1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Copying from MSS. 3. Arithmetic (elementary). METROPOLIS ROADS COMMISSION. METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS OFFICE. METROPOLITAN POLICE COURTS. 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (first four rules, with Reduction and Proportion). 3. English Composition. 4. Either (a) Geography; METROPOLITAN 1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions.) 3. Book-keeping. (b) English History (c) Latin, or a modern foreign Language. * 5. Criminal Law (if the Candidate be a Certificated Attorney, or Justices' Clerk at Petty Sessions.) POLICE OFFICE. 4. English Composition. 5. English Geography. 6. History of the British Empire. 7. French.* *In examinations which are not competitive, the exercises in Languages are restricted to translation. MINT-continued. Junior Assayers, Junior Superintendents in the Melting and Coining Rooms, and others belonging to the same class.* 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. English Composition. *These must also possess the requisite technical knowledge. 1. Exercises designed to test Hand writing and Orthography. 2. Copying from MSS. 3. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 4. Geography. 5. History. PARLIAMENT OFFICE. Clerks and Temporary Clerks. 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. The power of accurate comparison of Copies with Originals. 3. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 4. English Composition. 5. History of England and of the Constitution. 6. Latin or French Translation. In case of a competition after the Candidates have passed the preliminary examination as above, one subject out of each of the following groups : + In examinations which are not competitive, the exercises in Languages are restricted to "Candidates for clerkships of the superior class should be examined with a view to ascertain that they have received a liberal education and are personally intelligent. We do not desire to lay down any minute rules as to the manner of this examination, which may, to a certain extent, be made to depend upon the nature of the candidate's previous studies."-(Viscount Courtenay to the Civil Service Commissioners.) POST OFFICE. Clerks in the Solicitor's Office (3rd Class.) 1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including (Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. English Composition. 4. General Principles of Equity and Common Law. 5. Conveyancing. Clerks, Supplementary Clerks, and Temporary Extra Clerks, in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, Surveyor's Stationary Clerks, and Clerks in the Solicitor's Office (4th Class.) 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Reduction, Rule of Three, and Practice). Clerks in Country Offices 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (elementary). Letter Carriers, Auxiliary Letter Carriers, and Mail Guards.* 1. Writing from Dictation. The examination for Mail Guards is to be the same as that for Letter Carriers, although educational acquirements are considered of less consequence than activity. +In examinations which are not competitive, the exercises in Languages are restricted to translation. PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE. Supplemental Clerks. 1. Exercises in Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Accuracy in copying French and English. 3. Arithmetic (elementary). 4. English Composition. PRIVY SEAL OFFICE. PUBLIC WORKS LOAN OFFICE. 1. Exercises designed to test Hand- 3. Arithmetic (including Vulgar writing and Orthography. 2. Copying from MSS. and Decimal Fractions). QUEEN'S PRISON. 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. English Composition. QUEEN'S REMEMBRANCER'S OFFICE, RECORD OFFICE. 1. Exercises designed to test Hand- 3. Book-keeping by Single Entry. 4. Précis. 6. History of England, REFORMATORIES, OFFICE OF INSPECTOR OF. 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. SCIENCE AND ART, Ordinary Clerks 1. Writing from Dietation. 2. Transcribing 3. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 4. Précis.. 5. Geography. 6. Translation from one Ancient or Modern Foreign Language, 2. Arithmetic (elementary). DEPARTMENT OF. 1. Writing from- Dictation. 3. Arithmetic (the first four rulės, with Practice and the Rule of Three). 4. Grammatical structure of sentences of a simple character. 1. Exercises designed to test Hand- 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar writing and Orthography. Fractions). 3. English Composition.. SEAMEN'S REGISTRY OFFICE. (The same as for "Supplementary Clerks" in the Board of Trade.) "My Lords would also be glad to receive a report of the Candidate's proficiency in any other subject or subjects, to be selected by him, in which he may desire to be examined."(James Booth, Esq., to the Civil Service Commissioners.) Establishment Clerks TREASURY. 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. Précis. 5. History of England. 6. First Three Books of Euclid. + On account of the peculiar knowledge required from Candidates for these Clerkships, "it has for the present been decided that Non-commissioned Officers from the Royal Artillery and Royal Sappers and Miners alone should be admitted as competitors.' *In examinations which are not competitive, the exercises in Languages are restricted to translation. |