1. Good handwriting and orthography.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3. English composition.

4. Précis, i. e. making abstracts of official papers.

26. The Lunacy Commission. Candidates for clerkships to be between the age of twenty-five and thirtyfive, and to be qualified in the following subjects: — 1. Exercises designed to test handwriting and orthography.

2. Copying from manuscript.
3. Elementary arithmetic.

4. English composition.

5. Correspondence.

6. Précis, i. e. making abstracts from documents and official papers.

27. The Metropolitan Police Courts. Candidates for clerkships to be between the age of seventeen and twenty-three, unless the nominee shall be a certificated attorney of one of the courts of law at Westminster, or shall have acted for at least seven years immediately before his application for the appointment as clerk to the justices of any petty session. The qualifications required are:

1. Good handwriting and orthography.

2. The first four rules of arithmetic, with reduction and proportion.

3. English composition.

4. Geography; or English history; or Latin; or any modern foreign language.

5. Criminal law, in case the candidate has been a certificated attorney, or justice's clerk at petty sessions.

28. The Metropolitan Police. Candidates for clerkships at the Chief Office to be between seventeen and twenty-five; and candidates for clerkships at the Receiver's Office between eighteen and twenty-five years of age. The required qualifications are:

a. For clerks at the Chief Office:

1. Writing from dictation.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3. Book-keeping.

4. English composition.

5. Geography of the British Empire.
6. History of the British Empire.
7. Translation from French.

b. For clerks at the Receiver's Office.

1. Good handwriting and orthography.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3. English composition.

4. Geography of the British Empire.

5. History of the British Empire.

29. The Mint. Candidates for establishment clerkships to be between twenty and thirty years of age; and candidates for temporary clerkships, and for any of the appointments in the operative department, to be between twenty and forty-five. The qualifications required are:

a. For establishment clerks:

1. Fair handwriting and orthography.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3. Book-keeping by double entry.

4. English composition.

5. Correspondence.

6. Preparation of tabular statements.

7. History of England; or political economy, so far as it relates to money or coinage; or, the elements of mechanical science; or, the elements of chemistry.

b. For temporary clerks :

1. Fair handwriting and orthography.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3. English composition.

c. For junior assayers, junior superintendents in the melting and coining-rooms, and others belonging to the same class:

1. Fair handwriting and orthography.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3. English composition.

4. Knowledge of the elements of chemistry, and of such other mechanical sciences as are necessary to give the candidate the requisite technical proficiency.

Candidates for

30. The National Debt Office. clerkships to be between the age of sixteen and twentyfive, with the exception of those who have been previously in some branch of the public service, who are eligible until the age of twenty-seven, if their previous service commenced before they were twenty-five. The qualifications required are :—

1. Fair handwriting and orthography.

2. Copying from manuscript.

3. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

4. Geography.

5. History.

31. The Patent Office. It has been arranged that the future appointments in this office shall only be confirmed after previous examination before the Civil Service Commissioners; but nothing has as yet been fixed respecting the limits of age and the necessary qualifi

cations.

32. The Paymaster-General's Office. Candidates for clerkships to be between eighteen and twenty-five years of age, and to be possessed of the following qualifications:

1. Writing from dictation.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal

a. For clerks at the Chief Office:

1. Writing from dictation.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3. Book-keeping.

4. English composition.

5. Geography of the British Empire.
6. History of the British Empire.
7. Translation from French.

b. For clerks at the Receiver's Office.

1. Good handwriting and orthography.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3. English composition.

4. Geography of the British Empire.

5. History of the British Empire.

29. The Mint. Candidates for establishment clerkships to be between twenty and thirty years of age; and candidates for temporary clerkships, and for any of the appointments in the operative department, to be between twenty and forty-five. The qualifications required are:

a. For establishment clerks:

1. Fair handwriting and orthography.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3. Book-keeping by double entry.

4. English composition.

5. Correspondence.

6. Preparation of tabular statements.

7. History of England; or political economy, so far as it relates to money or coinage; or, the elements of mechanical science; or, the elements of chemistry.

b. For temporary clerks:

1. Fair handwriting and orthography.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3. English composition.

c. For junior assayers, junior superintendents in the melting and coining-rooms, and others belonging to the same class:

1. Fair handwriting and orthography.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3. English composition.

4. Knowledge of the elements of chemistry, and of such other mechanical sciences as are necessary to give the candidate the requisite technical proficiency.

Candidates for

30. The National Debt Office. clerkships to be between the age of sixteen and twentyfive, with the exception of those who have been previously in some branch of the public service, who are eligible until the age of twenty-seven, if their previous service commenced before they were twenty-five. The qualifications required are :—

1. Fair handwriting and orthography.

2. Copying from manuscript.

3. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

4. Geography.

5. History.

31. The Patent Office. It has been arranged that the future appointments in this office shall only be confirmed after previous examination before the Civil Service Commissioners; but nothing has as yet been fixed respecting the limits of age and the necessary qualifi

cations.

32. The Paymaster-General's Office. Candidates for clerkships to be between eighteen and twenty-five years of age, and to be possessed of the following qualifications:

1. Writing from dictation.

2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal.