7. Registered copyists will be summoned for employment in any of the Public Temporary Departments as they are wanted. When not wanted, they will have no claim to Copyists. employment. Refusing to serve when called upon, except for reasons satisfactory to the Civil Service Commissioners, they will be removed from the register. The order in which they may be employed, the Departments to which they may be assigned, and their retention generally on the register, will be determined by the Civil Service Commissioners; but they will be subject to the orders of the Departments in which they are serving during the time of their actual employment, and will be liable to dismissal from them by the authorities thereof, without notice, for inefficiency or misconduct. 8. Copyists may be engaged by the hour, day, or week, or by the piece. The engagement of all copyists, not engaged for a shorter period, will be by the week. Copyists engaged for a day or upwards will ordinarily be employed for the number of hours constituting the official day in the Department to which they are attached, but if they are required to give their services after official hours, they must do so, and they will be paid at the same rate, whether by the hour or by the piece, as in the official hours. A copyist refusing to work after official hours on these terms without an excuse satisfactory to the authorities of the Department will be liable to dismissal by them without notice. 9. Men copyists will be paid either at the rate of 10d. per hour, or at the rate of 1d. for every 100 words well and correctly copied, as the authorities of the Department for which they are required may determine. Other rates for special kinds of work may be determined by the Civil Service Commissioners, with the previous approval of the Commissioners of the Treasury; but copyists, as a rule, are not meant to be employed upon any work except mere copying, or routine work under the direct supervision of established officers. 10. No service, however much it may happen to be prolonged, will confer any claim to superannuation or compensation allowance. 11. The pay of boy copyists will commence at the rate of 4d. per hour; an addition of d. per hour may be allowed by the Civil Service Commissioners at the end of each year of approved service. Should any boy copyists be engaged by the piece they will be paid at such rates as may be fixed by the Civil Service Commissioners, with the approval of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. Boy copyists will not be retained, as such, after they shall have reached the age of 19. 12. If a public holiday, on which the office is closed, fall within the period of a copyist's engagement, he may be paid in respect of it as for a working day. Copyists may, with the consent of the Department in which they are serving, or, if not at the time serving, with the consent of the Civil Service Commissioners, be allowed holidays, with pay, at the rate for the official day, in the proportion of one day for every 24 full days of actual and approved service previously rendered by them as registered copyists. No copyist shall be allowed to take more than 12 days' leave under these conditions, between the 1st day of January and the 31st day of December, both days inclusive, in any one year. In calculating the leave to be allowed in any given year, no service shall be counted before the 1st day of January of the preceding year. 13. Copyists who may fall ill while serving in any Department, and whose illness may be attested by medical certificate to the satisfaction of the authorities of such Department, may be allowed sick-leave, receiving three-fourths of the rate of pay for the official day; provided such copyists have been borne on the register one year or upwards, and provided that no copyist shall be paid for holidays and sick-leave, taken together, for more than 28 days within any one year, exclusive of public holidays. 14. Except in conformity with regulations 12 and 13, copyists will only receive pay for the hours, or parts of hours, during which they actually attend. 15. No person who has been trained, either wholly or partially, at the public expense, for the occupation of a teacher in schools in connexion with the Committee of Council for Education, or the Board of National Education, Ireland, is eligible for employment as a copyist, until the consent of those Departments, given in conformity with rules sanctioned by the Lords of the Treasury, has been notified to the Civil Service Commissioners. Persons employed in any branch of the public service, whether civil, naval, or military, will not be eligible, unless they shall have produced to the Civil Service Commissioners at or before the time of examination the written consent of the authorities under whom they may be serving. 16. Copyists are not intended to travel during an engagement, nor will they, as a rule, be required to accept engagements at a distance from their residence; but any copyist who may be ordered to travel will be allowed such reasonable and customary expenses as the Lords of the Treasury may in each case approve. 21st January 1878. Clerk in Solicitor's Office, Post Office, Dublin. Clerk in Solicitor's Office, Treasury, &c. SPECIAL REGULATIONS (Supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April N.B.-These Regulations apply to the present Examination only. I. No candidate will be eligible whose age on the first day of the examination is less than 20 or more than 30. II. No candidate will be eligible to compete who has not been, or is not qualified to be, admitted to practise as a solicitor in Ireland; and no candidate will be eligible for appointment until he has actually been so admitted. III. The examination will be in the following subjects, viz. :— Obligatory Subjects: 1. Handwriting. 2. Orthography. 3. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 4. English Composition. 5. Criminal Law, and Proceedings before Justices of the Peace in Ireland. 6. Law of Evidence. 7. Common Law Procedure and Practice. 8. Elements of Conveyancing. Optional Subjects: 9. Geography. 10. English History. 11. Latin. 12. French or German. 13. Mercantile Book-keeping. 14. Equity and Practice of the Courts. 15. Bankruptcy and Practice of the Courts. IV. A fee of 27. will be required from each candidate attending the examination. 4th March 1878. SPECIAL REGULATIONS (Supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April N.B. These Regulations are liable to alteration for future Examinations. II. No candidate will be eligible who has not within the last five years had at least three years experience as a solicitor, or as an articled clerk in a solicitor's office. III. The examination will be in the following subjects, viz. : Obligatory Subjects: 1. Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. English Composition. 4. Criminal Law, and Proceedings before Justices of the Peace. 5. Law of Evidence. 6. Common Law Procedure and Practice. 7. Elements of Conveyancing. Optional Subjects: 8. Geography. 9. English History. 10. Latin. 11. French or German. 12. Mercantile Book-keeping. 13. Equity and Practice of the Courts. 14. Bankruptcy and Practice of the Courts. IV. A fee of 21. will be required from each candidate attending the examination. Civil Service Commission, S. W., 26th April 1878. SPECIAL REGULATIONS (Supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April Supplementary N.B.-These Regulations are liable to alteration for future Examinations. I. The limits of age for these situations are 18 and 30, and candidates must be of the prescribed age on the first day of the examination. II. No candidate will be eligible who has not within the last five years served for at least two years as a clerk (not articled) in a solicitor's office. III. The examination will be in the following subjects, viz. :- 1. Handwriting. 2. Orthography. 3. Arithmetic (to Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 4. English Composition. Candidates failing in any of the above-named subjects will not be eligible. IV. A fee of 108. will be required from each candidate attending the examination. 26th April 1878. SPECIAL REGULATIONS (supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April Indexing and N.B.-These Regulations are liable to alteration. 1. The limits of age for these situations are 21 and 25, and candidates must be of the prescribed age on the first day of the competitive examination. 2. At the competitive examinations exercises will be set in the following subjects 6. Electricity and Magnetism. 7. Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, and Pneumatics. Candidates must pass to the satisfaction of the Civil Service Commissioners in one of the subjects numbered 4 and 5 according to the nature of the situation vacant, i.e., according as the duties to be performed render a knowledge of Mechanics and Mechanism or of Chemistry absolutely necessary. The remaining subjects are optional. 3. No candidate can be admitted to the competition who has not previously satisfied the Civil Service Commissioners that he possesses the requisite amount of proficiency in the following subjects : 1. Handwriting. 2. Orthography. 3. Arithmetic (to Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 4. English Composition. With this view, preliminary examinations in these subjects will be held at such times and places as the Commissioners may appoint. Application for permission to attend one of these preliminary examinations must be made in the writing of the candidate, at such times and in such manner as may be fixed by the Commissioners. 4. A fee of 11. will be required from every candidate attending a preliminary examination, and a further fee of 31. from every candidate who may be admitted to the competition. Civil Service Commission, London, S.W., 4th May 1878. Clerks in Metropolitan Police Courts. SPECIAL REGULATIONS (supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April N.B.-These Regulations are liable to alteration for future Examinations. I. The limits of age for these situations are 18 and 24, and candidates must be of the prescribed age on the first day of the examination. II. The examination will be in the following subjects, viz. : 1. Handwriting. 2. Orthography. 3. Arithmetic. 4. Copying MS. (to test accuracy). 5. English Composition. 6. Geography. 7. Indexing or Docketing. 8. Digesting Returns into Summaries. 9. English History. 10. Book-keeping. 11. Latin. 12. Principles of Scotch Law. [The prominent parts of the leading subjects in the treatises of Bell or Erskine.] III. A fee of 10s. will be required from each candidate attending the examination. SPECIAL REGULATIONS (Supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April N.B. These Regulations are liable to alteration for future Examinations. 2. The examination will be in the following subjects, viz. :— 10. Law of Evidence. ("Powell's Principles and Practice of the Law of Evidence," by 11. Book-keeping by Single Entry. Candidates failing in any of the above subjects will not be eligible. 1. Latin (translation into English, and Grammar). 2. French (translation from and into, and Oral Examination). Not more than one of these subjects can be taken up. 3. Application for permission to attend an examination must be made at such time and in such manner as the Commissioners may appoint. 4. A fee of 21. will be required from each candidate attending the examination. Civil Service Commission, 4th July 1878. EXTRACT from the REGULATIONS respecting the ENTRY of APPRENTICES in HER Dockyard 1. Vacancies for appointments as apprentices to shipwrights and fitters in Her Majesty's dockyards at Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth, Devonport, and Pembroke are open to public competition. 2. The lists of candidates for these situations are kept at the Admiralty in London, and by the superintendents of the dockyards named in paragraph 1, to whom all applications must be sent in before the 1st of March in each year. 3. The candidates must not be less than 14 nor more than 15 years of age on the first day of the examination. Proof of age will be required by the production of a certificate of birth. A declaration before a magistrate, accompanied by a certificate of baptism, will be accepted in those cases only in which it is impossible to procure a certificate of birth. A certificate of baptism cannot be accepted under any other circumstances. The superintendent of the dockyard is to take particular care that no boy's name is forwarded to the Admiralty for examination unless his age is within the prescribed limits. 4. Candidates will be first required to satisfy the superintendents of the dockyards as regards their age, respectability, good character, and physical fitness before they can be considered eligible for entry into the dockyard. Candidates in or near London, and who elect to be examined in London, will be required to satisfy the Admiralty on the points named above. If these conditions are satisfactory, they will then be examined by the Civil Service Commissioners in educational subjects. All candidates must be children of British subjects. 5. Candidates will not be admitted for examination at the dockyards until they have been pronounced fit for Her Majesty's service by the medical officers of the yard. Candidates in or near London may be examined by the Medical Director General of the Navy at the Admiralty. The medical examination will be conducted in all respects in strict accordance with the instructions for examination of persons for admission into the naval service. Candidates should possess the following physical qualifications at the minimum age :— Height Girth of chest 4 ft. 8 in. 90 lbs. 20 ins. but a deficiency in these requisites will not exclude candidates who may be pro- 6. The examination will commence on the first Tuesday in May in each year, and will be held by the Civil Service Commissioners in London as well as at the several dockyards. 7. The following will be the subjects of examination, and the maximum number of marks for each subject: Arithmetic Orthography Handwriting Grammar English Composition Geography Apprentices, Euclid, First Three Books Algebra (up to and ineluding Quadratic Equations) Total - 1,150 8. Candidates who fail to pass in the first three subjects will be disqualified, and their other papers will not be examined. The candidates who display a competent knowledge of all the subjects named in paragraph 7 will be eligible for appointment in the various trades, according to their position on the examination lists at the several dockyards, and to the number of appointments which it may be decided to make that year. 9. Apprentices will be bound by indentures to serve for seven years, and no candidate will be entered unless some relative or friend is able and willing to undertake the duty of the second party to the indenture as to the support, &c., of the apprentice during his apprenticeship. Board wages will only be allowed in the case of boys whose fathers have died or been killed in service under the Admiralty, and |