DIRECT COMMISSIONS.

The marks included in brackets are below the minimum, and are not counted in the total.

Number.

The candidate named this subject but was not examined in it having failed in the obligatory part of the examination.
Tho marks included in brackets are below the minimum, and are not counted in the total.

245

APPENDIX V.

CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

CONTENTS.

1. Correspondence

2. Instructions issued to Candidates with respect to their Periodical Exami-

nations:-

Instructions to the Candidates selected in 1869

Instructions to the Candidates selected in 1870

290

293

Instructions to the Candidates selected in 1871

297

3. Examination Papers used at the Open Competition of 1871

303

4. Examination Papers used at the Final Examination of Candidates selected

in 1869 (May 1871)

353

5. Papers used at the Examination for Prizes of Candidates selected in 1869

(June 1871)

396

6. Papers used at an examination for the India Forest Department (November

1870)

412

Papers used at an examination for the India Forest Department (March

1871) -

425

7. Papers used at the Open Competition for Entrance to the Indian Civil
Engineering College, Cooper's Hill (June 1871)

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CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

1.-CORRESPONDENCE.

Evidence of age of native candidates.

The Under Secretary of State, India Office, to the Secretary, Civil
Service Commission.

SIR,
India Office, 30th September 1870.
WITH reference to the correspondence which took place between
the Office of the Civil Service Commissioners and this Department in
August and December 1869, and in January of the present year, I am
directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acquaint you
for the information of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners that
instructions were sent to the Presidencies in India in April last to
request the University and College authorities in that country to use
strict precautions for preventing the possibility of any misunderstanding
on the part of native candidates for the universities, as to the right
interpretation of the rules regarding the age of admission. It was
desired that the same authorities might further be requested to take
care that, in accordance with the rules, none be admitted without
having first furnished clear proof of having completed sixteen years
from the date of birth, and that measures be taken for promulgating
among the natives of India generally, a distinct understanding, in the
above sense, as to the rules in question.

I am now to forward to you to be laid before the Commissioners a copy of a despatch, with its accompaniments, received from the Govern ment of Bombay, regarding a notification issued, with their approval, and with the concurrence of the Bombay University, explanatory of the University regulation regarding the age of admission to that institution. I am, &c.

ENCLOSURE 1.

TO HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.

MY LORD DUKE,

Educational Department, London.

WITH reference to your despatch No. 12, dated the 28th April last, we have the honour to forward herewith copy of a notification which has been issued by the Director of Public Instruction, with our approval, and with the concurrence of the University of Bombay, in explanation of the University regulation regarding the minimum age for admission to the matriculation examination.

We have, &c.