TWENTY-FIRST REPORT

OF

HER MAJESTY'S

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS,

TOGETHER WITH

APPENDICES.

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.

PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,

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1900

CONTENTS.

TWENTY-FIRST REPORT -

APPENDIX I.-ORDERS OF HER MAJESTY IN COUNCIL -

APPENDIX III.-Limits of Age and Subjects of Examination

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iii

23

APPENDIX IV.-Statistical Tables, &c. relating to the Home Civil

Service

145

225

277

APPENDIX V.-Military Entrance Examinations

APPENDIX VI.-Civil Service of India

APPENDIX VII.-Specimens of Examination Papers, Home Civil

Service, 1876

APPENDIX VIII-Correspondence relating to the Home Civil

Service, to Military Entrance Examinations, and to the India

Civil Service-

471

573

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,

WE, Your Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners, humbly offer to Your Majesty this our Twenty-first Report.

The statistical tables appended to the Report present in detail an account of the examinations held during the year 1876.

The total number of cases dealt with was 14,362,* which may be thus distributed :—

I. Cases falling within the provisions of the
Order in Council of June 4th, 1870
II. Cases not falling within the provisions of
this Order, viz. :—

For Home Services
For Indian Services
For Military Services -

TWENTY-FIRST REPORT.

14,362

The following statement shows in a summary form the particulars of the 11,396 Home Civil Service cases dealt with under the Order in Council in 1876, as compared with the 12,174 cases similarly dealt with in 1875 :—

Total

771
472 2,966
1,723

1875.

4,646

1,948

196

121

117

2,667

393

307

1,779

11,396

12,174

1876.

5,117

1,024

130

149

102

2,485

316

331

1,742

11,396

In these and similar statements a candidate who appeared twice (or more) is counted as two (or more) candidates.

41552.

a 2

The principal competitions held during the year 1876, were as follows:

It will be seen that during the year 1876 only one competition was held "under Regulations I." for Clerkships of the Higher Division in the Civil Service, being the fourth since the date at which the Regulations were framed, viz., December 1870. In the spring of 1877, however, a fifth competition took place, of which it may be desirable here to give some particulars.

Early in the month of February it was announced that on the 20th of March an examination would be held, at which there would be offered for competition, among other appointments, two clerkships in the Colonial Office, exceeding in value any which up to that time had been competed for under this scheme. The announcement attracted a large number of candidates, especially from the Universities. For the preliminary examination in handwriting, spelling, arithmetic, and English composition, 78 presented themselves, out of whom 31 were rejected; the remaining 47, together with 14 others who had already on some previous occasion satisfied the preliminary test, were submitted

*These were open competitions.

†These candidates had previously passed a preliminary test examination.