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training-school as soon as possible after they have been
found medically fit.

13. The successful candidates will be entered as engineer
    students in Her Majesty's navy on the 1st July in each year,
    and will be borne on the books of the dépôt ship at Devon-
    port for disciplinary purposes. The period of training at
    Her Majesty's dockyard at Devonport will be for five years,
    but it will be reduced to four years in the case of engineer
    students who pass the examination described in paragraph 31,
    clause 1, pass very creditably in practical workmanship,
    professional subjects, and knowledge of engine-room duties
    referred to in paragraph 34, and whose conduct and cha-
    racter are satisfactory. (See paragraph 25.)

14. Students in naval construction not exceeding two in
    number annually may be appointed from among engineer
    students who have shown special ability at the end of their
    second year of service. The students in naval construction,
    on appointment, must join with their parents or guardians
    in a bond for £500 to enter, if required, into Her Majesty's
    service as assistant constructors, if at the expiration of their
    training they should obtain certificates of good conduct and
    efficiency for entry in that capacity. They will continue to
    be under naval discipline until their entry as assistant con-
    structors. (See paragraphs 45 and 47.)

A form of the required bond is set out in the Schedule
hereto.

An assistant constructor will not be permitted to leave the
service until seven years have expired after the completion
of his term at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, unless
he shall pay the sum of £500. This payment is for the pur-
pose of defraying the charges incurred by the public for his
education.

15. Students in naval construction will complete five
    years' service at Devonport in the training-school for engi-
    neer students, and will be subject to the same conditions
    as to fees, pay, uniform, and other details as may be pre-
    scribed from time to time for engineer students. Their
    course of instruction will be laid down from time to time.
    (See also paragraphs 42 to 51.)

16. The parent or guardian of each engineer student en-
    tered will be required to pay the sum of £40 per annum for
    each year the student may be under training—four, five, or
    six* years as the case may be. It will, however, be at the
    discretion of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
    select from among the students entered at each yearly ex-
    amination a number not to exceed five, being sons of offi-
    cers of the navy, army, or Royal marines, or of civil officers
    under the Board of Admiralty, with respect to whom the
    annual payment will be £25 only. Their Lordships also re-
    serve the power to further reduce this latter sum in the case
    of sons of officers killed or drowned, or who have otherwise
    lost their lives on service. In making their selection, my
    Lords will have regard solely to the pecuniary circumstances
    of the parents or guardians of the students.

17. The payments are to be made half-yearly, in advance,
    to the Cashier of Her Majesty's Dockyard at Devonport; the
    first payment is to be made on or before the 1st July, the
    date of entry of the student, and the subsequent payments
    on or before the 1st January and 1st July during the re-
    mainder of the student's training. Should a student leave
    from any cause, or be dismissed from the service, not any
    portion of the payments that have been made in his behalf
    will be refunded.

18. The parents or guardians of the students will also be
    required to provide the uniform (see paragraph 52) or other
    clothing, washing, and necessaries of each student. Board
    and lodging and medical attendance will be provided by the
    Admiralty. The students will be required to reside in the
    training-school at Keyham.

19. The weekly pay of students during their training will
    be as follows, provided they are well reported on by the
    officers:—

First year .. .. .. 1s. a week.
Second year .. .. .. 2s. "
Third year .. .. .. 3s. "
Fourth year .. .. .. 5s. "
Fifth year .. .. .. 8s. "

20. Six weeks' leave (thirty-six working-days) on full pay
    will be granted each year to all students whose conduct and
    progress have been satisfactory. Those who cannot be so
    reported will be granted leave for smaller periods, which will
    be at the discretion of the Admiral Superintendent. This
    leave is to be taken during the school vacations—viz., four
    weeks at midsummer and two weeks at Christmas.

21. Every engineer student, on first joining, or on return-
    ing to the "training-school" after the vacations, will be
    required to produce a health certificate—signed by his
    parent or guardian not earlier than the day before his
    return to the "training-school"—to the effect that, so far as
    is known to his parent or guardian, he has not for at least
    three weeks immediately preceding his return been exposed
    to any infectious disease, or entered any house where such
    disease has existed. A certificate, drawn up in the neces-
    sary form, will be sent to each parent, and failure on the
    part of the engineer student to produce this certificate,
    duly filled up and signed, on his return to the "training-
    school" will entail his being isolated until the certificate is
    received.

22. The students are not to be checked pay while on leave,
    nor when hurt on duty. When sick or sent to hospital from
    causes beyond their own control they are not to be checked
    of their pay until they have been absent for six months
    in the aggregate during any period of twelve months; at
    the expiration of this time a special report is to be made
    to their Lordships. When sick or sent to hospital from
    causes within their own control they are to be checked of
    their pay. Students pronounced at the end of twelve
    months' absence on account of sickness or hurt to be per-
    manently unfit or unlikely to be capable of entering Her
    Majesty's service as assistant engineers, or as assistant con-
    structors, will be discharged. Should any student in the
    course of his training develop physical unfitness for the
    service he will be discharged.

23. The students will be under the supervision of the
    Superintendent of the Dockyard and a staff of officers, and
    subject to such rules and regulations as their Lordships may
    deem necessary.

24. Students will receive practical training in the engi-
    eering workshops, will spend a portion of their time in the
    drawing office, and will receive instruction in iron shipbuild-
    ing at Her Majesty's dockyard at Devonport. While the
    engineer students are being instructed in iron shipbuilding
    they are to be under the direction of the Chief Constructor.
    They will attend the Engineer Students' School in the dock-
    yard for such periods, and for the study of such theoretical
    subjects, as may from time to time be determined on.
    Means will be afforded them of acquiring the groundwork of
    the knowledge required by a naval engineer respecting the
    working of marine engines and boilers, including those re-
    pairs which can be carried out afloat, the practical use of
    the various instruments used in the engine-room, also of the
    construction and working of electric light, torpedo, and gun-
    machinery, and of becoming generally acquainted with the
    duties of a naval engineer.

25. The cases of those students who fail to make satis-
    factory progress and give no hope of becoming efficient
    officers, or are guilty of persistent misconduct, will be con-
    sidered annually with reference to the discharge of such
    students from the service.

In the event of serious misconduct on the part of senior
engineer students, which may not be of such a nature as to
necessitate their dismissal, their appointments will be with-
held, as may be considered necessary by their Lordships, from
three to nine months after their passing for the rank of pro-
bationary assistant engineer on the completion of their five
years' period of training. In such cases they will be em-
ployed in workshops only, and whilst thus under observation
their conduct will be reported to the Admiralty quarterly.

Appointments as probationary assistant engineer will not
be granted to any students of four years' service whose
character and conduct are considered by their Lordships
to have been unsatisfactory during the preceding twelve
months.

26. Students will be examined once a year under the
    direction of the President of the Royal Naval College,
    Greenwich.

27. The preliminary examination at the end of the second
    year of service will be as follows, subject to modification at
    any time, if considered desirable:—

Marks.
Arithmetic and mensuration .. .. .. 600
Algebra .. .. .. .. .. 500
Euclid I. to IV., VI., XI. .. .. .. 500
Trigonometry .. .. .. .. 500
Chemistry .. .. .. .. .. 300
Physics .. .. .. .. .. 600
History and geography .. .. .. .. 500
[Required for passing, 1,400] Total .. .. 3,500

Additional Subjects.
French .. .. .. .. .. 400
Elementary statics and hydrostatics .. .. 500

28. Students who fail to pass the examination will be dis-
    charged, unless for satisfactory reasons their Lordships
    sanction their remaining on the lower division for another
    year.

29. Students will also be examined in practical engineering
    at the end of their second year of service, and be required to
    reach a standard of 30 per cent. Those failing to attain
    this standard will be liable to dismissal. They will also be
    examined as to their practical acquirements and knowledge
    of steam machinery and shipbuilding respectively at the end
    of the third, fourth, and fifth years of their service by officers