1 waistcoat cap, peak half turn down, with usual device of the civil branch. 1 working uniform suit of blue serge. 8 buttons placed by 4 to be worn on the breast of the tunic, and a single purple velvet stripe round the sleeve of the tunic. Patterns of the several articles of uniform are kept and can be seen at the offices of the Naval Commanders-in-Chief at Sheerness, Portsmouth, and Devonport. 1 sea chest complete, with name in full painted on top. 28. The above are to be provided at the expense of the engineer students, their parents or guardians, as well as all other articles of clothing and necessaries. 29. Copies of the authorised text books necessary for use in the dockyard schools will be supplied gratuitously to the engineer students, but all losses will have to be made good. The books will become the property of the engineer students when they leave school, free of charge. Medical Examinations. 30. With a view to prevent parents and guardians from incurring the inconvenience and expense of preparing candidates for entry as engineer students in Her Majesty's Dockyards who may be physically unfit for Her Majesty's service, it is suggested that the candidates be submitted to examination by the medical adviser of the family, or any other qualified medical practitioner, to whom the following points may be submitted as those upon which they will, previous to their educational examination, be physically examined by naval medical officers. 31. It is to be understood that this private examination is merely suggested as a guide to parents and guardians, and to lessen the chances of disappointment, and that it is by no means intended to take the place of, or to influence in any way, the regular official physical examination. 32. A weak constitution, arising from imperfect development or weakness of the physical powers of the body, either hereditary or from chronic disease, wounds, or injuries. 33. Chronic eruptions on the skin or scalp. 34. Malformation of the head, with a dry, harsh, divergent state of the hair of the scalp, fracture or depression of the bones of the skull, disordered intellect, imbecility, epilepsy, paralysis, or impediment of speech. 35. Blindness or defective vision, as tested by Snellen's test types, in one or both eyes, fistula lachrymalis, and ptosis. 36. Impaired hearing, or discharge from one or both ears, disease or thickening of the lining membrane of the external ear. 37. Disease of the bones of the nose or of its cartilages, and polypus. 38. Disease of the throat, palate, or tonsils; unsound teeth, offensive breath from constitutional causes, unhealthy gums, scrofulous diseases of the glands of the throat or neck, external cicatrices from scrofulous sores. 39. Functional or organic disease of the heart or blood vessels, deformity or contraction of the chest, flattening of the sub-clavicular regions, phthisis, hæmoptysis, bronchitis, dyspnoea, aphonia, chronic cough, or other symptoms of tubercular exudation into the pulmonary tissues. 40. Swelling or distension of the abdomen, undue obesity, disease or enlargement of the liver, spleen, or kidneys. Rupture, weakness or distension of the abdominal rings; vesical weakness, or incontinence. 41. The existence of any congenital defect, or of varicocele. 42. Any disease of or pertaining to the alimentary canal. 43. Paralysis, weakness, impaired motion, or contraction of the upper or lower extremities, from whatever cause; aneurism, a varicose state of the veins, especially of the leg. Bunions, distortion, malformation of the feet, or malposition of the fingers or toes. 44. Distortion of the spine, of the bones of the chest, or pelvis, from injury or REGULATIONS. constitutional defect. N.B.-The above regulations will be generally followed, but my Lords will modify Engineer them from time to time as may be considered desirable. 21st January 1878. students, Admiralty. EXTRACT from the REGULATIONS respecting the ENTRY of APPRENTICES in HER REGULATIONS. MAJESTY'S DOCKYARDS. Dockyard 1. Vacancies for appointments as apprentices in Her Majesty's dockyards at Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth, Devonport, and Pembroke are open to public apprentices, Admiralty. competition. 2. The lists of candidates for these situations are kept at the Admiralty in London, and by the superintendents of the dockyards named in paragraph 1, to whom all applications must be sent in before the 1st of March in each year. 3. The candidates must not be less than 14 nor more than 15 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. The superintendent of the dockyard is to take particular care that no boy's name is forwarded to the Admiralty for examination unless his age is within the prescribed limits. 4. Candidates will be first required to satisfy the superintendents of the dockyards as regards their age, respectability, good character, and physical fitness before they can be considered eligible for entry into the dockyard. Candidates in or near London, and who elect to be examined in London, will be required to satisfy the Admiralty on the points named above. If these conditions are satisfactory, they will then be examined by the Civil Service Commissioners in educational subjects. All candidates must be children of British subjects. 5. Candidates will not be admitted for examination at the Dockyards until they have been pronounced fit for Her Majesty's service by the medical officers of the yard. Candidates in or near London may be examined by the Medical DirectorGeneral of the Navy at the Admiralty. The medical examination will be conducted in all respects in strict accordance with the instructions for examination of persons for admission into the naval service. Candidates should possess the following physical qualifications at the minimum age : men. Height Girth of chest 4 ft. 8 in. but a deficiency in these requisites will not exclude candidates who may be pronounced by the medical officers to be generally calculated to make efficient workAll such cases, however, are to be specially noted in the lists sent to the Admiralty, and the grounds upon which such candidates have been admitted are to be fully stated. All candidates must produce certificates to the satisfaction of the examining medical officers that they have been re-vaccinated, or they must be revaccinated before they can be considered eligible for entry into the dockyard. 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 as well as at the several dockyards. 7. The following will be the subjects of examination, and the maximum number of marks for each subject: 8. Candidates who fail to pass in the first three subjects will be disqualified, and their other papers will not be examined. The candidates who display a competent knowledge of all the subjects named in paragraph 7 will be eligible for appointment in the various trades, according to their position on the examination lists at the REGULATIONS. Several dockyards, and to the number of appointments which it may be decided to make that year. Dockyard apprentices, Admiralty. REGULATIONS. Clerk in Solicitor's Office, Post Office. 9. Apprentices will be bound by indentures to serve for seven years, and no candidate will be entered unless some relative or friend is able and willing to undertake the duty of the second party to the indenture as to the support, &c., of the apprentice during his apprenticeship. Board wages will only be allowed in the case of boys whose fathers have died or been killed in service under the Admiralty, and when it can be proved the family are in distressed circumstances, or in other very special cases. 10. On the expiration of their period of service apprentices will receive a certificate of their character and conduct, the progress they have made in their trade, and in the knowledge of the subjects prescribed for dockyard apprentices. 11. The pay of apprentices serving in the dockyards is as follows: First year - Fourth year Seventh year d. S. 3 O a week, 12. A limited number of apprentices who have passed five years at the dockyard will be selected annually by competitive examination for study at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. They will remain there three sessions, passing the vacation each year between the 30th June and the 1st October at one of the dockyards. 13. Those selected for study at Greenwich must join with their parents or guardians in a bond for the sum of 250l. to serve under the Admiralty for seven years if required after the completion of their apprenticeship. 14. While at Greenwich, dockyard apprentices will be lodged, and will receive 18. 6d. a day towards the mess. They will mess with the acting 2nd class assistant engineers. They will receive pay as follows: — Those in their first year at Greenwich s. d. When at their own dockyards during the vacation they will receive their pay as above, but not the messing allowance. When at other dockyards the messing allowance will be granted. 15. If found well qualified at the completion of their course at Greenwich they may be sent to sea, in one of Her Majesty's ships, for one year, if the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty think it desirable, and will then be appointed supernumerary draughtsmen, and employed temporarily as assistants to the foremen of the dockyards, or in any other post for which they may be considered fit. In cases where their Lordships do not consider it desirable to send them to sea, they will be at once appointed to situations as above at the several dockyards. N.B.-The above regulations will be generally followed, but my Lords will modify them from time to time as may be considered desirable. 21st January 1878. SPECIAL REGULATIONS (supplementary to the General Regulations issued 8th April N.B.-These Regulations apply to the present Examination only. I. No candidate will be eligible whose age on the first day of the examination is less than 20 or more than 30. II. No candidate will be eligible to compete who has not been, or is not qualified to be, admitted to practise as a solicitor in Ireland; and no candidate will be eligible for appointment until he has actually been so admitted. III. The examination will be in the following subjects, viz. : 5. Criminal Law, and Proceedings before Justices of the Peace in Ireland. REGULATIONS. 6. Law of Evidence. 7. Common Law Procedure and Practice. 8. Elements of Conveyancing. 9. Geography. 10. English History. 11. Latin. 12. French or German. Optional Subjects. 13. Mercantile Book-keeping. 14. Equity and Practice of the Courts. 15. Bankruptcy and Practice of the Courts. IV. A fee of 2/. will be required from each candidate attending the examination. 4th March 1878. Clerk in Solicitor's Office, Post Office. REGULATIONS. REGULATIONS respecting TEMPORARY COPYISTS in PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS. Revised Regulations may at any time be issued, which will apply to every copyist who may accept or renew an engagement after their publication in the London Temporary Gazette. Copyists. 1. A register of copyists for temporary employment in Public Departments will be kept by the Civil Service Commissioners. 2. This register will contain the names- Men clerks can only be registered as men copyists and boy clerks as The appointment to permanent situations of candidates thus provisionally placed on the register of copyists will, in the case of clerks of the lower division, continue to take effect according to clause 9 of the Order in Council of 12th February 1876. While they remain upon the register they will be subject to whatever regulations apply to other registered copyists. (b.) Of candidates who, not having competed for clerkships of the lower division, or for situations of assistants of excise, or not placed on the lists of successful competitors, have satisfied the Civil Service Commissioners that they are of good health and character, and that they are duly qualified under the following regulations (3 and 4). 3. The limits of age in the case of candidates not belonging to class (a) are :For men copyists-over 18. For boy copyists-14 to 18. 4. The subjects of examination for candidates in class 2 (b) are: 5. Arithmetic. Boy Copyists: 1. Handwriting. 2. Orthography. 3. Elementary arithmetic. OPTIONAL. 5. Examinations, for the purpose of testing the qualifications of candidates in the above-mentioned subjects, will be held by the Civil Service Commissioners from time to time as may be necessary, and a certain number, regulated by the probable demand from the Public Departments, of those who display the requisite amount of proficiency, will be placed upon the register kept by the Commissioners. 6. The fee payable by persons attending these examinations will be 5s. for men and 2s. 6d. for boys. •Candidates should fully understand that only those who show themselves proficient in the obligatory subjects can be placed upon the register, and that those who do not pass in arithmetic will be excluded from employment where copyists are required for arithmetical work. 7. Registered copyists will be summoned for employment in any of the public departments as they are wanted. When not wanted, they will have no claim to employment. Refusing to serve when called upon, except for reasons satisfactory to the Civil Service Commissioners, they will be removed from the register. The order in which they may be employed, the Departments to which they may be assigned, and their retention generally on the register, will be determined by the Civil Service Commissioners; but they will be subject to the orders of the Departments in which they are serving during the time of their actual employment, and will be liable to dismissal from them by the authorities thereof, without notice, for inefficiency or misconduct. 8. Copyists may be engaged by the hour, day, or week, or by the piece. The engagement of all copyists, not engaged for a shorter period, will be by the week. Copyists engaged for a day or upwards will ordinarily be employed for the number of hours constituting the official day in the Department to which they are attached, but if they are required to give their services after official hours, they must do so, and they will be paid at the same rate, whether by the hour or by the piece, as in the official hours. A copyist refusing to work after official hours on these terms without an excuse satisfactory to the authorities of the Department will be liable to dismissal by them without notice. 9. Men copyists will be paid either at the rate of 10d. per hour, or at the rate of 1d. for every 100 words well and correctly copied, as the authorities of the Department for which they are required may determine. Other rates for special kinds of work may be determined by the Civil Service Commissioners, with the previous approval of the Commissioners of the Treasury; but copyists, as a rule, are not meant to be employed upon any work except mere copying, or routine work under the direct supervision of established officers. 10. No service, however much it may happen to be prolonged, will confer any claim to superannuation or compensation allowance. 11. The pay of boy copyists will commence at the rate of 4d. per hour; an addition of d. per hour may be allowed by the Civil Service Commissioners at the end of each year of approved service. Should any boy copyists be engaged by the piece they will be paid at such rates as may be fixed by the Civil Service Commissioners, with the approval of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. Boy copyists will not be retained, as such, after they shall have reached the age of 19. 12. If a public holiday, on which the office is closed, fall within the period of a copyist's engagement, he may be paid in respect of it as for a working day. Copyists may, with the consent of the Department in which they are serving, or, if not at the time serving, with the consent of the Civil Service Commissioners, be allowed holidays, with pay, at the rate for the official day, in the proportion of one day for every 24 full days of actual and approved service previously rendered by them as registered copyists. No copyist shall be allowed to take more than 12 days' leave under these conditions, between the 1st day of January and the 31st day of December, both days inclusive, in any one year. In calculating the leave to be allowed in any given year, no service shall be counted before the 1st day of January of the preceding year. 13. Copyists who may fall ill while serving in any Department, and whose illness may be attested by medical certificate to the satisfaction of the authorities of such Department, may be allowed sick-leave, receiving three-fourths of the rate of pay for the official day; provided such copyists have been borne on the register one year or upwards, and provided that no copyist shall be paid for holidays and sick-leave, taken together, for more than 28 days within any one year, exclusive of public holidays. 14. Except in conformity with regulations 12 and 13, copyists will only receive pay for the hours, or parts of hours, during which they actually attend. 15. No person who has been trained, either wholly or partially, at the public expense, for the occupation of a teacher in schools in connexion with the Committee of Council for Education, or the Board of National Education, Ireland, is eligible for employment as a copyist, until the consent of those Departments, given in conformity with rules sanctioned by the Lords of the Treasury, has been notified to the Civil Service Commissioners. Persons employed in any branch of the public service, whether civil, naval, or military, will not be eligible, unless they shall have produced to the Civil Service Commissioners at or before the time of examination the written consent of the authorities under whom they may be serving. 16. Copyists are not intended to travel during an engagement, nor will they, as a rule, be required to accept engagements at a distance from their residence; but any copyist who may be ordered to travel will be allowed such reasonable and customary expenses as the Lords of the Treasury may in each case approve. 21st January 1878. |