170. The examination for the Degree of M. D. shall be held once a year, commencing on the first Monday of July.

171. Applications for admission to this examination. must reach the Registrar not later than the 1st May preceding.

172. No Candidate shall be registered unless he have previously paid a fee of Fifty Rupees. Candidates failing to pass one examination may be admitted to subsequent examinations on payment of a like fee of Fifty Rupees on each occasion.

173. Candidates shall forward their certificates and the testimonial indicated in Bye-law 166 to the Registrar at least fourteen days before the date of examination.

174. They shall pass an examination in accordance with the following scheme :—

Candidates failing to obtain one-third of the marks in each subject, or one-half of the aggregate number, shall

not pass.

175. At the end of one week from the last day of the examination, the Examiners shall arrange in two divisions the successful Candidates in the order of merit, as ascertained by the numerical results of the examination. All Candidates who obtain 75 per cent. or more of the aggregate number of marks shall be placed in the first division. Form of Tabular Statement to be submitted by

the Examiners.

BACHELOR OF CIVIL ENGINEERING.

176. An examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Engineering shall be held at Madras once a year, commencing on the second Monday in February.

177. Candidates for the Degree of B. C. E. must have completed two years from the time of passing the First Examination in Arts either in this or one of the other Indian Universities.

REM AKS.

178. Applications for admission to this examination must reach the Registrar not later than the 1st November preceding. Each Candidate must forward with his application, a certificate of having passed the First Examination in Arts, and notify the optional subjects in which he elects to be examined.

179. No Candidate shall be registered unless he have previously paid a fee of Thirty Rupees. Candidates failing to pass one examination may be admitted to subsequent examinations on payment of a like fee of Thirty Rupees on each occasion.

180. The examination shall be conducted partly by means of printed papers and partly vivâ voce, and in respect to Surveying and Levelling it shall be practical as well as theoretical.

181. Candidates for the Degree of B. C. E. shall be examined in the following branches of knowledge; it being imperative upon Candidates to pass an examination in the first three branches, but optional with them to select either IV., V. and VI., or VII. and VIII :

I.

II.

III.

Mathematics.

Natural Philosophy.

Mensuration and Estimate-making.

IV. Surveying and Levelling.

V.

Constructive Engineering.

VI. Architectural and Topographical Drawing.
VII. Mechanical Engineering.

VIII. Machine Drawing.

Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Involution, and Evolution of Algebraical quantities.

Greatest Common Measure and Least Common Multiple.

Simple and Quadratic Equations, and questions producing them.

Surds.

Algebraic Proportion and Variation.

Permutations and Combinations.

Binomial Theorem.

Arithmetical, Geometrical, and Harmonical Progressions. Simple and Compound Interest, and Discount. Calculation and use of Logarithms.

2.-Geometry.

Euclid—Books I., II., III., IV., VI., and XI., to Proposition 21, with definitions of Book V.; also easy Deductions.

3.-Plane Trigonometry.

The solution of Plane Triangles, especially as applied in practice, and the investigation of the formule required in the several processes.

The construction of Tables of Goniometric Functions.

ii. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

(1.) Statics and Dynamics.—Treated mathematically, but without the aid of the Differential and Integral Calculus. Composition and resolution of forces in one plane. The Centre of Gravity.

The mechanical powers and their principal applications. Virtual Velocities.

Friction, and the Rigidity of Cords.

The three laws of motion, with the different measures of force, and their relation to one another.

Motion of a material particle under the action of a constant force, in free space, down an inclined plane, and in a circular arc, with the theory of the Simple Pendulum.

Unit of work; useful work of the simple machines; sources and reservoirs of force.

(2.) Hydrostatics and Pneumatics.-Treated as in the case of Statics and Dynamics.

Epuilibrium and Pressure of Fluids, elastic and non-elastic.

Specific gravity.

The application of Hydrostatic and Pneumatic principles to the examination of a Steam Engine, Barometer, Thermometer, Common Pump, Forcing Pump, Condenser, Hydraulic Press, Fire Engine, Diving Bell, and Siphon; also the general process of measuring heights by means of the Barometer.

(3.) Hydraulics.-Discharge of fluid through various orifices under varying circumstances.

Effects of Vena Contracta.

Flow of water in Rivers and Canals, and over Weirs and Calingulas.

Time of filling and emptying Locks.

iii.

MENSURATION AND ESTIMATE-MAKING.

Mensuration of Planes and Solids.

Preparation of Estimates for Roads, Canals, and Masonry work connected therewith, as well as for ordinary buildings.

iv. SURVEYING AND LEVELLING.

Surveying with the chain, with Prismatic Compass and Chain, with Theodolite and Chain and with Circumferentor and Chain.

Keeping a Field Book and Plotting.

The Theory and Practice of Levelling, including the use and adjustments of the Y Level and Troughton and