nation; but no particulars respecting limits of age and qualifications required have as yet been fixed on between the authorities and Civil Service Commissioners. 38. The Public Works Office. Candidates for clerkships to be between eighteen and twenty-five years of age, and to be possessed of the following qualifications: 1. Good handwriting and orthography. 2. Copying from manuscript. 3. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions. 39. The Record Office. Candidates for any of the junior situations, clerkships included, to be between the age of seventeen and thirty. The qualifications required are: 1. Good handwriting and orthography. 2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions. 3. Book-keeping by single entry. 4. Précis, i. e. making abstracts of documents. 5. Geography. 6. History of England. 7. Translation from Latin. 8. Translation from French. 40. The Science and Art Department. Candidates for ordinary clerkships to be between the age of eighteen and twenty-five, except they are already in the public service, and were under twenty-five when first entering it, in which case the maximum age is to be thirty. Candidates for supplementary and temporary clerkships, and for other junior situations, to be between the age of seventeen and thirty, except again where there has been any previous public service extending over a period of at least five years, in which case the limit of age is to be forty-five. The qualifications required are:— a. For ordinary clerks : 1. Writing from dictation. 2. Transcribing. 3. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions. 4. Précis, i. e. making condensed abstracts of public papers. 5. Geography. 6. Translation from one ancient or modern foreign language. b. For supplementary and temporary clerks: 1. Writing from dictation. 2. Transcribing. 3. The first four rules in arithmetic, with practice, and the rule of three. 4. Grammatical structure of sentences of a simple character. 41. The Stationery Office. Candidates for clerkships to be between seventeen and twenty-five, and for other junior situations to be between nineteen and forty years of age. For all classes, the qualifications required are: 1. Fair handwriting and orthography. 2. Arithmetic, including vulgar fractions. 42. The Trade Department. Candidates for ordinary clerkships to be between the age of eighteen and twenty-five; but persons already in the public service. may be transferred to the Board of Trade, provided they were at the time when they first entered the service under the maximum age for admission. Candidates for supplementary clerkships to between seventeen and thirty years of age. The qualifications required are: a. For ordinary clerks : 1. Writing from dictation. 3. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions. 4. Précis, i. e. making abstracts of documents. 5. Geography. 6. Translation from one ancient or modern b. For supplementary clerks: 3. Arithmetic, including the first four rules, with 4. Grammatical structure of sentences of a simple character. 43. The Treasury. Candidates for establishment clerkships to be between eighteen and twenty-five; for clerkships in the Solicitor's Office between twenty and thirty, and for supplementary clerkships between eighteen and twenty-five years of age. The maximum age in all cases may be extended up to the age of thirty for candidates who have been in the public service since they were twenty-five. The qualifications required are: a. For establishment clerks : 1. Good handwriting and orthography. 2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions. 3. Précis, i. e. making abstracts of papers. 4. Geography. 5. History of England. 6. The first three books of Euclid. 7. Translation from one of the following languages, Latin, French, German, or Italian, the selection being left to the candidate. b. For clerks in the Solicitor's Office. 1. Writing from dictation. 2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions. 3. English composition. 4. General principles of equity and common law. 5. Conveyancing. c. For supplementary clerks : 1. Writing from dictation. 2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions. 3. Book-keeping. 4. English composition. 44. The War Department. Candidates for permanent clerkships at the Commander-in-Chief's Office to be between eighteen and twenty-five, and for supernumerary clerkships in the same office to be between eighteen and forty years of age. Candidates for permanent clerkships at the Quartermaster-General's Office to be between the age of sixteen and twenty-three, and for temporary clerkships at the same to be between sixteen and forty. Candidates for permanent clerkships at the Adjutant-General's Office to be between sixteen and twenty-five, and for temporary clerkships at the same to be between sixteen and forty years of age. Candidates for clerkships at the office of the Council of Military Education to be between eighteen and forty-two; and candidates for the post of non-commissioned officer at any of the out-stations or manufacturing branches to be between twenty and forty-two years of age. Candidates nominated to clerkships after having held other situations (not being temporary clerkships) in the service of the War Department, will only be required to have been within the prescribed limit of age when they first entered the service. The qualifications which are necessary in each case are : a. For permanent clerks : 1. Good handwriting and orthography. 2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions. 3. English composition. 5. Geography. 6. History. 7. Translation from Latin, or from a modern language. b. For permanent clerks at out-stations, clerks in military store service, clerks in royal engineer's offices, and clerks in barrack offices: 1. Fair handwriting and orthography. 2. English grammar. 3. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions. 4. Geography. 5. History. c. For clerks at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and at the manufacturing branches of the War Department: 1. Writing from dictation. 2. Arithmetic, including avoirdupois table. 4. Correspondence. 5. Knowledge of the distinguishing characteristics of the materials used in the service, and of the mode of computation employed for each. d. For clerks at out-stations and at the royal gunfactories, who are non-commissioned officers of the line: 1. Writing from dictation. 2. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions. 3. Correspondence. e. For temporary clerks: 1. Fair handwriting and orthography. 2. Elements of English grammar. 3. Elementary arithmetic. f. For clerks at the Judge-Advocate-General's Office: 1. Writing from dictation. 2. Copying. |