THE
Hongkong
NEW SERIES.
Government
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, MONDAY, 7TH MARCH, 1857.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. II. No. 88.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby giren, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855..
No. 39.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency The Governor has caused to be published for general information, the following Notification as to the Examination, to take place in July, 1857, of Candidates for the Civil Service in India.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 3d March, 1857.
CIVIL SERVICE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
1. In July, 1857, an examination will take place of Candidates for Appointments to the Civil Service of the East India Company. Notice will be hereafter given of the days and place of Examination.
2. Any natural-boru subject of Her Majesty, who shall be desirous of entering the Civil Service of the East India Company, will be entitled to be examined at such Examination, provided he shall, before the 1st of May, 1857, have transmitted to the India Board, Cannon Row, Westminster :—
(a) A certificate of his birth, showing that his age, on the 1st of May, 1857, will be above Eighteen years and under Twenty-
three years.
(b) A certificate, signed by a Physician or Surgeon, of his having no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity, unfitting him
for the Civil Service of the East India Company.
(c) A certificate of good moral character, signed by the head of the School or College at which he has last received his education ; or, if he has not received education at any School or College since the year 1854, then such proof of good moral character As may be satisfactory to the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India.
A statement of those of the branches of knowledge hereinafter enumerated, in which he desires to be examined,
The Examination will take place only in the following branches of knowledge →→
English Language and Literature :—
Composition,
English Literature and History, including that of the Laws and Constitution,
Language, Literature, and History of Greece,
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Rome, France, Germany, Italy,
Mathematics, pure and mixed,
Natural Science, that is, Chemistry, Electricity and Magnetism, Natural History, Geology, and Mineralogy, Moral Science, that is, Logic, and Mental, Moral, and Political Philosophy,
Sanscrit Language and Literature,
Arabic Language and Literature,
500
1,000
1,500
750
7,50
375
875
375
1,000
500
500
375
375
6,875
4. The merit of the persons examined will be estimated by marks, according to the ordinary system in use at several of the Univer
can be obtained vities; and the number set opposite to each branch in the preceding paragraph denotes the greatest number of marks that in respect of it.
5. No Candidate will be allowed any marks in respect of any subject of Examination, unless he shall obtain, în respect of that subject, one sixth of the number of marks set against that particular subject.
6. The Examination will be conducted by means of printed questions and written answers, and by vivâ voce examination,
7. After the Examination shall have been completed, 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 twelve candidates who shall have obtained a greater aggregate umber of marks than any of the remaining candidates will be set forth in order of merit; and those twelve candidates will be appointed to the Civil Service of the East India Company, in the Presidency of Bengal, provided they comply with the regulations in force at the time for the said Service.