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

PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,

PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

Deep. Ex, teen & Bar of. City of seen fork, 23 may 1930.

CONTENTS.

THIRD REPORT

APPENDICES:

APPENDIX I.

Table A. Showing the Limits of Age for each Class of

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B. Showing the Subjects of Examination for

each Class of Situation

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C. Showing for each Department and Class the

Number of Nominations, &c.

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D. Showing the Nominations, &c., for each De-

partment and Class in 1857, as compared

with 1856 -

E. Showing for each Department the Number

and Particulars of Competitions to De-

cember 31, 1857 -

F. Showing the Number, &c., of Competitions

for Clerkships for each Department in 1857,

as compared with 1856, and the Number of

Persons nominated to similar Situations

without Competition during the same.

periods

G 1. Showing the Causes of Rejections in 1857

G 2. Showing the Extent to which, in 1857,

Rejections have been owing to Failure in

Spelling and Arithmetic

H. Showing the Extent to which Alterations

in the Result of Competitions would have

taken place if the Examination had been

limited to purely practical Subjects

I 1. Showing the Schools attended by Candi-

dates for certain of the principal Depart-

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ments

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I 2. Showing the Colleges attended by the same

Candidates

K1. Showing the Social Position of the Fathers

of the same Candidates

K2. Showing the previous Occupation of the

same Candidates -

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L. Showing the Profession or Occupation of

the Fathers of 2930 Candidates for Clerk-

ships, &c.

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APPENDIX I.—continued.

Table M. Showing the Marks obtained by each Com-

N. Showing the Results of a Competition for

a Clerkship in the Civil Service Com-

mission

O. Showing the Number of Occasions on which

Honorary Additions to Candidates' Cer-

tificates have been made for each Subject

List of Certificated Candidates

List of Candidates who have obtained Honorary Cer-

tificates

APPENDIX II.-Correspondence

APPENDIX III.-Specimens of the Examination Papers

APPENDIX IV.-Act of the Canadian Legislature "for im-

proving the Organization and increasing

the Efficiency of the Civil Service of

Canada"

Regulations to be cbserved by Candidates for Employ-

ment in the Civil Service of Canada

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THIRD REPORT.

WE, Your Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners, humbly offer to Your Majesty the following Report of our proceedings for the past year. We are the more anxious to perform this duty, because we earnestly desire to give as much publicity to all that we do as is consistent with the due fulfilment of our functions. With this view we have in our preceding Reports given copious specimens of our examination papers, and stated in general terms the various causes of rejection of candidates. On the present occasion we propose to go further in this direction, and to set forth in the Appendix the examination papers which have been set during the last year. We have made exceptions as regards the papers in arithmetic and orthography, which are of so simple and uniform a character as to render it superfluous to give more than a few examples of them; and as regards passages to be translated, we have given references to the books from which they are selected.

In the multitude of questions which will be found in the examination papers which are thus set forth-varied as they necessarily must be in order to prevent unfair advantage being taken by surreptitiously acquired knowledge of them -there are in all probability some which may deserve and will doubtless undergo adverse criticism.

Far from deprecating such criticism we shall gladly take advantage of any useful suggestions it may afford to us. We may venture, however, to say that the assistance we have received in this portion of our duties from gentlemen of the highest ability and of great experience induces us to believe that our examination papers will be found to be free from general and serious objections. We may