Oct. 30.]

A manual of rules and regulations applicable to members
of the Civil Service of India has been compiled by permission
of the Government of India, and may now be procured from
the undermentioned agents for the sale of Indian official publications. Price 2s. 6d. LONDON: A. Constable & Co., 10
Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C.; P. S. King & Son, 2
and 4 Great Smith Street, Westminster, S.W.; Kegan Paul,
Trench, Trübner & Co., 68 Carter Lane, E.C.; B. Quaritch,
11 Grafton Street, New Bond Street, W.; Henry S. King &
Co., 65 Cornhill, E.C.; Grindlay & Co., 54 Parliament
Street, S.W.; T. Fisher Unwin, 1 Adelphi Terrace, W.C.;
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& Co., 46 Great Russell Street, W.C.* EDINBURGH: Oliver
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116 Grafton Street. OXFORD: B. H. Blackwell, 50 and 51
Broad Street. CAMBRIDGE: Deighton, Bell & Co., Trinity
Street. GERMANY: Friedländer & Sohn, 11 Carl-Strasse,
Berlin, N.W., 6; Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig; Karl W.
Hiersemann, 29 Konigstrasse, Leipzig. FRANCE: Ernest
Leroux, Rue Bonaparte, Paris. HOLLAND: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague.

The Commissioners have been requested by the Secretary
of State for India to draw the attention of selected candidates to the prefatory note attached to this manual, as it is
considered important that it should be clearly understood
that this compilation is not to be regarded in any other
light than that of a collection, made for facility of reference,
of certain information and rules, that it is by no means
exhaustive, and that it is liable to such modifications as may
from time to time be sanctioned by competent authority.

CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

OPEN COMPETITION OF 1914.—FORM TO BE FILLED UP BY
CANDIDATES FOR EXAMINATION.

** The order for admission to the examination will not be
issued unless this form, filled up by the candidate himself, is received by the Secretary of the Civil Service
Commission on or before the 1st June, 1914.

This application form relates only to the competition for
the Civil Service of India, and does not entitle a candidate
to compete also for the Home or colonial service. Intending
candidates for either or both of these services must obtain
the proper form or forms of application and forward them so
as to reach the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, on or
before 1st June.

SIR,—I beg to inform you that I wish to be admitted to
the Open Competitive examination for the Civil Service of
India, which is appointed to commence in London on the
1st of August, 1914.

I am a natural-born subject of His Majesty. [Candidates
not born within the British dominions should state this fact
in a separate letter.]

I hereby declare that I was born on the day of
, 18 , and that therefore I shall have attained the age
of twenty-two years and shall not have attained the age of
twenty-four years on the 1st of August, 1914; I also declare
that I have no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily
infirmity unfitting me, or likely to unfit me, for the Civil
Service of India; and that I am of good moral character,
and otherwise eligible under the regulations; and I undertake that, if I am successful, I will conform, during my
period of probation, to such rules respecting the conduct of
public servants as have been laid down, or may hereafter be
laid down, by the Secretary of State for India in Council.

I send herewith a certificate of age and nationality, issued
in accordance with the rule respecting Natives of India
printed in paragraph 3 of rules attached. [Candidates who
are not Natives of India should strike out this paragraph.]

I beg to inform you that I was* examined before
the Civil Service Commissioners in the month of† in
the year 1 , as a candidate for the situation of

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

(Name in full.)

Address to which it is desired that the order for examination
should be sent:†

(Date.)

The Secretary, Civil Service Commission.

Certificates of age (except as mentioned above), health,
and character should not be supplied until after the result
of the examination is known.

N.B.—Attention is drawn to the annexed selection form,
which must be filled up by every candidate.

• If you have never been examined, insert here the word “never.”
  † If you have been examined, give the date, &c., of the last
  occasion.
  ‡ If a London address, state the postal district; if a country
  address, state the post-town.

If an open competitive examination for clerkships (Class I)
in the Home Civil Service should be appointed to be held in
August, 1914, I request that a prescribed form of application*
may be forwarded to me when ready for issue.

(Signature.)

If an open competitive examination for Eastern cadet-
ships should be appointed to be held in August, 1914, I re-
quest that a prescribed form of application* may be forwarded
to me when ready for issue.

(Signature.)

EVIDENCE OF AGE TO BE REQUIRED FROM CANDIDATES FOR
THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

1. Every candidate born in the United Kingdom should be
   prepared to produce, when required, a certificate from the
   Registrar-General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, or from
   one of his provincial officers. This certificate may be obtained from the Registrar-General in London, Dublin, or
   Edinburgh, or from the Superintendent Registrar of the
   district in which the birth took place.

2. A candidate born of European parents in India should
   be prepared to produce, when required, a certificate of
   baptism from the district in which he was baptized. If this
   does not also mention the date of birth it should be accompanied by a statutory declaration by one of the candidate’s
   parents, stating the date and place of birth. When such
   certificate is not in the possession of the candidate an
   extract from the registers kept at the India Office will
   probably be obtainable.

3. A candidate who is a Native of India must, on or
   before the 1st June, 1914, produce 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.
   No other certificates will be accepted for this competition.

To be filled up by the candidate himself, and returned with
the Form of Application.

CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

OPEN COMPETITION OF 1914.

SELECTION FORM.

• • Place your initials against the subjects which you select;
    if your selections exceed 6,000 marks indicate the
    subject which is to be reduced; and sign your name
    in the place indicated.

Maximum
Marks.

1. English composition ... 500
2. Sanskrit language and literature ... 800
3. Arabic language and literature ... 800
   Greek, not less than two subdivisions, of
   which one must be translation:
4. Translation ... 400
5. Prose composition ... 200
6. Verse composition ... 200
7. Literature, &c. ... 300
   Latin, not less than two subdivisions, of
   which one must be translation:
8. Translation ... 400
9. Prose composition ... 200
10. Verse composition ... 200
11. Literature, &c. ... 300
12. English language and literature ... 600
13. Italian, translation, composition, and conversation ... 400
14. Italian, history of the language and literature ... 200
15. French, translation, composition, and conversation ... 400
16. French, history of the language and literature ... 200
17. German, translation, composition, and conversation ... 400
18. German, history of the language and literature ... 200
19. Lower mathematics ... 1,200
20. Higher mathematics ... 1,200

• These forms will be ready about Easter, 1914.
  † The history of these languages and their literatures can only be
  taken by candidates who also offer themselves for the rest of the
  examination in those languages.