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demanding a knowledge of the language in its early stages; but it will not be obligatory upon candidates to master in detail the old forms in use before 1500. Candidates will not be required to write their answers in Spanish.

Civil Service Commission, July, 1913.

EXAMINATIONS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

An open competitive examination for admission to the Civil Service of India will be held in London, under the subjoined regulations, commencing on the 1st August, 1914.

The number of persons to be selected at this examination will be announced hereafter.

No person will be admitted to compete from whom the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, has not received on or before the 1st June, 1914, an application on the prescribed form, a copy of which is sent herewith. No allegation that an application form or a letter respecting such form has been lost or delayed in the post will be considered by the Commissioners unless the person making such allegation produces a post-office certificate of posting. Candidates, who delay their applications until the last days will do so at their own risk.

Acknowledgments of such application forms are sent, and any candidate who has filled up and returned the printed application form but has not received an acknowledgment of it within four complete days should at once write to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens, London W. Failure to comply with this provision will deprive the candidate of any claim to consideration.

The order for admission to the examination will be posted early in July, 1914, to the address given on the form of application. It will contain instructions as to the time and place at which candidates will be required to attend and as to the manner in which the fee (£6) is to be paid.

Civil Service Commission, July 1913.

REGULATIONS.

** The following regulations, made by the Secretary of State for India in Council, are liable to alteration from year to year.

1. An examination for admission to the Civil Service of India, open to all qualified persons, will be held in London in August of each year for such number of appointments to that Service as the Secretary of State may on each occasion determine. The date of the examination and the number of appointments to be made for each province 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. No person who, in a previous year, accepted the offer of a nomination as a selected candidate for the Civil Service of India, and subsequently resigned his position as a selected candidate, will be admitted to the examination.

4. 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.

5. The open competitive examination will take place only in the following thirty-eight subjects* :—

Marks.

1. English composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .