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class of assistant constructors will be by selection. Those officers who have taken first-class certificates on their final examination at the Royal Naval College will be eligible for promotion to first class if favourably reported on after five years’ service reckoned from the date of leaving the college, and those who have obtained second-class certificates to be similarly eligible after seven years’ service.

49. The assistant engineers who pass the second and third sessions at Greenwich will be attached during the vacations between the 30th June and 1st October to the dockyards or steam reserves, where they will be employed sketching machinery, attending trials of new and repaired engines, or gaining such professional information as will be most useful to them for the purposes of engine-design. The assistant constructors will also be attached to the dockyards during the vacations, and will be employed on duties appertaining to their position.

50. An assistant engineer who is selected at the end of the first session at the Royal Naval College to remain for two more sessions at the college will be required before commencing the second session to enter into a bond* with surety for the sum of £500 not to leave Her Majesty’s service within seven years of the completion of the term at Greenwich. This is in reference to defraying the charges incurred by the public for his education. The resignation is in every case to be subject to their Lordships’ approval.

Uniform, Books, &c.

51. Students are to be provided with two blue-cloth uniform tunics, two blue-cloth uniform trousers, two blue-cloth uniform waistcoats, one uniform overcoat (frock-coat, pilot cloth), one uniform pea-jacket, one uniform cap (peak half turn down, with usual device of the Civil Branch), two working uniform suits of blue serge, one working-cap, one waterproof coat.

Eight buttons placed by four to be worn on the breast of the tunic. The engineer students to have a single purple-velvet stripe round the sleeve of the tunic, and the students in naval construction to have a silver-grey stripe.

Estimated cost of uniform, to last three years with care, about £18.

Patterns of the several articles of uniform are kept, and can be seen, at the Admiralty, Whitehall, and at the offices of the Naval Commanders-in-Chief at Sheerness, Portsmouth, and Devonport.

List of Articles required as an Outfit for an Engineer Student on joining the Training School at Keyham. Estimated cost, about £15: Two white-flannel shirts, two white-flannel trousers, six white shirts, six coloured shirts, twelve collars, three nightshirts, six pairs merino socks, four pairs cotton or merino drawers, four merino vests, two neckties, two pairs braces, six white handkerchiefs, six coloured handkerchiefs, six towels, one clothes-brush, one sponge, one leather bag, one brush and comb, one tooth- and one nail-brush, three pairs boots, one pair slippers, two pairs gloves.

The probable annual expense attending renewals of uniforms and other clothes, washing, subscription to recreative fund, &c., is estimated to be about £25.

52. Students will be required to find their own books, and a list will be furnished to each on appointment. They will also be required to find their own stationery and drawing materials.

53. The foregoing regulations will be regularly followed, but my Lords will modify them from time to time as may be considered desirable.

Medical Examinations.

54. With a view to prevent parents and guardians from incurring the inconvenience and expense of preparing candidates for entrance as engineer students in Her Majesty’s navy who may be physically unfit for the service, it is suggested that the candidates be submitted to examination by the medical adviser of the family, or any other qualified medical practitioner, to whom the following points may be submitted as those upon which they will be physically examined by naval medical officers. It is to be understood that this private examination is merely suggested as a guide to parents and guardians, and to lessen the chances of disappointment, and that it is by no means intended to take the place of, or to influence in any way, the regular official physical examination:—

A weak constitution, arising from imperfect development or weakness of the physical powers of the body, either hereditary, or from chronic disease, wounds, or injuries:

Chronic eruptions on the skin or scalp:

Malformation of the head, with a dry, harsh, divergent state of the hair of the scalp, fracture or depression of the bones of the skull, disordered intellect, imbecility, epilepsy, paralysis, or impediment of speech:

Blindness or defective vision, as tested by Snellen’s test types, in one or both eyes, fistula lachrymalis, and ptosis:

• Assistant engineers appointed from engineer students, entered before the 1st July, 1887, come under the regulations under which they entered.

Impaired hearing, or discharge from one or both ears, disease or thickening of the lining membrane of the external ear:

Disease of the bones of the nose or of its cartilages, and polypus:

Disease of the throat, palate, or tonsils; unsound teeth, offensive breath from constitutional causes, unhealthy gums, scrofulous diseases of the glands of the throat or neck, external cicatrices from scrofulous sores:

Functional or organic disease of the heart or blood-vessels, deformity or contraction of the chest, flattening of the subclavicular regions, phthisis, hæmoptysis, bronchitis, dyspnoea, aphonia, chronic cough, or other symptoms of tubercular exudation into the pulmonary tissues:

Swelling or distension of the abdomen, undue obesity; disease or enlargement of the liver, spleen, or kidneys; rupture, weakness, or distension of the abdominal rings; vesical weakness, or incontinence:

The existence of any congenital defect, or of varicocele:

Any disease of or pertaining to the alimentary canal:

Paralysis, weakness, impaired motion, or contraction of the upper or lower extremities, from whatever cause; aneurism, a varicose state of the veins, especially of the leg; bunions, distortion, malformation of the feet, or malposition of the fingers or toes:

Distortion of the spine, of the bones of the chest, or pelvis, from injury or constitutional defect.

By command of their Lordships.

EVAN MACGREGOR.

NOTE.—Appended to these regulations is a memorandum of the several grades of engineer officers of the Royal navy, together with the scales of full and half pay and other information, and also information as to the pay, &c., of the officers of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors.

The papers set at the examination of April, 1889, have been published by the Civil Service Commissioners, and are sold, price 6d., by Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, East Harding Street, Fetter Lane, London, E.C.; Messrs. Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, Edinburgh; and Messrs. Hodges, Figgis, and Co., 104, Grafton Street, Dublin.

MEMORANDUM AS TO THE PAY, ETC., OF ENGINEER OFFICERS OF ROYAL NAVY.

• The pay of probationary assistant engineers is 6s. a day.

Chief engineers are allowed to reckon junior service on the following scale for increase of full pay and half-pay and retirement:—

Under 11 years’ service in senior rank, one-half junior service besides.

Above 11 years’ service in senior rank, all junior service which is allowed to count.

Junior service is all confirmed time served as assistant engineer, and engineer from the age of 20.

Charge Pay.

Chief engineers and engineers when in charge of machinery of ships in commission are allowed—