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9. Selected candidates, before proceeding to India,
   will be on probation for two years, during which time
   they will be examined periodically, with a view of
   testing their progress in the following subjects:-(10)
10. Law
11. Classical Languages of India—
    Sanskrit
    Arabic
    Persian
12. Vernacular Languages of India (each)
13. The History and Geography of India
14. Political Economy
    Marks.
    1,250
    500
    400
    400
    400
    350
    350
    In these examinations, as in the open competition,
    the merit of the candidates examined will be estimated
    by marks, and the number set opposite to each subject
    denotes the greatest number of marks that can be
    obtained in respect of it at any one examination.
    The examination will be conducted on paper and viva
    voce, as may be deemed necessary. The last of these
    examinations will be held at the close of the second
    year of probation, and will be called the "final
    examination," at which it will be decided whether a
    selected candidate is qualified for the Civil Service of
    India. At this examination candidates will be per-
    mitted to take up any one of the following branches
    of natural science: viz., botany, geology, and zoology,
    for which 350 marks will be allowed.
15. Any candidate who, at any of the periodical
    examinations, shall appear to have wilfully neglected
    his studies, or to be physically incapacitated for
    pursuing the prescribed course of training, will be
    liable to have his name removed from the list of
    selected candidates.
16. The selected candidates who, at the final ex-
    amination, shall be found to have a competent know-
    ledge of the subjects specified in Regulation 9, and
    who shall have satisfied the Civil Service Com-
    missioners of their eligibility in respect of nationality,
    age, health, and character, shall be certified by the
    said Commissioners to be entitled to be appointed to
    the Civil Service of India, provided they shall comply
    with the regulations in force at the time for that
    Service.
17. Applications from persons desirous to be ad-
    mitted as candidates are to be addressed to the
    "Secretary to the Civil Service Commissioners,
    London, S.W.," from whom the proper form for the
    purpose may be obtained.
    September, 1879.

The Civil Service Commissioners are authorized by
the Secretary of State for India in Council to make
the following announcements :—
(1.) Selected candidates will be permitted to choose (11), ac-
cording to the order in which they stand in the list resulting
from the open competition, as long as a choice remains, the
Presidency (and in Bengal the Division of the Presidency) to
which they shall be appointed; but this choice will be subject
to a different arrangement, should the Secretary of State, or the
Government of India, deem it necessary.
(2.) The probationers, having passed the necessary examina-
tions, will be required to report themselves to their Government
in India not later than the close of December, 1883.
(3.) The seniority in the Civil Service of India of the se-
lected candidates shall be determined according to the order
in which they stand on the list resulting from the final ex-
amination.
(4.) An allowance of £150 a year will be given during each
of the two years of their probation to all candidates who pass
their probation at one of the Universities or Colleges which
have been approved by the Secretary of State—viz., the Univer-

(10) Full instructions as to the course of study to be pursued
will be issued to the successful candidates as soon as possible
after the result of the open competition is declared.
(11) This choice must be exercised immediately after the
result of the open competition is announced, on such day as
may be fixed by the Civil Service Commissioners.

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sities of Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Edinburgh, St. Andrew's,
and Aberdeen, Trinity College, Dublin, University College,
London, and King's College, London, provided such candidates
shall have passed the required examinations to the satisfaction
of the Civil Service Commissioners, and shall have complied
with such rules as may be laid down for the guidance of
selected candidates.
(5.) All selected candidates will be required, after having
passed the second periodical examination, to attend at the
India Office for the purpose of entering into an agreement
binding themselves, amongst other things, to refund in certain
cases the amount of their allowance in the event of their failing
to proceed to India. A surety will be required.
(6.) After passing the final examination, each candidate will
be required to attend again at the India Office, with the view
of entering into covenants. The stamps payable on these
documents amount to £1.
(7.) Candidates rejected at the final examination of 1882
will in no case be allowed to present themselves for re-exami-
nation.

EXAMINATIONS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF
INDIA.

OPEN COMPETITION OF 1880.

For the guidance of candidates who may have a
difficulty in making their selections for special study
under the heads of English history and literature, the
following lists are given as indicating the character
and amount of reading that would be regarded as
satisfactory:—

History of England.
Any one of the following periods, to be studied generally in
Bright's History, and specially in portions, selected by the
candidate, of the text-books named:—

1. Henry II. to Edward III., A.D. 1154-1377.—
   Stubbs' Select Charters; Stubbs' Constitutional
   History of England.
2. The Tudors, A.D. 1485-1603.—Hallam's Con-
   stitutional History of England; Froude's History
   of England.
3. The Stuarts, A.D. 1603-1714.—Hallam's Con-
   stitutional History of England; Macaulay's History
   of England.
4. A.D. 1714-1805.—Lord Stanhope's History;
   Sir T. E. May's Constitutional History; either
   Massey's Reign of George III. or Lord Stanhope's
   Life of Pitt.

English Literature.

Poetry.
Shakespeare.—Three plays, one from each of the
following groups :—
(a.) Macbeth, Othello, Lear, Hamlet.
(b.) Coriolanus, Julius Cæsar, King John, Henry V.
(c.) Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Romeo and
Juliet, As You Like It.
And any two of the following:—

1. Chaucer.—Prologue to the Canterbury Tales,
   with the Prioress's Tale, and the Clerk's Tale. Or
   Spenser.—Faerie Queene, Books 1 and 2.
2. Milton.—First four books of Paradise Lost, or
   Paradise Regained, or Comus and Samson Agonistes.
3. Dryden.—Absalom and Achitophel, and The
   Hind and Panther.
4. Pope.—Essay on Criticism; with either imita-
   tions of Satires and Epistles of Horace, or Essay on
   Man.
5. Gray.—Poems.

Prose.
Bacon.—Essays, or Advancement of Learning.
And any two of the following:—

1. Milton.—Areopagitica. And Locke.—On the
   Conduct of the Understanding.