, and treatment of prisoners, in the said colony 5. The Government will pay the cost of the passages of the said Arthur Hume and his family, consisting of not more than six adults in all, including the said Arthur Hume, from London to New Zealand, and will pay him a salary of £600 per annum, during the continuance of his engagement, such salary to commence from the date of his leaving London direct for the colony, and to be paid by such equal periodical pityments as are usual in the colony for official salaries. The Government will also pay the said Arthur Hume the fair and reasonable usual sums allowed for travelling expenses within the colony whilst engaged on the business of the Government. 6. The said Arthur Hume is no 4; to be entitled to any payments for extra services, and in the event of the Government making- him any extra payment the same is to be considered and regarded as a gratuity only 7 The said Arthur Hume is, within seven days after the expiration of each calendar month, to transmit by the most ready course to the Government a statement of all his claims and demands upon the Government for travelling and other expenses up to the end of the previous calendar month, and, if such claim be not so furnished or any item or items omitted therefrom, the said Arthur Hume shall have no claim or demand upon the Government in respect of any such claim or any omitted item or items. 8. Either party may determine and put an end to this engagement at the expiration of three years from the time when the said salary shall commence to be payable, or at any time afterwards, by giving to the other six months' previous notice in writing, signed by the party giving such notice, or by the Secretary for the time being to the Governor, if such notice shall be given to the said Arthur Hume. 9. In case this engagement shall be determined and put an end to at or before the said period of three years, other than and except as mentioned in clause 11 of these presents, the Government will pay the passage-money of the said Arthur Hume and his family (not exceeding six adults) back to England, in the event of his forthwith leaving the colony for England, but not otherwise. 10. This engagement shall cease and determine if the said Arthur Hume shall, in the opinion of the Governor, become incapacitated for the performance of his duties on account of illness or accident. 11. If the said Arthur Hume shall, at any time or times, neglect or refuse to perform, abide by, or comply with the terms of this engagement, or any duties required of him, or all or any of the orders of the Governor, or other officers for the time being duly authorized in that behalf, the Governor may, by notice in writing under the hand of his Secretary for the time being to that effect, to be given to the said Arthur Hume, immediately determine and put an end to this engagement, anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary notwithstanding. As witness the hands of the said Sir Julius Vogel, as such Agent as aforesaid only, and not so as to make himself personally liable, and of the said Arthur Hume, the day and year first above written. Arthur Hume, Captain, Witness —■ Late 79th Highlanders. W P Mallan, Surgeon, 6, Boscombe Terrace, Shepherd's Bush.
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