Candidates of 1877. General instructions. III. HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA. The following books may be studied with advantage :— Marshman's History of India. Mill's History of British India, edited and continued by Professor Wilson. M'Culloch's edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, last edition (1863). J. S. Mill's Principles of Political Economy. Ricardo's Political Economy. Northcote's Twenty Years of Financial Policy. Göschen on Foreign Exchanges. Candidates are requested to acknowledge at once all communications from this office, and to inform the Secretary of any change in their address. Civil Service Commission, 1877. Candidates of SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES SELECTED IN 1877, WITH REGARD TO THEIR FIRST PERIODICAL EXAMINATION, COMMENCING ON THE 1ST OF JANUARY 1878. First periodical examination. Special instructions. Candidates will be expected to have studied the grammar of the vernacular languages in which they are to be examined, to be able to translate portions of some simple text-book in each language, and to translate into it a few simple sentences of English. Passages translated from the text-book will also be set for re-translation. Care should be taken to acquire from the first, as far as possible, a correct pronunciation of the native sounds. In all Examinations in the Vernacular Languages special value will be attached to correct and idiomatic writing of the language. Candidates are recommended to practise as much as possible re-translating into the original languages passages translated from the text-books. In the prescribed languages the books on which candidates will be examined are :— Hindustani.-Platts' or Williams' Grammar. Forbes' Totá Kahání (first 82 pages). Telugu.-Brown's or Arden's Grammar. N.B.-Where pages, &c. are specified, the numbers are to be taken inclusively. Candidates who take the under-mentioned languages should read the Candidates of following works:First periodical 1877. Sanskrit.—The Grammar; more especially the rules of Sandhi, the examination. regular declensions of the nouns, the pronouns, and the Special common verbs, as far as the four conjugational tenses, instructions. the reduplicated perfect, and the two futures, in the Parasmaipada and Atmanepada. The Story of Nala, Books 1-10. Arabic. The Grammar. (Wright, Palmer, or Forbes.) Alif Laila (Macnaghten's edition), pp. 101-121. Persian. The Grammar. (Lee's Edition of Sir W. Jones, Forbes, or Mirza Ibrahim.) Selections. (Forbes.) Gulistan, [Platt's], cap. i., pp. 13-33. Hindi.-Ballantyne's Grammar. Hindi Reader, pp. 1-12. Robinson Crusoe, pp. 7–70. Bengali.-Wenger's edition of Yates' Grammar. Charitábalí, pp. 7-85. Tamil.-Elements of the Grammar as given in Pope's Tamil Hand- Pope's Tamil Prose Reading Book (first 45 Stories of Marathi. Stevenson's Grammar (omitting all the small print from Bellairs' Grammar, pp. 5-31. Esop's Fables (first 65 fables in Candy's edition). II.-LAW. 1. General Jurisprudence.-The books or portions of books to be studied are: Blackstone's Commentaries (Kerr's edition), from the beginning of section ii. of the Introduction to the end of chapter viii., Book I.; or, if Kerr's edition cannot be procured, the following portions of Stephen's Commentaries :-Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the Introduction, Book I., and the first seven chapters of the First Part of Book IV. Austin's Lectures, I., V., and VI. 2. Notes of Cases and Law of Evidence.-Not fewer than nine reports must be supplied by each candidate, drawn up as required by the "General Instructions," and consisting exclusively of cases decided by a single judge or magistrate without the aid of a jury. Three of these reports must relate to civil cases decided by the judge of a county court (or, in Scotland, of a sheriff's court) where both parties are represented by counsel or attorney. Five must relate to proceedings in the * Five of these (including at least one report of a county court case, and at least one of a police court case) must be sent in before July 31st. The remainder (including the Report of the business of a day in a police court) must be sent in before November 15th. † Candidates will be allowed to inspect, at the office of the Civil Service Commission, specimens of reports drawn up in the manner desired. Candidates of police courts of London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, presided over by stipendiary magistrates, embracing 1877. First periodical examination. Special instructions. (a.) Cases in which the magistrate exercises final jurisdiction. One must consist of a separate report of the whole of the business, 3. Indian Law:- The Penal Code. The Code of Criminal Procedure. III. HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA. Elphinstone, to the end of Book V. The Map of India. Geography of India (Allen's series or Duncan's). IV. POLITICAL ECONOMY. as M'Culloch's edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, 1863. Introductory Discourse, and Books I. and II. (with the Supplemental Notes and Dissertations far as they relate to those books), omitting the Digression concerning variations in the value of Silver, Book I., cap. xi., pt. 3, and the account of the Scotch Banking System in the latter portion of cap. ii., Book II. After the examination prizes will be given as follows: No prize will be given except for a respectable degree of proficiency; and no candidate will receive a prize who does not exhibit satisfactory proficiency in each of the prescribed subjects. 2.-EXAMINATION PAPERS SET AT THE OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION OF 1877, FOR OPEN COMPETITION, 1877. REGULATIONS. N.B.-The Regulations are liable to be altered in future years. 1. On March 20th, 1877, and following days, an examination of Candidates will Regulations be held in London. At this examination not fewer than Candidates will be for 1877. selected, if so many shall be found duly qualified. Of these, will be selected from the Presidency of Bengal, [ for the Upper Provinces, and for the Lower Provinces,] for that of Madras, and for that of Bombay.*—Notice will hereafter be given of the days and place of examination. 2. Any person desirous of competing at this examination, must produce to the Civil Service Commissioners, before the 1st of February 1877, evidence showing :(a.) That he is a natural-born subject of Her Majesty. (b.) That his age, on the 1st March 1877, will be above 17 years and under 21 years. [N.B.-In the case of Natives of India this must be certified by the Government of India, or of the Presidency or Province in which the Candidate may have resided.] (c.) That he has no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity unfitting him, or likely to unfit him, for the Civil Service of India.† (d.) That he is of good moral character; he must also pay such fee as the Secretary of State for India may prescribe.‡ 3. Should the evidence upon the above points be primâ facie satisfactory to the Civil Service Commissioners, the Candidate will, upon payment of the prescribed fee, be admitted to the examination. The Commissioners may, however, in their discretion, at any time prior to the grant of the certificate of qualification herein-after referred to, institute such further inquiries as they may deem necessary; and if the result of such inquiries, in the case of any candidate, should be unsatisfactory to them in any of the above respects, he will be ineligible for admission to the Civil Service of India, and if already selected, will be removed from the position of a probationer. 4. The examination will take place only in the following branches of knowledge: English Composition History of England-including that of the Laws and Constitution Language, Literature, and History of Greece Rome Marks. 500 500 500 750 750 Mathematics (pure and mixed) - 1,250 Natural Science: that is (1) Chemistry, including Heat; (2) - 1,000 The total (1,000) marks may be obtained by adequate Moral Sciences; that is, Logic, Mental and Moral Philosophy Candidates are at liberty to name, before February 1st, 1877, any or all of these branches of knowledge. No subjects are obligatory. * The number of appointments to be made, and the number in each Presidency, &c., will be announced hereafter. † Evidence of health and character must bear date not earlier than the 1st January 1877. The fee for this examination will be 57., payable by means of a special stamp, according to instructions which will be communicated to candidates. ΟΡΕΝ 5. The merit of the persons examined will be estimated by marks; and the numCOMPETITION. ber set opposite to cach branch in the preceding regulation denotes the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it. 1877. 6. No candidate will be allowed any marks in respect of any subject of examiRegulations for nation, unless he shall be considered to possess a competent knowledge of that 1877. subject.* 7. The examination will be conducted by means of printed questions and written answers, and by vivâ voce examination, as may be deemed necessary. 8. 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 candidates who shall have obtained a greater aggregate number of marks than any of the remaining candidates will be set forth in order of merit, and such candidates shall be deemed to be selected candidates for the Civil Service of India, provided they appear to be in other respects duly qualified. Should any of the selected candidates become disqualified, the Secretary of State for India will determine whether the vacancy thus created shall be filled up or not. In the former case, the candidate next in order of merit and in other respects duly qualified, shall be deemed to be a selected candidate. A selected candidate declining to accept the appointment which may be offered to him will be disqualified for any subsequent competition. 9. Selected candidates before proceeding to India, will be on probation for two years, during which time they will be examined periodically, with a view of testing their progress in the following subjects :-† In these examinations, as in the open competition, the merit of the candidates examined will be estimated by marks, and the number set opposite to each subject denotes the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it at any one examination. The examination will be conducted by means of printed questions and written answers, and by vivâ voce examination, as may be deemed necessary. The last of these examinations will be held at the close of the second year of probation, and will be called the "Final Examination," at which it will be decided whether a selected candidate is qualified for the Civil Service of India. 10. Any candidate who, at any of the periodical examinations, shall appear to have wilfully neglected his studies, or to be physically incapacitated for pursuing the prescribed course of training, will be liable to have his name removed from the list of selected candidates. 11. The selected candidates who, at the final examination, shall be found to have a competent knowledge of the subjects specified in Regulation 9, and who shall have satisfied the Civil Service Commissioners of their eligibility in respect of age, health, and character, shall be certified by the said Commissioners to be entitled to be appointed to the Civil Service of India, provided they shall comply with the regulations in force, at the time, for that Service. 12. Applications from persons desirous to be admitted as candidates are to be addressed to the Secretary to the Civil Service Commissioners, London, S.W., from whom the proper form for the purpose may be obtained. 4th August 1876. "Nothing can be further from our wish than to hold out premiums for knowledge "of wide surface and of small depth. We are of opinion that a candidate ought to "be allowed no credit at all for taking up a subject in which he is a mere smatterer."Report of Committee of 1854. A deduction of marks will be made under each subject, including Mathematics. † Full instructions as to the course of study to be pursued will be issued to the successful candidates as soon as possible after the result of the open competition is declared. Including, besides the languages prescribed for the several Presidencies, such other languages as may, with the approval of the Commissioners, be taken up as subjects of examination. |