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14. The date of entry of those who pass in June is
    to reckon from the 15th July of the same year; of
    those who pass in November from the 15th January
    of the next year.

15. The period of training on board the "Britan-
    nia," will be, as now, four terms; but there will be
    two terms in each year instead of three. The first
    term of each year will be from February to July, the
    second from August to December.
    A week's vacation will be allowed at Easter.

16. There will be an examination at the end of
    each term, and an intermediate examination at
    Easter for cadets in their first year.

17. Cadets who join in August, and who pass an
    unsatisfactory examination in December, will be
    warned that they will be discharged at the following
    Easter if they do not show sufficient improvement.
    Cadets who join in February and pass an unsatis-
    factory examination at Easter, will be similarly
    warned with respect to the examination in July.
    Any cadet who passes unsatisfactorily at a sub-
    sequent examination will be discharged.

Admiralty, 3rd August, 1869.

CIRCULAR No. 46. C.
Admiralty, 3rd August, 1869.

Regulations respecting Naval Cadets (and
Midshipmen).

THE Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having
decided-

(1) To increase the time during which naval
cadets will be under training, part of such
time being spent in sea-going training ships,
and the whole period being considered one of
probation;

(2) To introduce the system of limited compe-
tition for naval cadetships; and

(3) Still further to reduce the number of naval
cadets annually entered;

have been pleased to make the following regulations:

1. These regulations will take effect after the ex-
   amination in August, 1869.

2. Two examinations for naval cadetships will be
   held annually under the direction of the Admiralty
   Director of Education, viz., on the third Wednesday
   in June, and on the last Wednesday in November,
   but the appointments, as cadets, of the successful
   candidates will date from the 15th July or the 15th
   January.

3. The first examination under these regulations
   will take place in November, 1869.

4. No candidate will be eligible for examination in
   November whose age will not be within the pre-
   scribed limits on the 15th January following, or for
   examination in June whose age will not be within the
   prescribed limits on the 15th July following.

5. The limits of age for examination in November,
   1869, will be not less than 12 nor more then 14 years
   of age.

For examination in June, 1870, not less than 12
nor more than 13 years of age.

After June, 1870, no candidate is to be examined
who is under 12 or above 13 years of age.

6. The number of naval cadets to be entered at
   each examination will for the present be reduced
   to 37; and twice the number to be entered will be
   nominated to compete for cadetships.

Should fewer than the authorized number pass at
any examination, the difference will be made up at
the next examination, and the number nominated
will be proportionately increased.

7. Every candidate will be required to pass the
   medical examination according to the prescribed
   regulations, and must have been found physically fit
   for the Royal Navy.

He must be in good health and free from any
physical defect of body, impediment of speech, defect
of sight or hearing, and also from any predisposition
to constitutional or hereditary disease or weakness
of any kind, and in all respects well developed and
active in proportion to his age.

Any candidate rejected at the medical examination
will be finally excluded from the Royal Navy.

8. The candidate will be required to produce (1) a
   certificate of birth or declaration thereof made before
   a magistrate; (2) a certificate of good conduct from
   the masters of any schools at which he may have
   been educated within the two previous years, or, if
   educated at home, from his tutors or the clergyman
   of the parish in which he resides; and (3) a certifi-
   cate of good health.

9. The candidates will be required :- Marks assigned.

(a) To read a passage from a modern
standard English author with in-
telligence ... 100

(b) To write English from dictation
correctly in a legible hand ... 100

(c) To read, translate, and parse a
passage from French ... 100
N.B. The aid of a dictionary will be allowed
in this translation.

They will also be required to have a
satisfactory knowledge of-

(d) Arithmetic, as far as proportion
and vulgar and decimal fractions ... 150

(e) Scripture history ... 100

No candidate will be qualified to compete unless
he obtains at least four-tenths of the marks assigned
to each of these subjects, and 250 marks in the
aggregate.

10. Candidates so qualified will be further examined
    in such of the following subjects as they may select:
    Marks assigned.

(f) Arithmetic. Miscellaneous ex-
amples ... 100

(g) Algebra. The first four rules and
fractions (Miscellaneous questions) 100

(h) Euclid. Book I., Prop. XXII. ... 100

(i) French. Translation of English
into French ... 100

(k) Latin. To read, translate, and
parse a passage from the first two
books of Cæsar de Bello Gallico, or
Virgil's Æneid, and to translate easy
passages from English into Latin ... 100

(l) English History. From the com-
mencement of the reign of James I.
to the present day ... 100

(m) The outlines of modern geography 100

(n) Any one living foreign language
except French. To read, translate,
and parse a passage, and to render
an English passage into it ... 100

(o) Elementary drawing ... 100

No marks amounting to less than one-sixth in a
voluntary subject will be counted towards the total.

11. A candidate who obtains the number of marks
    prescribed for passing, but who may not be successful
    in the competition, will be allowed to compete again
    at the next examination without a fresh nomination.
    No candidate will be allowed to compete more than
    twice.

12. Candidates rejected for the first time at the
    examination in August, 1869, are to be allowed a
    second trial in November without a fresh nomination;
    but they must then compete with other candidates,