9. From these lists the Civil Service Commissioners, on the application of departments having vacancies, may supply, on probation, the requisite clerks, whether for permanent or temporary duty. Selections shall, as a general rule, be made by the Civil Service Commissioners according to the order of the names on the lists; but the Civil Service Commissioners may select any clerk who, in his examination, has shown special qualifications for any particular subject, among those included in "Regulation II.," if special application for such a clerk be made by any depart

ment.

10. No clerk shall remain more than one year in any department unless at the end of that time the head of the department shall signify in writing to the Civil Service Commissioners that the clerk is accepted by the department. If he is not accepted, the department shall report to the said Commissioners the reasons for not accepting him; and such Commissioners shall thereon supply another clerk in his room, and shall decide whether the name of the rejected clerk shall be struck off the list, as unfit for the service generally, or whether he shall be allowed a trial in another department.

11. Boy clerks shall not be retained as such in any department after completing their 19th year; but they may, after two years (or, if admitted after 17 years of age, one year) of good service, to be certified in writing by the head of their department to the Civil Service Commissioners, compete under "Regulation II.," among themselves, for so many men clerkships of the lower division as shall not exceed one-fourth of the number of competitors.

The number of men clerkships reserved for such limited competitions shall be reckoned as part of the total number to be published, pursuant to Clause 6 of this Order.

Separate lists shall be made out of the competitors successful in the limited competitions, and selections for appointments to men clerkships shall (subject to Clause 9 of this Order) be made alternately from these lists and from the lists of competitors successful in the open competitions (Clause 5).

12. Appointments may be made exceptionally to the lower division of clerks from the body of writers serving before 4th June 1870, if thoroughly qualified, and from those subsequently registered by the Civil Service Commissioners; provided that the age of these latter did not exceed 30 years at the time of their being placed on the register; that at the date of this present Order in Council, they have served as registered writers for a period of not less than three years; that they produce certificates from the head of the department in which they are serving that it is desirable, in the interest of the public service, to retain and employ them in that same Department; and that they prove their fitness by a supplementary examination.

13. The salaries of men clerks in the lower division shall commence at 801., and shall rise by triennial increments of 15. to 2001. Provided that in any office in which a regular attendance

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of seven hours a day is required, the commencing salary may 907, and the maximum salary may be 2501

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14. The triennial increments of salary to men clerks shall not be allowed in full without a certificate from the immediate superior of each clerk, countersigned by the head of the department, or by such officer as he may designate for the purpose, to the effect that the clerk's conduct has been in all respects satisfactory. In cases of demerit, a part, or the whole of the increment may be withheld or deferred, according to circumstances.

15. The salaries of boy clerks shall begin at 14s. per week, and shall rise by 1s. per week per annum as long as they are employed.

16. Extra pay, not exceeding 1007. per annum, may be attached to certain situations open to clerks of the lower division whose duties involve the superintendence of other clerks, or are otherwise of a more distinctly responsible character than such as the generality of their colleagues have to perform. The number of such situations in each department, and the amount of extra pay, subject to the maximum of 100l., to be assigned to each such situation, shall be fixed by the head of the department, with the consent of the Commissioners of the Treasury.

17. Situations carrying extra pay shall be conferred strictly according to positive merit, and not according to seniority.

18. Promotion from the lower to the higher division of the Service shall not be made without a special certificate from the Civil Service Commissioners, to be granted exceptionally, after not less than ten years service, upon a special recommendation from the head of the department, and with the assent of the Treasury; and every such promotion, including such recommendation, certificate, and assent, shall be published in the London Gazette, and shall take effect only from and after the date of such publication.

19. Below the lower division of ordinary clerks (including boy clerks) men and boy copyists may be employed for mere copying, and for routine work under direct supervision, on the same conditions of service as those at present in force for Civil Service writers (men and boys). Whenever it is possible, they shall be paid by piece-work, at rates to be fixed by the Civil Service Commissioners, with the consent of the head of the department, and of the Commissioners of the Treasury.

20. All appointments, promotions, and transfers from one office to another shall be notified to the Civil Service Commissioners as they are made, and shall by them be published together in the number of the London Gazette first issued in each month.

C. L. PEEL.

At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day of June 1876.

PRESENT:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS Her Majesty's Order in Council, dated 12th February 1876, intituled "Regulations for the Civil Service," is confined to such parts of Her Majesty's Civil Service as are comprised in the first and second (excluding the third) of the Reports made in the years 1874-75 by the Right Honourable Lyon Playfair and others appointed by the Commissioners of the Treasury to be a commission for inquiring into various questions connected with the organisation of Civil Departments of the State.

And whereas it is expedient that discretion should be given to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs, with the previous consent of the Commissioners of the Treasury, to apply the said Order in Council, so far as they may see fit, to such parts of the Customs Service as are comprised in the said Third Report.

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the said Commissioners of Customs may, so far as they see fit, and with the previous consent of the Commissioners of the Treasury, apply the said Order in Council to the Customs Service accordingly.

C. L. PEEL.

ORDER IN COUNCIL. 27 June 1876.

At the Court at Windsor, the 9th day of December 1876.

PRESENT:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS Her Majesty's Order in Council, dated 12th February 1876, intituled "Regulations for the Civil Service," is confined to such parts of Her Majesty's Civil Service as are comprised in the first and second (excluding the third) of the Reports made in the years 1874-75 by the Right Honourable Lyon Playfair and others appointed by the Commissioners of the Treasury to be a commission for inquiring into various questions connected with the organisation of Civil Departments of the State.

And whereas it is expedient that discretion should be given to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Inland Revenue, with the previous consent of the Commissioners of the Treasury, to apply the said Order in Council, so far as they may see fit, to such parts of the Inland Revenue Service as are comprised in the said Third Report.

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that

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the said Commissioners of Inland Revenue may, so far as they see fit, and with the previous consent of the Commissioners of the Treasury, apply the said Order in Council to the Inland Revenue Service accordingly.

C. L. PEEL

The following Treasury Minutes, &c. referring to the foregoing Orders in Council have been issued:

Treasury, 27th June 1872. My Lords advert to an order of Her Majesty in Council, dated 19th 27 June 1872. August 1871, whereby it was ordered, among other things,

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1. That no temporary writer should be attached thenceforth to any establishment of Her Majesty's Civil Service, except in conformity with certain regulations to the order now in recital annexed, or with such further regulations as the said Civil Service Commissioners might, with the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, issue in execution of their powers in that behalf.

2. That a week's notice which might, at the discretion of the chief of the department, be extended to a month's notice, should be given to all acting writers (except such as fell within the terms of clause 3 of the order now in recital) who should not be willing to continue their service upon the terms of the regulations thereto appended.

3. That temporary writers theretofore certificated by the Civil Service Commissioners for service in any particular department, and temporary writers at the date of the order now in recital borne upon the register of the Civil Service Commissioners, who had been respectively serving in the same department continuously from a date preceding 4th June 1870, should be excepted from clause 2, and be retained, but only so long as their services were required in the same department at the salary or wages, and on the other terms, which they were actually receiving and were actually subject to on 4th June 1870, without any addition thereto or alteration therein on account of service following that date.

My Lords take notice that many temporary writers were serving in Her Majesty's civil establishments on 4th June 1870, upon terms which included certain annual increments of their wages up to a maximum according to their efficiency and good conduct, and also included certain provisions for terminating their service should it be no longer required.

My Lords further advert to various communications showing that the said last-mentioned writers had, up to the date of the herein-before recited Order in Council of 19th August 1871, generally, although erroneously, construed the said terms to mean that (with the exception of misconduct) the same writers should be retained in employment on their then terms, as long as work of the kind which they had been engaged to do required to be done in the departments where they were employed.

My Lords hold that in order to maintain clearly a distinction between temporary writers and persons serving in an established capacity in the permanent civil service of the state, it was absolutely necessary to substitute such terms as those in the said Order in Council of the 19th August 1871, for the terms which included progressive wages, but, in order to compensate the existing writers, as far as is reasonable, for any disappointment which this alteration in the terms of temporary service may have occasioned to them, my Lords are pleased to direct as follows:

on the

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Every temporary writer, under whatever name, who was 4th June 1870 employed in any of Her Majesty's civil establishments, and was engaged upon terms which included progressive wages, shall 27 June 1872. (subject to the provision by Parliament of the necessary funds) be allowed his choice of the following alternatives :

:

(A.) Either to continue in his employment upon the terms laid down in clause 3 of the Order in Council of 19th August 1871; or,

(B.) To retire, receiving a gratuity upon the scale of a pension commuted at five years' purchase under section 7 of the Superannuation Act of 1859, as applied by the Treasury Minute of 14th June 1859.*

Those writers who may elect to receive the gratuities will be eligible for re-employment as writers on the ordinary scale under the regulations contained in the schedule to the Order in Council of 19th August 1871.

10th September 1872.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer submits to the Board that in order to secure that uniform effect be given to the Order in Council of 9th August 1872, on the subject of writers, intimation should be conveyed 10 Sept. 1872. to the chiefs of departments that the Order in question contemplates(a.) The payment to every writer to whom it applies of the difference between his actual receipts up to the 9th August 1872, and what his receipts would have been had no alteration been made in his old scale, including his increments before 19th August 1871; and,

(b.) That he be paid from 9th August 1872, inclusive, at the rate to which his old scale, including his increments, would have brought him on the 19th August 1871, had no change been made in it upon that date.

My Lords approve.

Let a copy of this minute be sent to the heads of the various public departments, in order that they may give effect to the Order in Council in the manner explained above.

13th September 1872.

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The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have received several applications from writers to be promoted, as vacancies occur, to the establishment of the department in which they have been serving, 13 Sept. 1872. and such applicants have referred my Lords to the reply given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to a question put by Mr. Otway in the

* Extract from Treasury Minute of 14th June 1859-"With respect to cases of "abolition of office which may arise under clause 7 of 22 Vict. cap. 26, to persons "who shall have served 20 years and upwards, a period of 10 years shall be added "to their actual service in computing their retiring allowance under the circumstances described in the clause in question.

"To persons who shall have served under 20 years, and not less than 15 years, a

period of seven years shall be added.

"To persons who shall have served under 15 years, and not less than 10, a period "of five years shall be added.

"To persons who shall have served under 10 years, and not less than five, a

period of three years shall be added.

"To persons who shall have served less than five years an allowance shall be "awarded calculated at the rate of one sixtieth for each year of service, "with an addition of one year or one sixtieth.

"In consideration, however, of the very small allowances which would frequently "have to be granted in these latter cases, my Lords will

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"such annual allowances for fixed payments calculated at five years purchase.'