PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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TINC.O. 882
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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will be attached to one of the Public Offices, as may be directed by the Governor, in order to give them an opportunity of learning the details of public business, without interfering with their reading.
5. The Civil Service is classified as follows :-
Passed Cadets at £350 a year.
Officers of the Fourth Class.-Salary £400, rising by annual increments
of £25 to £500 a year.
Officers of the Third Class.-Salary £550, rising by annual increments •
of £50 to £700 a year.
Officers of the Second Class.-Salary £750, rising by annual increments
of £30 to £900 a year.
Officers of the First Class at Salaries varying between £1,050 and
£1,450 a year.
6. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to members of the permanent Governinent service after a period of six years' resident service in the Colony, without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months in any two years.
7. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill health an officer
may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten-full years' resident service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. No pension may exceed £1,000 per annum, whatever may be the salary of the retiring officer.
8. A deduction of four per cent. is made from the salaries of all those who enter the Ceylon Civil Service, as a contribution towards the pensions of the Avidows and orphans of Government Officers.
9. The Government of Ceylon calculates the £1 sterling at 15 rupees for the
of the payment of salary or pension in the colony. This rate is, purpose however, liable to alteration,
Colonial Office,
February 1908.
NOTE. - Further information oun le obtained on personal application at the Eastern) Department of the Colonial Offier.
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MINUTE BY THE GOVERNOR.
(Dated August 26, 1891, as amended October 29, 1896.)
Every Cadet will be required, before he can receive a substantive appointment, to pass an examination in the subjects herein after specified. If he pass at or before the examination occurring not later than 21 months from the date of his being attached to one of the public offices, his rank in the Service will count from the date of his appointment as Cadet. Otherwise, his claim to count his service will be deferred; and should he fail to pass within three years from his being attached, his pay will be withdrawn, and the Secretary of State will be recommended to cancel his appointment,
2. Gentlemen in the Civil Service will be required, before they can be promoted to the Third Class, to pass a second examination of the character herein-after described. The promotion from the Third Class will be deferred, in the case of gentlemen who fail to pass their second examination within six years from the date of their being attached to one of the Public Offices, to that of those who shall have passed within that period and have entered the Third Class before them.
3. The subjects of examination will be the native languages (Sinhalese and Tamil), Law, and the System of Accounts employed in the Government offices.
4. At their first examination Candidates will be examined in Sinhalese or Tamil (whichever they may prefer), in Law, and in Accounts; at their second, in Law, Accounts, and both languages; and in this seconil examination Candidates may take up the various subjects, if they so desire it, in three sections at three separate periods, section (a) consisting of Law and Accounts, section (6) consisting of the language taken up by them at their first examination, and section (c) consisting of their second language,
The subjects and scheme of both the first and second examinations will be as follows
NATIVE LANGUAGES.
In the first examination the Candidate is to write an English translation of two short Sinhalese or Tamil letters or reports from headmen, written in different running hands. He is to translate a short English judgment or other official paper into Sinhalese or Tamil; dictate off-hand the translation into Sinhalese or Tamil of an English report or other official paper to a native, who shall take it down in writing; read and trauslate an extract from a Sinhalese or Tamil newspaper and from the proceedings of a Gansabhawa case put into his hands for the first time; answer a few plain grammatical questions on declensions, conjugations, and compound words; read, construe, and parse in English any easy sentence in Sinhalese or Tamil that may be set by the examiner ; to be tested in conversation so as to satisfy the examiner as to his power of understanding natives of different classes, and of making himself understood by them, both in comnum conversation and in the usual course of official business.
The marks required for a pass in this first examipation shall be 40 per cent. in conversation and in newspaper reading respectively, and a total of 33 per cent, in all subjects.
The second examination shall be similar in its nature to the first, but more difficult in degree. The Candidate will be required to act as an interpreter between the examinér and natives perfectly ignorant of English; the interpreta- tion to be on matters connected with some ordinary civil or criminal case.
The marks required for a pass in this second examination shall be 60 per cent, in conversation and in newspaper reading respectively, and a total of 50 per cent. in all subjects.
LAW.
Candidates will be examined in the following books :—
For the First Examination.
1. Vanderlinden's Institutes, Book I., chapters 1 to 15 inclusive, and
chapter 18.
2. Pollock on Contracts.
3. Ceylon Penal Code.
4. Ceylon Criminal Procedure Code.
5. Ordinance No. 14 of 1895 (Evidence).
For the Second Examination.
1. Smith's Mercantile Law.
2. Snell's Equity Jurisprudence.
3. Voet ad Pand: Titles on Vindicatio and Interdict (Casie Chitty's
English translation).
4. Pothier on Obligations, Vol. I. (Evan's translation).
5. Local Ordinances relating to Property and Contract.
6. Civil Procedure Code and Pleadings and Ordinance relating to
Insolvency.
7. Best on the Principles of Evidence.
Candidates will be required to obtain a minimum of 33 per cent. on each subject and of 40 per cent. on the total marks in the first examination, and a minimum of 40 per cent. on each subject and of 30 per cent. on the total marks in the second examination.
ACCOUNTS.
The subject of examination will be the System of Accounts employed in the Government offices, and Candidates will be required to obtain 40 per cent. on the total marks for a pass in the first examination and 75 per cent. in the second examination.
3. The examination will be conducted on the above system of marks, and
the time allotted to each subject will be fixed by the examinern.
6. Any Cadet who is of Sinhalese, Tamil, or Eurasian parentage will be required to take up for his first examination whichever of the native language has not been spokon by, or familiar to, him as a child.
The Minute of January 10, 1880), is hereby cancelladi.