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SPECIAL REGULATIONS (supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April REGULATIONS. 1872, and amended by subsequent Notices in the LONDON GAZETTE) respecting

OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS for the SITUATION of CLERK in the Clerks in SoSOLICITOR'S OFFICE of the TREASURY, POST OFFICE, INLAND REVENUE, and licitor's Office, CUSTOMS DEPARTMENTS.

N.B.-These Regulations are liable to alteration for future Examinations.

I. No Candidate will be eligible whose age on the first day of the examination is less than 20 or more than 30.

II. No Candidate will be eligible who has not within the last five years had at least three years experience as a solicitor, or as an articled clerk in a solicitor's office.

III. The examination will be in the following subjects, viz.:

Obligatory Subjects:

1. Handwriting and Orthography.

2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions).

3. English Composition.

4. Criminal Law, and Proceedings before Justices of the Peace.

5. Law of Evidence.

6. Common Law Procedure and Practice.

7. Elements of Conveyancing.

Optional Subjects:

8. Geography.

9. English History.

10. Latin.

11. French or German.

12. Mercantile Book-keeping.

13. Equity and Practice of the Courts.

14. Bankruptcy and Practice of the Courts.

IV. A fee of 21. will be required from each Candidate attending the examination.
Civil Service Commission, S.W.,

26th April 1878.

Treasury, &c.

SPECIAL REGULATIONS (supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April REGULATIONS. 1872, and amended by subsequent Notices in the LONDON GAZETTE) respecting

OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS for the SITUATIONS of SUPPLEMENTARY Supplementary CLERK in the SOLICITOR'S OFFICE of the TREASURY, UNPROFESSIONAL CLERK Clerks in Soliin SOLICITOR'S OFFICES of the GENERAL POST OFFICE in LONDON and citor's Office, DUBLIN; and SUPPLEMENTARY CLERK in the SOLICITOR'S OFFICE, INLAND Treasury, &c. REVENUE DEPARTMENT.

N.B.-Thes Regulations are liable to alteration for future Examinations.

I. The limits of age for these situations are 18 and 30, and Candidates must be of

the prescribed age on the first day of the examination.

II. No Candidate will be eligible who has not within the last five years served for at least two years as a clerk (not articled) in a Solicitor's Office.

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III. The examination will be in the following subjects, viz. :

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Candidates failing in any of the above-named subjects will not be eligible.

IV. A fee of 10s. will be required from each Candidate attending the examination.

Civil Service Commission,

26th April 1878.

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REGULATIONS. SPECIAL REGULATIONS (Supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April 1872, and amended by subsequent Notices in the LONDON GAZETTE) respecting OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS for INDEXING and ABRIDGING CLERKSHIPS in the PATENT OFFICE.

Indexing and
Abridging
Clerks, Patent
Office.

N.B.-These Regulations are liable to alteration.

1. The limits of age for these situations are 21 and 25, and candidates must be of the prescribed age on the first day of the competitive examination.

2. At the competitive examinations exercises will be set in the following subjects only :

1. Précis.

2. Geometry (Elementary and Practical).

3. Mechanical Drawing.

4. Mechanics and Mechanism.

5. Chemistry.

6. Electricity and Magnetism.

7. Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, and Pneumatics.

Candidates must pass to the satisfaction of the Civil Service Commissioners in one of the subjects numbered 4 and 5 according to the nature of the situation vacant, i.e., according as the duties to be performed render a knowledge of Mechanics and Mechanism or of Chemistry absolutely necessary. The remaining subjects are optional.

3. No candidate can be admitted to the competition who has not previously satisfied the Civil Service Commissioners that he possesses the requisite amount of proficiency in the following subjects:

1. Handwriting.

2. Orthography.

3. Arithmetic (to Vulgar and Decimal Fractions).

4. English Composition.

With this view, preliminary examinations in these subjects will be held at such times and places as the Commissioners may appoint.

Application for permission to attend one of these preliminary examinations must be made in the writing of the candidate, at such times and in such manner as may be fixed by the Commissioners.

4. A fee of 17. will be required from every candidate attending a preliminary examination, and a further fee of 31. from every candidate who may be admitted to the competition.

Civil Service Commission, London, S.W.,

4th May, 1878.

REGULATIONS, SPECIAL REGULATIONS (Supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April 1872, and amended by subsequent Notices in the LONDON GAZETTE,) respecting OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS for the SITUATION of THIRD CLASS CLERK in the SOLICITOR'S OFFICE of the INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT, EDINBurgh,

Clerk in Soli

citor's Office,

Inland Revenue.

N.B.-These Regulations are liable to alteration for future Examinations.

I. The limits of age for these situations are 18 and 24, and Candidates must be of the prescribed age on the first day of the examination.

II. The examination will be in the following subjects, viz. :—

1. Handwriting.

2. Orthography.

3. Arithmetic.

4. Copying MS. (to test accuracy).

5. English Composition.

6. Geography.

7. Indexing or Docketing.

8. Digesting Returns into Summaries.

9. English History.

10. Book-keeping.

11. Latin.

12. Principles of Scotch Law. [The prominent parts of the leading subjects in the treatises of Bell or Erskine.]

III. A fee of 10s. will be required from each Candidate attending the exami

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SPECIAL REGULATIONS (Supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April REGULATIONS. 1872, and amended by subsequent Notices in the LONDON GAZETTE,) respecting

OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS for the SITUATION of CLERK in the Clerks in METROPOLITAN POLICE COURTS.

N.B.-These Regulations are liable to alteration for future Examinations.

1. The limits of age for this situation are 20 and 30. Candidates must be of the prescribed age on the first day of the examination.

2. The examination will be in the following subjects; viz.:—

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("Powell's Principles and Practice of the Law of Evidence," by
Cutler and Griffin, Part I., chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 17;
Part II., chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and Part III., chapters 1, 2, 6.)

11. Book-keeping by Single Entry.

Optional:

Candidates failing in any of the above subjects will not be eligible.

1. Latin (translation into English, and Grammar).

2. French (translation from and into, and Oral Examination).
3. German (translation from and into, and Oral Examination).

4. Geography and English History.

Not more than one of these subjects can be taken up.

3. Application for permission to attend an examination must be made at such time and in such manner as the Commissioners may appoint.

4. A fee of 21. will be required from each candidate attending the examination.

Civil Service Commission,

4th July 1878.

Metropolitan
Police Courts.

SPECIAL REGULATIONS (Supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April REGULATIONS. 1872, and amended by subsequent Notices in the LONDON GAZETTE,) respecting OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS for the SITUATION of ASSISTANT Assistant SCHOOLMASTER in HER MAJESTY'S DOCKYARDS in the DEPARTMENT of the Schoolmaster ADMIRALTY. in Dockyards.

I. The limits of age for this situation are 20 and 35, and Candidates must be of the prescribed age on the first day of the examination.

II. No Candidate will be eligible who does not produce satisfactory proof of his ability and experience in teaching. Evidence on this point must be sent in at least a week before the date of the competition. If it prove primâ facie satisfactory, the Candidate will be admitted to compete, subject to such further inquiry as may be necessary. In the case of a person who has been trained in one of Her Majesty's Dockyard Schools, a certificate from the President of the Royal Naval College that the Candidate possesses the requisite practical qualifications will be regarded by the Commissioners as satisfactory evidence.

III. The examination will be in the following subjects, viz.:

1. Handwriting and Orthography.

2. Arithmetic and Mensuration.

3. Grammar and Analysis of Sentences.

4. English Composition.

5. Physical and Political Geography of the World, specially of England

and Europe.

6. English History.

REGULATIONS.

Assistant
Schoolmaster

in Dockyards.

7. Euclid (first four Books, Book VI., and the first 21 Propositions of Book XI.)

8. Algebra.

9. Plane Trigonometry.

10. Differential and Integral Calculus (elementary), and Plane Co-ordinate Geometry (elementary).

11. The elementary principles of Mechanics and Hydrostatics, not requiring the Differential Calculus.

Candidates will also be competitively examined in the following subjects; and, although it will not be necessary for each Candidate to have a knowledge of these latter subjects, a high value will be set on them.

12. Plane Trigonometry (analytical) and Spherical Trigonometry.

13. Plane Co-ordinate Geometry (more advanced), and Analytical Geometry of three dimensions.

14. Differential and Integral Calculus (more advanced), and the easier Differential Equations.

15. Higher Mechanics and Hydrostatics.

16. Elementary Chemistry and Physics.

IV. A fee of 17. will be required from each Candidate attending this examination.
Civil Service Commission,

6th July 1877.

REGULATIONS. REGULATIONS respecting appointments as STUDENT DRAGOMANS in TURKEY,

Student Dra

gomans.

PERSIA, and EGYPT.

[For these Regulations, see p. 566.]

APPENDIX III.

LIMITS OF AGE AND SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION. [Corrected up to 30th June 1878.]

GENERAL NOTICES.

1.-The Civil Service Commissioners can give no information as to salaries, duties, course of promotion, pensions, &c., except such as may be contained in published regulations and similar documents.

2. The Commissioners cannot advise candidates as to their course of reading, nor can they recommend particular tutors or places of education. Except where otherwise stated in the scheme of examination, no particular text-books are prescribed or recommended.

3. All exceptions which can be admitted to the ordinary limits of age are specified in the following pages: where no exceptions are specified, none are allowed.

4. The Commissioners cannot undertake to answer inquiries relating to cases which are not officially before them for decision, nor can they decide, except in the cases of actual candidates, questions respecting the application of the rules contained in the following pages.

5.-Particular answers cannot be given to inquiries which are answered expressly, or by implication, in published regulations and similar documents.

6. The Commissioners cannot undertake to send answers by telegraph notwithstanding that a reply may have been paid for.

7.-The Commissioners do not supply specimens of the examination papers used in any of their examinations, but copies of some of these papers are published from time to time, and may then be obtained through any bookseller. In addition, copies of certain papers are usually appended to the annual reports of the Commissioners.

8.-Notice of any Open Competitive Examinations which may be appointed to be held will be given by advertisement in some of the principal London and Provincial newspapers. The advertisements in the

London papers will usually appear on Mondays or Thursdays. The Commissioners can in no case record the names of intending candidates until a particular examination is announced, nor can they undertake to send a separate notice to any particular person.

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