APPENDIX II.

REGULATIONS RESPECTING OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS SETTLED SINCE THE ISSUE OF THE 21ST REPORT.

APPENDIX II.

REGULATIONS SETTLED SINCE THE ISSUE OF THE 21ST REPORT
RESPECTING OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS.

REGULATIONS. SPECIAL REGULATIONS (supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April 1872, and amended by subsequent notices in the LONDON GAZETTE,*) respecting OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS for the SITUATION of ACCOUNTANT CLERK in the DEPARTMENT of the DIRECTOR of ENGINEERING and ARCHITECTURAL WORKS in the ADMIRALTY.

Accountan

Clerk,
Admiralty.

I. The limits of age for this situation are 20 and 24, and candidates must be of the prescribed age on the first day of the competitive examination.

II. Candidates will be required to show what preliminary training or technical education they have undergone to qualify themselves for a situation of this nature. Evidence on this point must be sent to the Civil Service Commissioners at least a week before the date of the examination. If it prove primâ facie satisfactory, the candidate will be admitted to examination, subject to such further inquiry as may be necessary.

III. The examination will consist of two parts, and will be in the following subjects, viz. :—

1. Handwriting.

2. Orthography.

PART I.-PRELIMINARY.

3. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions).

No candidate who fails to show satisfactory proficiency in any of the subjects specified above will be admitted to the competitive part of the examination.

PART II.-COMPETITIVE.

1. English Composition.

2. Squaring Dimensions.

3. Knowledge of Materials.

4. Theory and Principles of Construction.

5. Architectural and Engineering Drawing (so far as necessary for reading plans and understanding their details, taking out quantities or measuring work, and preparing specifications).

6. Estimating and Valuing.

7. Preparation of Builders Accounts (including abstracting and getting into bill, pricing, &c., and examination).

8. Book-keeping by Double Entry.

NOTE. Candidates must show a satisfactory acquaintance with the first seven subjects.

IV. A fee of 5s. will be required from each candidate attending the preliminary examination, and a further fee of 17. from each candidate who may be admitted to the competitive part.

V. Application for permission to attend an examination must be made at such times and in such manner as the Commissioners may appoint.

Civil Service Commission,

23rd July 1877.

REGULATIONS. SPECIAL REGULATIONS (Supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April

Assistant to Surveyors, Office of Works.

1872, and amended by subsequent Notices in the LONDON GAZETTE,*) respecting OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS for the SITUATION of ASSISTANT to SURVEYORS in the OFFICE of HER MAJESTY'S WORKS, &c.

N.B.-These Regulations are liable to alteration for future Examinations.

I. The limits of age for this situation are 20 and 30, and candidates must be of the prescribed age on the first day of the competitive examination.

II. Candidates will be required to show what preliminary training in their profession of architect and surveyor they have undergone to qualify themselves for

For General Regulations now (June 1878) in force see page 131.

a situation of this nature, and they must produce evidence on this point before they REGULATIONS. can be admitted to the examination. If this evidence should prove primâ facie satisfactory, the applicants will be allowed to compete; but further proof will, if Assistant to necessary, be required from the successful candidate.

III. The examination will be in the following subjects; viz. :—

1. Architecture and Principles of Construction.

2. Knowledge of Materials.

3. Designs and Specifications.

4. Estimating and Valuing.

5. Drainage and Water Supply.

6. Architectural Drawing,

7. Calculation of the strength of girders, roofs (iron and wood), stability

of walls, and pressure and flow of water.

8. Levelling and Chain Surveying.

9. Engineering Drawing.

10. Rudimentary Chemistry and Physics.

Candidates must pass to the satisfaction of the Commissioners in the subjects numbered 1 to 7. The three remaining subjects are optional.

IV. No candidate can be admitted to the competition who has not previously satisfied the Civil Service Commissioners that he possesses the requisite amount of proficiency in the following subjects :

1. Handwriting.

2. Orthography.

3. Arithmetic (to Vulgar and Decimal Fractions).

With this view, preliminary examinations in these subjects will be held at such times and places as the Commissioners may appoint.

V. Application for permission to attend a preliminary examination must be made in the writing of the candidate, at such times and in such manner as may be fixed by the Commissioners.

VI. A fee of 10s. will be required from every candidate attending a preliminary examination, and a further fee of 21. from every candidate who may be admitted to the competition.

Civil Service Commission, S.W.

20th August 1877.

EXTRACT FROM THE REGULATIONS RESPECTING THE ENTRY OF ENGINEER
STUDENTS IN HER MAJESTY'S DOCKYARDS.

Surveyors,
Office of
Works.

REGULATIONS.

1. Vacancies for appointments as engineer students in the dockyards are open to Engineer public competition. The dockyard at which engineer students are entered each year students, will be fixed by their Lordships. Admiralty.

2. The list of candidates for these appointments will be kept at the Admiralty in London. All applications for the forms to be filled up by persons who wish to compete must be sent to the Secretary of the Admiralty before the 1st of March in each year.

3. Candidates must not be less than 14 nor more than 16 years of age on the first day of the examination. Proof of age will be required by the production of a certificate of birth. A declaration before a magistrate, accompanied by a certificate of baptism, will be accepted in those cases only in which it is impossible to procure a certificate of birth. A certificate of baptism cannot be accepted under any other circumstances. Evidence of respectability and good character must also be produced. All candidates must be children of British subjects.

4. Candidates are to understand clearly that they will be first required to satisfy the Admiralty as regards their age, respectability, good character, and physical fitness, before they can be considered eligible for entry into the dockyard, and if these conditions are satisfactory, they will then be examined by the Civil Service Commissioners in educational subjects.

5. Candidates in or near London will be medically examined by the Medical Director-General of the Navy at the Admiralty. Those residing near one of Her Majesty's dockyards, or one of the first reserve ships, or drill ships of the Royal Naval Reserve, will be examined by the medical officers attached thereto. Special arrangements will be made, if necessary, on application, with reference to candidates from more distant localities. The medical examination will be conducted in all respects in strict accordance with the instructions for the examination of persons for admission into the naval service. All candidates must produce certificates to the satisfaction of the examining medical officers that they have been re-vaccinated, or they must be re-vaccinated before they can be considered eligible for entry into the dockyard.

REGULATIONS.

Engineer

students,

Admiralty.

6. The examination will commence on the first Tuesday in May in each year, and will be held by the Civil Service Commissioners in London, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Devonport, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dublin, Belfast, and Cork.

7. The following will be the subjects of examination, and the maximum number of marks for each subject :

Algebra (up to and including Quadratic Equations)

300

- 1,500

Geometry (the subjects of Books I. to IV. and Book VI. of
Euclid's Elements, and the definitions of Book V.)

Total

Candidates will also be tested as to their ability to read aloud with clearness, distinctness, and accuracy, and without hesitation. Stammering, or any imperfection of utterance, will be regarded as a disqualification.

8. Candidates who fail to pass in the first four subjects (those marked with an asterisk), or in reading aloud, will be disqualified, and their other papers I will not be examined. The candidates who obtain not less than 750 marks in the aggregate, will be classed in one general list in order of merit, according to the number of marks gained, and will be eligible for appointment as engineer students in one of the dockyards, according to the number of appointments which it may be decided to make that year.

9. The candidates who obtain appointments will be entered as engineer students before the 1st July in each year, and must join with their parents or guardians in a bond for 300l. to enter, if required, into Her Majesty's Naval Service as assistant engineers, if at the expiration of their training they should obtain certificates of good conduct and efficiency for entry in that capacity. These bonds, and the indentures of apprenticeship, must be completed in all respects before the students join the dockyard.

10. The parents or guardians of all engineer students entered in future will be required to pay the sum of 251. a year for each student during the first three years of his training.

11. The first payment of 251. is to be made before the student is entered in the yard, and the second and third payments of 251. each are to be made on or before the 30th day of June in each of the two succeeding years. The payments are to be made to the cashier of the yard to which the student is appointed. In case of failure of payment the student will be discharged.

12. Board and lodging will be provided for engineer students, and they will be required to reside in one of the dockyards or in a vessel adjacent thereto.

13. The weekly pay of engineer students during their training will be as follows, provided they are well reported on by the officers :

14. Three weeks leave (18 working days) on full pay will be granted each year to all engineer students whose conduct and progress have been satisfactory. This leave is to be taken during the school vacations at Midsummer and Christmas.

15. Engineer students will be under the supervision of the Captain of the Steam Reserve and a staff of competent officers, and subject to such rules and regulations as their Lordships may deem necessary.

16. Special regulations will be made for engineer students in the dockyards, so as to make a distinction between them and the workmen.

17. Engineer students will remain for six years at one of the dockyards for prac- REGULATIONS. tical training in the workshops, and to receive instruction in iron shipbuilding. While the engineer students are being instructed in iron shipbuilding they are to be Engineer under the direction of the chief constructor. They will attend the dockyard schools students, for such periods, and to pursue such studies as may from time to time be determined Admiralty. on; they will also pass a portion of their time in the drawing office. Means will be afforded them of acquiring the groundwork of the knowledge required by a naval engineer respecting the working of marine engines and boilers, including those repairs which can be carried out afloat, the practical use of the various instruments used in the engine-room, including the indicator, and of becoming generally acquainted with the duties of a naval engineer.

18. Engineer students will be examined once a year under the direction of the President of the Royal Naval College. They will be examined by the engineer officers of the Admiralty at the end of the fourth, fifth, and sixth years of their service as to their practical acquirements and knowledge of steam machinery. Two prizes will be given annually at each dockyard to the engineer students most highly reported on as regards their skill as workmen. Practical engineering will be considered an essential subject at examinations, and in the lists showing the results of examinations the numbers obtained in practical subjects will be shown distinct from those obtained in educational subjects. No engineer student will be granted a qualifying certificate for entry at the Royal Naval College unless he obtains at least 50 per cent. of the total number of marks for practical engineering on his final examination, and also displays a competent knowledge of the subjects taught in the dockyard schools.

19. The examination of the sixth year students is to be held in time for the necessary certificates to be forwarded to the Admiralty on or before the 23rd June in each year, and it will include tests of their skill as workmen. Those found qualified will, on the completion of their term of service at the dockyards, proceed to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich as acting assistant engineers on probation on the 1st October succeeding the examination, where they will pass through a course of higher instruction.

20. Those engineer students who fail to pass the examination at the end of their six years' service will be allowed to remain one year longer at the dockyards, and will then be re-examined, when, if they are unable to pass, they will cease to be eligible for the rank of naval engineer. The pay of a student during such year of probation will be the same as during the sixth year.

21. Engineer students will not be entered as acting assistant engineers until they have been pronounced fit for Her Majesty's naval service by the medical officers, and have learned to swim.

22. Acting assistant engineers will be provided with quarters while at Greenwich. During their first session they will be paid 6s. a day and 1s. 6d. a day towards the mess expenses. Those selected for further study will receive their full pay and 18. 6d. a day towards the mess.

23. The period of study at Greenwich will be one session extending from the 1st October to the 30th June following. All will be examined under the direction of the President of the Royal Naval College on the completion of their course at Greenwich, and will receive certificates according to their merit, in three classes. Those who obtain first class certificates will receive commissions dated the same day as their acting appointments. Those who obtain second class certificates will receive commissions dated six months after the date of their acting appointments, and those who obtain third class certificates will receive commissions dated the day after their discharge from the Royal Naval College. The additional time given for first class certificates and second class certificates will reckon in all respects as time served as assistant engineer.

24. Two assistant engineers will be selected annually from those who take the highest place at the examination on the completion of their course at Greenwich, to pass through a further course of scientific instruction if they desire it. These two will be allowed to remain two more sessions at Greenwich, on the completion of which they will be sent to sea as assistant engineers, and after one year's service at sea they will be considered eligible to fill positions in the dockyards and at the Admiralty. 25. Those passing the second and third sessions at Greenwich will be attached during the vacations between the 30th June and 1st October, to the dockyards or steam reserves, where they will be employed sketching machinery, attending trials of new and repaired engines, and gaining such professional information as will be most useful to them for the purposes of engine design.

26. No assistant engineer who has passed three sessions at Greenwich will be allowed to leave Her Majesty's Service within seven years of the completion of his term at Greenwich, unless he shall pay the sum of 500l. to defray the charges of his education. Such resignation to be subject in each case to their Lordships' approval.