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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 87

will be announced beforehand by the Civil Service Commissioners.

2. No person will be deemed qualified who shall not satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners,--

(i.) That he is a natural-born subject of His Majesty.

(ii.) That he had attained the age of twenty-two and had not attained the age of twenty-four on the 1st day of August of the year in which the examination is held.

[N.B.—In the case of Natives of India it will be necessary for a candidate to obtain a certificate of age and nationality issued under Notification of the Government of India, No. 2252, dated 21st August, 1888, as amended by Notification No. 404, dated 19th May, 1898, and signed, should he be a resident in British India, by the Secretary to Government of the province, or the Commissioner of the division, within which his family resides, or, should he reside in a Native State, by the highest political officer accredited to the State in which his family resides.

(iii.) That he has no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity unfitting him, or likely to unfit him, for the Civil Service of India.

(iv.) That he is of good moral character.

3. Should the evidence upon the above points be prima facie satisfactory to the Civil Service Commissioners, the candidate, on payment of the prescribed fee, will be admitted to the examination. The Commissioners may, however, in their discretion, at any time prior to the grant of the certificate of qualification hereinafter referred to, institute such further inquiries as they may deem necessary; and if the result of such inquiries, in the case of any candidate, should be unsatisfactory to them in any of the above respects, he will be ineligible for admission to the Civil Service of India, and, if already selected, will be removed from the position of a probationer.

4. The open competitive examination will take place only in the following thirty-three subjects*:

Marks.

1. English composition .. .. .. 500
2. Sanskrit language and literature .. .. 600
3. Arabic language and literature .. .. 600
   Greek, not less than two subdivisions, of which one must be translation:—
4. Translation .. .. .. 300
5. Composition .. .. .. 300
6. Literature .. .. .. 300
   Latin, not less than two subdivisions, of which one must be translation:—
7. Translation .. .. .. 300
8. Composition .. .. .. 300
9. Literature .. .. .. 300
10. English language and literature .. .. 600
11. Italian language and literature .. .. 600
12. French language and literature .. .. 600
13. German language and literature .. .. 600
14. Lower mathematics .. .. .. 1,200
15. Higher mathematics .. .. .. 1,200
    Natural science—i.e., any number not exceeding four of the following:—
16. Chemistry .. .. .. 600
17. Physics .. .. .. 600
18. Geology .. .. .. 600
19. Botany .. .. .. 600
20. Zoology .. .. .. 600
21. Animal physiology .. .. .. 600
22. Geography .. .. .. 600
23. Greek history (ancient, including constitution) 500
24. Roman history (ancient, including constitution) .. .. .. 500
    English history (either or both sections may be taken):—
25. Section I. To A.D. 1485 .. .. 400
26. Section II. A.D. 1485 to 1848 .. .. 400
27. General modern history .. .. 500
28. Logic and psychology .. .. 600
29. Moral and metaphysical philosophy .. .. 600
30. Political economy and economic history .. .. 600
31. Political science .. .. .. 500
32. Roman law .. .. .. 500
33. English law .. .. .. 500

Consistently with the limitations specified above, candidates are at liberty to name any of these subjects, provided that the maximum number of marks that can be obtained from the subjects chosen is limited to 6,000. If this maximum is exceeded by a candidate’s selection he will be required to indicate one of his subjects the marks for which should in his case be reduced so as to bring his maximum marks within the prescribed limit. The marks so reduced will be subject to a correspondingly reduced deduction under clause 6.

5. The merit of the persons examined will be estimated by marks*; and the number set opposite to each subject in the preceding regulation denotes the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it.

6. From the marks assigned to candidates in each subject will be made such deduction as the Civil Service Commissioners may deem necessary in order to secure that no credit be allowed for merely superficial knowledge.

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 mentioned, 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.

9. Selected candidates, before proceeding to India, will be on probation for one year, at the end of which time they will be examined, with a view of testing their progress in the following subjects†:—

Compulsory—

Marks.

1. Indian Penal Code .. .. .. 400
2. Code of Criminal Procedure .. .. 200
3. The Indian Evidence Act .. .. 200
4. Indian history .. .. .. 400

‡5. The principal vernacular language of the province to which the candidate is assigned .. .. .. 400

Optional [not more than one of the following subjects]—

Marks.

1. Hindu and Mohammadan law .. .. 450
   §2. Sanskrit .. .. .. 400
   §3. Arabic .. .. .. 400
2. Persian .. .. .. 400
3. Hindustani (for candidates assigned to the Province of Burma only) .. .. 400

In this examination, as in the open competition, the merit of the candidates examined will be estimated by marks (which will be subject to deductions in the same way as the marks assigned at the open competition), and the number set opposite to each subject denotes the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it. The examination will be conducted on paper and vivâ voce, as may be deemed necessary. This examination will be held at the close of the year of probation, and will be called the “final examination.”

If any candidate is prevented by sickness or any other adequate cause from attending such examination, the Commissioners may, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State for India in Council, allow him to appear at the final examination to be held in the following year, or at a special examination.

10. The selected candidates will also be tested during their probation as to their proficiency in riding.

The examinations in riding will be held as follows:—

(1.) Shortly after the result of the open competitive examination has been declared, or at such time or times as the Commissioners may appoint during the course of the probationary year.

(2.) Again at the time of the final examination. Candidates who may then fully satisfy the Commis-

• Considerable deductions will be made for bad handwriting.

† Instructions, showing the extent of the examination, will be issued to selected candidates as soon as possible after the result of the open competition is declared.

‡ The principal vernacular language prescribed for each province to which candidates are assigned is as follows:—

For the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, the Punjab, and the Central Provinces—Hindustani.

For Bengal—Hindustani or Bengali (at the option of the candidate).

For Eastern Bengal and Assam—Bengali (unless it is the candidate’s mother-tongue).

For Burma—Burmese.

For Bombay—Marathi.

For Madras—Tamil or Telugu (at the option of the candidate).

In Hindustani the candidate will be required to be acquainted with both the Persian and the Nagari character.

A candidate assigned to Eastern Bengal and Assam whose mother-tongue is Bengali must offer for examination Hindustani, and a candidate assigned to Madras or Bengal whose mother-tongue is either of the languages shown against his province must offer the other for examination.

§ These subjects may not be offered by any candidate who has offered them at the open competition.

• A syllabus defining the character of the examination in the various subjects may be obtained on application to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London W.