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Printed for the use of the Colonial Office, February 1908.

EASTERN

No. 68.

Eighth Edition.

(45188)

This Meins is revied

from time to time.

CEYLON CADETSHIPS.

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WITH the view of supplying the Civil Service in Ceylon, Cadetships have been established, the holders of which are required to devote themselves for a certain time after their arrival in the Colony to learning the Native Languages, viz., Sinhalese and Tamil.

1. The Cadets, who must be natural born British subjects of European.or Asiatic descent, are selected by open competitive examination held by the Civil Service Commissioners, to whom all enquiries on the subject should be addressed.

The examination for these appointments will, as a rule, be held in the month of August in those years in which vacancies have occurred, simultaneously with the examination for the Civil Service of India. Candidates must be between the ages of † 22 and 24 on the first day of August in the year in which the examination is held.

8. The selected Candidates will be expected to leave for the Colony about a month after the results of the examination are announced.

3. The salary of a cadet commences at the rate of £300 a year without quarters. Half salary is allowed from the date of embarkation, and full salary from that of arrival in the Colony. A free passage to the Colony is provided for the Cadet, subject to an undertaking to secure that--in case of his dismissal, or in case he shall within three years from the date of his arrival in Ceylon, either quit the Colony without leave or relinquish his appointment (except on account of ill health)-he shall, if required by the Governor, repay to the Colony the cost of his passage out.

The subjoined Minute contains the rules at present in force respecting the employment of Cadets. They are, of course, alterable from time to time by the Government.

4. In order po facilitate the study of the Native Languages, all Cadets will, from the date of their being placed on the permanent staff, receive a pundit allowance of Rs. 30 a month during twenty-one months. Such allowance will be drawn by the Cadet only on his certificate that the teacher has been actually and bond, fide employed. During these twenty-one months of study, Cadets

*Ą separak paper is jasued by the Civil Servios Cummnission containing information in regard to the Excenination.

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↑ In reckoning uge for competition, members of the Militia, the Imperial Yeomanry, the Honourable Artillery Company, or the Fohindern (whether commissioned or "communia@soned) may deduct from their gohul age any time spent on actunt military service in ressaction with the war in South Afrion, much time being reckoned by the insenber ‹ƒ days for which they resival Army Pay.

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