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Arithmetic, or must produce other such evidence as shall 

 satisfy the Government of his general fitness and ability 

 in English. 



(e.) Physical Fitness. — " Each selected candidate must produce 

 a certificate by the proper Medical Officer of his physical 

 fitness. 



3. " Selected candidates will be apprenticed to the business of 



tropical horticulture and economic botany and agriculture. 



4. " Each apprentice will be required to sign indentures with 



two sureties in the sum of £250 binding him as an appren- 

 tice for four years, and further binding him after the comple- 

 tion of his apprenticeship to serve the Government of the 

 Gold Coast Colony at any botanical station or experimental 

 farmer garden for 7 years as a garden assistant under the re- 

 gulations in force for the time being, as to pay, promotion 

 and leave 



5. " An apprentice will be required to provide himself at his own 



expense and to renew from time to time as required, with 

 the following outfit 



6. Apprentices will be sent to Jamaica to undergo training at 

 the Hope Gardens and afterwards at the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew. A second class passage will be provided by the Govern- 

 ment of the Gold'^^'oast. 



7. " During the period of their residence in Jamaica or at Kew, 



they will be required to attend diligently to the work allot- 

 ted to them, and to obey all lawful commands of their supe- 

 rior officers. Half yearly reports of their conduct and pro- 

 gress will be obtained from the Government of Jamaica and 

 the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



8. " A sum of £ a year will be allowed for the board, lodging 



and training of each apprentice during his training, and the 

 proper authority will decide where apprentices shall board 

 and what proportion of the allowance shall be paid for board 

 and lodging, and what sum shall be allowed for pocket money 

 and maintenance of stock of clothing subject to good beha- 

 viour. Necessary supplies of clothing in Jamaica will be 

 charged as an advance against the first year's salary of the 

 apprentice on h's return to the Colony. . . 



10. " Upon the expiration of the course of training and upon the 

 receipt of a satisfactory certificate of conduct and proved 

 ability from the authorities at Kew, the apprentice will be 

 sent back to the Gold Coast Colony, a second class passage 

 being provided by the Government. 



11. *' If in consequence of idleness, disobedience, insubordination 

 or other misconduct of an apprentice, the Government of 

 Jamaica shall decide that he is unfit to remain at a Govern- 

 ment establishment to be trained, he may be sent back to the 

 Colony at any time, and in that case the cost of his passage 

 both ways, and the aggregate sum paid for his maintenance 

 under clause 8 above will be recoverd from his sureties. 



12. Upon his return to the Gold Ooast Colony with a favourable 

 report and certificate of capacity from the authorities at Kew, 



