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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1866.
6. No candidate will be allowed any marks in respect of any subject of Examination, unless he shall be considered to possess a competent knowledge of that subject.*
7. The Examination will be conducted by means of printed questions and written answers, and by viva voce Examina tion, as may be deemed necessary.
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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 candidates who shall have obtained 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 selectei candidates for the Civil Service of India. They shall be permitted to choose, according to the order in which they stand, as long as a choice remains, the Presidency (and in Bengal, the division of the Presidency) to which they shall be appointed.
9. Selected candidates before proceeding to India will be on probation for two years, during which time they will be examined periodically with the view of testing their progress in the following subjects:-
1. Oriental Languages:
Sanskrit
Vernacular Languages of India (each). 2. The History and Geography of India 3. Law
4. Political Economy
Marks.
500
400
350
.1,250
350
In these Examinations, as in the open competition, the merit of the candidates examined will be estimated by marks, anı! the number set opposite to each subject denotes the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it at any one Examination. The Examination will be conducted by means of printed questions and written answers, and by vicâ voce Examination, as may be deemed necessary. The marks obtained at each of such periodical Examinations will be added to those previously or subsequently obtained. The last of these Examinations will be held at the close of the second year of probation, and will be called the "Final Examination." By the merit then shown it will be decided whether a selected candidate is qualified for the Civil Service of India.
10. No candidate will be permitted to proceed to Tadia until he shall have passed the Final Examination, and received a certificate of qualification from the Civil Service Commissioners, or after he shall have attained the age of twenty four
years.
11. The selected candidates who at the Final Examination shall be found to have a competent knowledge of the subjects specified in Regulation 9, shall be adjudged to have passed, and to be entitled to be appointed to the Civil Service of India.
12. The seniority in the Civil Service of India of the selected candidates shall be determined according to the order in which they stand on the list resulting from the Final Examination.
13. No person will, even after passing the Final Examination, be allowed to proceed to India, unless he shall comply with the regulations in force, at the time, for the Civil Service of India, and shall be of sound bodily health and good morál character. The Civil Service Commissioners will require sach further evidence on these points as they may deem necessary before granting their Certificate of Qualification.
14. Applications from persons desirous to be admitted as candidates are to be addressed to the Secretary to the Civil Service Commissioners, Dean's Yard, London, S.W.
15th June, 1866.
NOTE (1) The Secretary of State for India in Council has authorized the Civil Service Commissioners to state that it is his intention to allow the sum of 1001. for the first year of probation, and 2001. for the second year to each selected candidate who shall have passed the required Examinations to the satisfaction of the Commissioners, and shall have complied with such rules és may be laid down for the guidance of selected candidates.
(2.) All selected candidates will be required, after having passed the second periodical Examination, to attend at the India Office, to make the necessary arrangements for entering into covenants (binding themselves, amongst other things, to refund in certain cases the amount of their allowance in the event of their failing to proceed to India), and for giving a bond for 1,0001, jointly with two sureties, for the due fulfilment of the same. The stamps payable by civilians on their appointment amount to 31. 10s.
(3.) Candidates rejected at the Final Examination of 1869 will in no case he allowed to present themselves for
re-examination.
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Nothing can be further from our wish than to hold out premiums for knowledge of wide surface and of small depth. We are of opinisa "that a Candidate ought to be allowed no credit at all for taking up a subject in which he is more smatterer.”——Report of Committee of 1854.
+ Full instructions as to the course of study to be pursued will be issued to the successful candidates as soon as possible after the result of the open competition is declared.
No. 131.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
At the request of Commodore JONES, the following Hydrographic Notice is published for the information of Mariners, and others whom it may concern.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th September, 1866.
HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE.
“RIFLEMAN'S" SURVEYS.
CHINA SEA.-SHEET II.
W. H. RENNIE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Fiery Cross or N.W. Investigator Reef:---Dangerous Rock near the Southern Fury Patchoff Labuan.
THE FIERY CROSS OR N.W. INVESTIGATOR REEF-is an extensive Coral Bank, having several dry patches upon
it
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