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6. The marks assigned to candidates in each branch will
   be subject to such deduction as the Civil Service Commis-
   sioners may deem necessary(1), in order to secure that “a
   candidate be allowed no credit at all for taking up a subject
   in which he is a mere smatterer.”

7. The examination will be conducted on paper and vivâ
   voce, as may be deemed necessary.

8. The marks obtained by each candidate in respect of
   each of the subjects in which he shall have been examined
   will be added up, and the names of the several candidates
   who shall have obtained, after the deduction above men-
   tioned, a greater aggregate number of marks than any of the
   remaining candidates, will be set forth in order of merit, and
   such candidates shall be deemed to be selected candidates
   for the Civil Service of India, provided they appear to be in
   other respects duly qualified. Should any of the selected
   candidates become disqualified, the Secretary of State for
   India will determine whether the vacancy thus created shall
   be filled up or not. In the former case, the candidate next
   in order of merit, and in other respects duly qualified, shall
   be deemed to be a selected candidate. A selected candidate
   declining to accept the appointment which may be offered to
   him will be disqualified for any subsequent competition.

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:—(2)

Marks.
(1.) Law .. .. .. .. 1,250
(2.) Classical languages of India—
Sanskrit .. .. .. .. 500
Arabic .. .. .. .. 400
Persian .. .. .. .. 400
(3.) Vernacular languages of India (each) .. 400
(4.) The history and geography of India .. 350
(5.) Political economy .. .. .. 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 con-
ducted on paper and vivâ 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 permitted to take up any one
of the following branches of natural science, viz., agricultural
chemistry, botany, geology, or zoology, for which 350 marks
will be allowed.

10. Candidates will be tested during their probation as to
    their ability to perform journeys on horseback; and no can-
    didate will be deemed qualified for the Civil Service of India
    who fails to satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners of his
    competence in this respect.

11. Any candidate who, at any of the periodical exami-
    ations, 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.

12. The selected candidates who, at the final examination,
    shall be found to have a competent knowledge of the sub-
    jects specified in Regulation 9, and who shall have satisfied
    the Civil Service Commissioners of their eligibility in respect
    of nationality, age, health, character, and ability to ride,
    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.

13. Persons desirous to be admitted as candidates must
    apply on forms, which may be obtained from the Secretary,
    Civil Service Commission, London, S.W., at any time after
    the 1st December, 1886. The forms must be returned so
    as to be received at the office of the Civil Service Com-
    missioners on or before the 31st March, 1887.(3)

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, ac-
cording to the order in which they stand in the list resulting
from the open competition, so 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.(1)

(2.) The probationers, having passed the necessary exami-
nations, will be required to report their arrival in India within
such period after the grant of their certificate of qualification
as the Secretary of State may in each case direct.

(3.) The seniority in the Civil Service of India of the
selected candidates shall be determined according to the
order in which they stand on the list resulting from the final
examination.

(4.) An allowance amounting to £300 will be given 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 Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin,
Glasgow, Edinburgh, St. Andrew's, and Aberdeen; Uni-
versity College, London; and King's College, London; pro-
vided such candidates shall have passed the required exami-
nations 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.

Candidates are not permitted to migrate from the univer-
sity originally chosen by them to another university without
first applying to the India Office for the permission, and
receiving the sanction of the Secretary of State, who will not
entertain such applications unless good and sufficient reasons
are assigned.

(5.) Selected candidates desiring to remain in this country
an additional year after the completion of their two years'
probation for the purpose of taking a degree at one of the
universities above mentioned should apply to the Secretary
of State for India for permission to do so. Besides the
allowances above mentioned, a bonus of £150 will, as a tem-
porary and experimental measure, be paid to any candidate
who, having obtained permission to remain an additional
year, passes an examination qualifying for a degree in honours
at Oxford or Cambridge, or, being a student of University
College, London, passes with credit an honour examination
of the University of London. This privilege will be hereafter
extended to any other of the universities above referred to,
at which an academical distinction is obtainable which, in
the opinion of the Secretary of State, corresponds to a degree
in honours at Oxford or Cambridge, and to obtain which the
additional year's residence in this country is necessary.

(6.) All selected candidates will be required, after having
passed the first periodical examination, and before receiving
the first instalment of their allowance, 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.

(7.) After passing the final examination each candidate
will be required to attend again at the India Office, with the
view of entering into covenants, by which, amongst other
things, they will bind themselves to agree to such regula-
tions for the provision of pensions for their families as may
be approved by the Secretary of State for India in Council.
The stamps payable on these covenants amount to £1.

(8.) Candidates rejected at the final examination of 1889
will in no case be allowed to present themselves for re-
examination.

1887.—NOTICE RESPECTING THE EXAMINATION IN THE
HISTORY OF ENGLAND AND ENGLISH LITERATURE.

History of England.

For the guidance of candidates who may have a difficulty
in making their selections for special study under this head,
the following list is given as indicating the character and
amount of reading that would be regarded as satisfactory:—

Any one of the following periods to be studied generally
in Bright's History, or (for the two first periods) Green's
“History of the English People;” and more particularly in
portions selected by the candidate of the text-books named:—

1. A.D. 1066–1307: Stubbs's Select Charters; Stubbs's
   Constitutional History of England; Freeman's Norman Con-
   quest, Vol. V.

2. A.D. 1461–1588: Hallam's Constitutional History of
   England; Froude's History of England; Brewer's Henry
   VIII.

3. A.D. 1603–1715: Hallam's Constitutional History of
   England; Macaulay's History of England; Gardiner's His-
   tory of England; Wyon's Reign of Queen Anne.

4. A.D. 1715–1805: Lord Stanhope's History; Sir T. E.
   May's Constitutional History; Seeley's Expansion of Eng-
   land; Massey's Reign of George III.

English Literature.

Under this head there will be (besides the general paper) a
special paper on the following books:—

1. Spencer: Faery Queen, Books I. and II.

2. Shakespeare: Othello, Tempest.

(1) 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.

1. Marks assigned in English composition and mathematics will
   be subject to no deduction. Each science will, for the purpose of
   deduction, be treated as a separate subject.

(2) 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.

(3) These forms should be accompanied by evidence on the points
mentioned in Regulation 2, and by a list of the subjects in which the
candidate desires to be examined. Evidence of health and character
must bear date not earlier than the 1st March, 1887. Applications
for leave to alter or add to the list of subjects named will not be
entertained unless received on or before the 4th May.