54. Make out and receipt the following bill:

73 ft. of stout pipe,

18 joints,

37 pipe hooks,

157 yd. of wire fencing,

at 61d. per ft.

1s. 3d. each.

" 1d. each.

"2s. 1d. per yd.

Time, 4 men, each 2 days, I 3s. 6d.

55. Find, by Practice, the cost of 1 ton 2 qr. 20 lb., at £9, 6s. 8d. per cwt.

56. Find, by Practice, the price of 46274, at 19s. 10d. each. 57. How many pounds of tea at 3s. 4d. per lb., ought I to receive for 340 lb. of sugar at 4ąd. per lb. ?

58. Make out the following bill :

3 quarters of wheat, at 7s. 12 bushels of oats, " 3s.

9d. per bushel

2d.

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59. How much brass, at 1s. 3d. per lb., ought to be given. for 98,600 nails at 6d. per hundred?

60. Find, by Practice, the value of 2037 cwt. of sugar, at £1, 19s. 8d. a cwt.

61. Find the value of a crop on 12 ac. 1 ro. 22 poles, at £19, 6s. 8d. an acre.

62. Reduce 28,635 seconds to hours.

63. Reduce 15 years 70 days to half-hours.

64. Make out the following bill:

66. Find the price of 3952 ac., at £3, 11s. 51d. each. 67. Find, by Practice, the value of 2166 tons, at 6s. 9 d. per ton.

68. What is the cost of 272 cwt. 1 qr. 21 lb., at £3, 2s. 3 d. per cwt. ?

69. What is the cost of 4563 cwt., at 16s. 8 d. per cwt.?

70. Make out and receipt the following bill:

72. A grocer's bill amounts to £189, 15s. It happens to

be made up of equal sums for tea at 3s. 10d. a lb., sugar

at 6d. a lb., rice at 41d. a lb., and coffee at 1s. 3d. a lb. How many lbs. are there of each sort?

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73. 1832 yd., at 16s. 8d. (By Practice.)

74. Find the cost of 723 ft. 11 in., at 3s. 21d. per foot. 75. How much is the following bill?

12 bars, each 3 lbs., at 5d. per lb. 164 lb., at 30s. per doz. lb.

12 packets, each 61 lb., at 111d. per lb. 76. Make out and receipt the following: 11 lb. at 3s. 2d. per lb.

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doz. and a half, at 6 for 7d.

77. 987 yd. at 24s. per yd. How much?

78. 27213 tons at £35, 12s. 101d. each. How much? 79. Find the cost of 11 ro. 7 po., at £17, 2s. 1d. per acre. (By Practice.)

80. Find, by Practice, the cost of 8 qr. 5 bush. 3 pk. 1 gall., at £14, 13s. 4d. per qr.

83. Find, by Practice, the rent of a farm containing

115 ac. 3 ro. 25 po., at the rate of £4, 10s. an acre.

84. Find, by Practice, the price of 15 yd. 3 qr. 1 nl. of velvet, at the rate of 11s. 41d. per quarter.

85. Make out, and receipt in proper form, a bill for 1000 envelopes at 6d. per 100; 56 reams of paper at 7s. 9d. per ream; 13 quires of blotting-paper at 101d. per quire; 9 dozen black-lead pencils at 2s. 11d. per dozen.

86. Find, by Practice, the price of 249 articles at £2, 13s. 9d. each.

87. Find, by Practice, the price of 33 cwt. 3 qr. 7 lb., at the rate of £6, 7s. 8d. per cwt.

88. Make out in proper form, and receipt the following bill: 18 yd. of cloth at £1, 10s. per yd.; 14 yd. of rich velvet at 18s. 114d. per yd.; 371 yd. of calico at 1s. 10d. per yd.; and 1123 yd. of silk at 3s. 6d. per yd.

89. Find, by Practice, the price of 15 oz. 6 dwt. 17 gr. of silver, at the rate of 5s. 10d. per oz.

90. Find, by Practice, the rent of a farm containing 30 ac. 3 ro. 20 po., at the rate of £2, 10s. 6d. an acre.

91. Make out, and receipt in proper form, a bill for the following articles: 36 lb. of soap at 101d. per lb.; 39 lb. of butter at 83d. per lb. ; 24 lb. of lump-sugar at 74d. per lb.; 6 lb. of starch at 1s. 2d. per lb.; 221⁄2 lb. of tea at 4s. 6d. per. lb.

92. Value, by Practice, 327 articles at 5s. 31d. each. 93. Value 15 tons 4 cwt. 3 qr. 21 lb., at £11, 17s. 6d.

per ton.

94. Find the value of 7857 articles at £1, 9s. 11⁄2d. a

score.

95. The cost of 2 tons 4 cwt. 1 qr. 31⁄2 lb., at £7, 9s. 41⁄2d. per cwt.

96. If a man earn regularly 8s. 51d. a day, in how many days will he earn £10, 2s. 6d. ?

97. Find, by Practice, the cost of 9086 articles at 12s. 11 d. each.

98. Make out the following bill, with proper heading and receipt 3 lb. coffee at 1s. 10d.; 3 qt. vinegar at 2d. per pt.; 1 bar of soap, weighing 35 lb., at 31d. per lb.; 3 doz. eggs at 2d. each.

99. Find, by Practice, the cost of 3864 articles at 21d. cach.

100. Find the value of 9 ac. 3 ro. 20 po., at £5, 5s. per rood. (Work by Practice.)

CANDIDATES-MALES AND FEMALES.

DICTATION.

A short passage of prose to be selected by the Inspector, read over once, and then slowly dictated.

CANDIDATES-MALES AND FEMALES.

GRAMMAR.

1. Parse the words in Italics in the following passage:

'All honest thinking men must lament to see their country run headlong into all these luxurious follies, which, it is evident, have been fatal to other nations, and will undoubtedly prove fatal to us also, if a timely stop be not put to them.'

2. Mention any adjectives having more than one superlative form.

3. Define intransitive, irregular, impersonal, and auxiliary verbs, giving examples.

4. Parse the words in Italics in the following passage, showing their relations:

'It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of uiting the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.'