1. Handwriting 2. Orthography In Accountant General's Department, Book-keeping 150 instead of Précis. II. Temporary Clerks. 3. Arithmetic 4. English Composition III. Copying Clerks. 1. Handwriting 4. Arithmetic (Elementary). 2. Orthography 3. Copying from MSS. 5. English Composition. IV. Door-keepers, Porters, and Messengers. 1. Handwriting and Ortho- 2. Arithmetic (elementary). graphy i II. Clerks in the Secretary's Office; Clerks in the Legacy Duty Office; Clerks in Offices of Receipt and Account; and II. Junior Clerks in the Solicitor's Office, London.* (t) 1. Writing from Dictation (t) 2. Arithmetic (t) 3. English Composition 4. Précis 5. Latin 100 6. The general principles of Equity, Common Law, and Conveyancing 7. The Practice of the Court of Chancery and Courts of Law. III. Extra Clerks, Copying Clerks, and Temporary Clerks. 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Ortho graphy. 2. Arithmetic (elementary). *For Clerks in the Solicitor's offices, Dublin and Edinburgh, the examination is the same as that for the Secretary's office. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES' REGISTRY. 61 IV. Second-class Assistants of Excise and Clerks in Stamp Office, Glasgow.* 1. Writing from Dictation | 2. Arithmetic. V. Stampers, Packers, Warehouse Porters, Binders, Office-keepers, Messengers, and Will Keepers or Sorters. (Same as for Clerks in Designs Registry.) Failure in any of the following subjects will not disqualify 150 4. French the candidate. 200 5. German 150 150 *The examination hitherto has not been competitive, and a large number of vacancies are filled up annually. The candidate is given six "tots," a Dictation and an Orthographical Exercise, and a paper of 39 Arithmetical questions. See Specimens. |