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. :

("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 Engiand

and Europe.

6. English History.

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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 11. will be required from each Candidate attending this examination.
Civil Service Commission,

6th July 1877.

REGULATIONS. REGULATIONs respecting appointments as STUDENT DRAGOMANS in TURKEY,

PERSIA, and EGYPT.

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[For these Regulations, see p. 566.]

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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.

EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS, &c.

[SCH. A.] Situations thus marked are included in "Schedule A." of the Order in Council of June 4, 1870, and are therefore open to competition under regulations framed or to be framed, in pursuance of Clause V. of that Order, by the Civil Service Commissioners, with the approval of the Lords of the Treasury. The "General Regulations" printed at p. 131 apply to all such competitions.

[O. C.] Situations thus marked are open to competition, not under the clause above mentioned, but by arrangement with the authorities of the Departments to which they belong. Such competitions are not subject to the "General Regulations."

[L. C.] Situations thus marked are filled by "limited competition" among candidates nominated by the heads of the Departments to which they belong.

[N.] Situations thus marked are usually filled by nomination, subject to a qualifying examination only, but they may be offered for competition at the discretion of the head of the Department.

[N. Cl. vii.] For situations thus marked certificates are granted under Clause VII. of the Order in Council of the 4th June 1870, which empowers the Commissioners to dispense with examination evidence satisfactory to them that the candidate possesses the requisite qualifications.

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NOTE.-Some situations for which separate schemes of examination are here set down will probably be filled hereafter by clerks of the "Lower Divisien." See clauses 1-4 of the Order in Council of 12th February 1876.

SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION AND LIMITS OF AGE.

In all cases where not otherwise ordered, candidates are required to be of the prescribed age on the first day of their examination. The manner in which the limits of age are understood by the Civil Service Commissioners is shown by the following example:

If the rule is that persons must be between 17 and 20 years of age on the 1st of January in any year, a candidate born on the 1st January would be admitted on the 17th, and also on the 20th anniversary of his birth, but not on the day preceding the former, nor on the day succeeding the latter of these anniversaries.

• By the 10th of the General Regulations (see p. 131) it is provided that in reckoning age for competition the following allowances will be made, viz., (1) members of the military and naval services (whether commissioned or non-commissioned) may deduct from their actual age any time during which they have served; (2) persons who have served for two full consecutive years (a) in any Civil situation to which they were admitted with the certificate of the Civil Service Commissioners, (b) in the Royal Irish Constabulary, or (c) as registered writers in connexion with the Civil Service, may deduct from their actual age any time not exceeding five years which they may have spent in such service.

† The following is a list of departments to which Class I. clerks have been assigned:-Civil Service Commission; Colonial Office; Ecclesiastical Commission; India Office (Correspondence Department): Lunacy Commission; Patent Office; Post Office (Secretary's Office, Grade I.); Record Office, England; Record Office, Ireland; Treasury; Inland Revenue (Assistant Surveyor of Taxes).