REGULATIONS. Junior Examiner, Office of Works. V. No candidate will be eligible whose age on the first day of the examination is less than 22 or more than 30. Civil Service Commission, 11th May 1871. An open competition for two situations of junior examiner in the 11 May 1871. Office of Works will be held in London, under the above regulations, on the 30th May 1871 and following days. REGULATIONS. REGULATIONS (framed in pursuance of Her Majesty's Order in Council of the 4th June 1870) for an OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION for the SITUATION OF ASSISTANT DISPENSER in HER MAJESTY'S NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTS. Assistant Dispenser in H.M. Naval Establishments. 29 March 1871. 1. The examination will be in the following subjects, viz. :- 2. Orthography. 3. Arithmetic (to vulgar and decimal fractions). 4. English Composition. NOTE. Candidates will be required to show that they possess the minor qualifications of the Pharmaceutical Society, and they must satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners on this point before they can be admitted to the competition. 2. A fee of 7s. 6d. will be required from each candidate attending the examination. 3. No candidate will be eligible whose age on the first day of the competitive examination is less than 20 or more than 25. Civil Service Commission, 29th March 1871. An open competition will be held in London, under the above regulations, on Tuesday, April 25th. Five persons will be selected, if so many should be found qualified; two to fill vacancies now existing at Jamaica and Ascension naval hospitals, and three to fill, in order of merit, the next vacancies that may occur while they are eligible in respect of age. The daily pay is as follows: and for every additional year an addition of 6d. per diem till 10s. a day is reached. When in charge of stores on additional allowance will be granted, viz., Is. per day. An allowance of 6d. a day in lieu of fuel and light and quarters will be provided. Superannuation will be allowed in accordance with the Superannuation Act of 1859. Assistant dispensers will not be eligible for promotion to the rank of dispenser, or to be placed in charge of stores, until they have obtained the major qualifications of the Pharmaceutical Society. Persons wishing to be admitted to the examination must fill up the annexed form, and return it so as to reach the Civil Service Commission on or before April 15th. An order for examination will then be sent to them in due course. TEMPORARY WRITERS in PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS. 1. A Register of writers will be kept by the Civil Service Commis sioners. Such writers will be employed in the public departments when wanted. When not wanted, they will have no claim to employ ment; refusing to serve when called upon, they will be removed from the Register. 2. Writers will be subject to the orders of the Departments in which they are serving during the time of their actual employment; but they will be under the Civil Service Commissioners, and paid by them, from week to week, or day to day, as circumstances may require. 3. Writers must satisfy the Civil Service Comwissioners that they are of good health and character, and that they are duly qualified under the following regulations (4 and 5). 4. The limits of age will be: (a.) For men writers,-over 18. (b.) For boy writers,-14 to 18. 5. The subjects in which candidates will be tested are: 6. Examinations, for the purpose of testing the qualifications of candidates in the above-mentioned subjects, will be held by the Civil Service Commissioners from time to time as may be necessary, and a certain number regulated by the probable demand from the public departments, of those who display the requisite amount of proficiency, will be placed upon the register kept by the Commissioners. 7. The fee payable by persons attending these examinations will be 58. for each person in class (a), and 2s. 6d. for each person in class (b). 8. Writers placed upon the register will be eligible for employment in any department. They will be summoned for employment when and for such time as their services may be needed; the order in which they may be employed, and the departments to which they may be assigned being determined on each occasion by the Civil Service Commissioners. 9. The engagement of all writers, not engaged for a shorter period, will be by the week. Writers may also be engaged by the day or the hour, as may be found advisable. Boy writers will not be retained as such after they shall have reached the age of 19. 10. The pay of men writers engaged by time, will be at the rate of 10d. per hour. No greater number of hours than those constituting an * For the present, writers engaged for more than a week at a time in one depart- Temporary Temporary official day in each department may be charged for without previous Writers. authority from the chiefs of the department. Those engaged by the piece will be paid at the rate of 1d. for every 100 words well and correctly copied, or at such other rates for special kinds of work as may be determined by the Civil Service Commissioners with the approval of the Commissioners of the Treasury. 11. No service, however much it may happen to be prolonged, will confer any claim to superannuation or compensation allowance. 12. The remuneration of boy writers engaged by time will be at the rate of 4d. per hour; an addition of d. per hour being allowable by the Civil Service Commissioners at the end of each year of approved service. Should any boy writers be engaged by the piece they will be paid at such rates as may be fixed by the Civil Service Commissioners with the approval of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. 13. When a writer has a week's pay to receive he shall lose no part of it for days on which the office is shut for public holidays. With this exception, writers will only receive pay for the hours, or parts of hours, during which they actually attend. 14. No person who has been trained, either wholly or partially, at the public expense, for the occupation of a teacher in schools in connexion with the Committee of Council for Education, or the Board of National Education, Ireland, is eligible for employment as a writer, unless he shall have first obtained the consent of the Treasury. *NOTICE. Applicants under the above regulations may present themselves at this office, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 12 noon, on any Thursday in the month of They will then receive an Order for Examina tion, which will, generally, be held the same day. Persons desirous of being examined in Edinburgh or Dublin, or at any large provincial town in England, Scotland, or Ireland, should apply by letter to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission. If a sufficien number of candidates apply, arrangements will be made for their examination and "Orders for Examination" will be sent to them. The fees are to be paid by means of special stamps, respecting which the candidate will receive full instructions with his "Order for Examination." Each candidate will be informed by letter of the result of his exami nation. If successful, he will be required to furnish evidence of his age and health, and to give satisfactory references as to his character. APPENDIX II. STATISTICAL TABLES, &c. RELATING TO THE HOME CIVIL SERVICE. A. Limits of Age, and Subjects of Examination prescribed for the various B. Number of Cases dealt with C. Number and Particulars of Competitions Page 16 17 29 32 D. Causes of Rejection E. Marks obtained in Competitions 1. Open Competitions under Clause V. of the Order in Council 33 2-8. Other Competitions for the Home Civil Service List of Certificated Candidates List of Honorary Certificates 49 73 92 TABLE A.-LIMITS of AGE and SUBJECTS of EXAMINATION prescribed for the various DEPARTMENTS. [These, under the Order in Council of 4th June 1870, are to be settled, subject to the approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by the Civil Service Commissioners and the chief authorities of each department. They will be published in a separate form as soon as the necessary arrangements have been completed.] |