1242 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH NOVEMBER, 1887.
13. For all Cadets entered under these regulations, the payment will be at the rate of 70%. per annum for the period in the Britannia, to be paid half-yarly in advance to the Accountant-General of the Navy. But the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve the power of selecting, from among the Cadets entered at each half-yearly examination, a number, not to exceed 10, being sons of officers of the Navy, Army, or Marines, or of Civil Officers under the Board of Admiralty, with respect to whom the annual payment will be 401. only. In this selection their Lordships will have regard solely to the pecuniary circumstances of the Cadet.
14. The period of training on board the Britannia will be four terms; there will be two terms in each year. The first term of each year will be from February to July, the second from September to December.
The vacations will be five weeks at Christmas, two weeks at Easter, and six weeks at Midsummer. 15. (a) Examinations in Seamanship and Study will be held at the end of each term.
(b) Cadets who fail at the end of their second term to obtain 40 per cent. of marks in
Mathematical subjects will be discharged.
(c) Cadets who fail at the final examination to obtain 40 per cent. in Theoretical and 50 per
cent. in Technical subjects will be discharged.
(d) Cadets reported to the Admiralty for unsatisfactory conduct will be "warned," should they be again reported they will be discharged: any Cadet however who is reported for unsatisfactory conduct during his final term will be discharged without being allowed to present himself at the examination for passing out of the Britannia.
(e) Any Cadet who shall at any time appear to their Lordships to be unfit for the Naval Service. for any reason whatever, will be removed from the Britannia, and it must be understood that this rule will apply to those who are considered unfit from insufficient physical development or weakness of constitution, although no actual organic disease may have been developed.
16. It is to be distinctly understood that the period of training on board the Britannia is a time of probation, and the parent or guardian of every Cadet will be required to sign a declaration (on) the admission of the Cadet to the Britannia), to the effect that he shall be immediately withdrawn on the receipt of an official intimation of his being considered unfit for the Navy.
17. Cadets will, on passing out of the Britannia, rank according to the amount of sea time they obtain at their final examination, and those who obin equal amounts of sea time will rank in the order of merit in which they pass out of the Britannia.
18. The parent or guardian of every Cadet will be required to provide outfit under the regulations in force.
19. No pay or pocket money will be allowed by Government to Cadets in the Britannia.
ADMIRALTY, July 1887.
By Command of their Lordships,
EVAN MACGREGOR.
MEMORANDUM.
For the Examination to be held in November 1888, and subsequent Examinations, the following Articles will be substituted for Articles 6 and 9 of the foregoing Regulations, viz.:-
6. No candidate will be eligible for the June Examinations whose age will not be within the following limits on the 15th July following, viz., not less than 13 nor more than 14 years of age nor for the November Examinations, whose age will not be within those limits on the 15th January following.
9. Candidates will be tested by examination in the following subjects :-
i. Arithmetic including proportion, vulgar and decimal fractions, ......... ii. Algebra: including fractions, simple equations and problems, and
quadratic equations of one unknown quantity,
Marks.
250
200
iii. Geometry: Euclid, Book I., with exercises and questions,
200
iv. English: handwriting, dictation, reading with intelligence, and com-
position,
150
v. French translating French into English, and English into French;
grammatical questions, speaking, and dictation,
250
(No dictionary will be allowed, but the equivalents of the less usual words in either language will be given.)
vi. Scripture,
100