12. Principles of Scotch Law. [The prominent parts of the leading subjects in the treatises of Bell or Erskine.]

18 and 24.
See note on p. 37.

Fee for Examination.

F

108

Part II.-Competitive Examination.

1. Arithmetic and elementary Algebra and Geometry.

2. Mechanical Engineering.

3. Metallurgy (elementary).

4. The strength and properties of Materials and Calcu-
lation of Strains.

5. Drawing Machinery to scale and by the eye.

Candidates will be required to show a competent knowledge of each of these subjects.

No candidate will be eligible who has not passed with credit through the various branches of a Mechanical Engineer's establishment, and satisfactory evidence on this point will be required.

VII. [SCH. A.] SECOND CLASS ASSISTANTS OF EXCISE.

(A.) Obligatory:

Marks.

1. Handwriting

On the first day of the month in which the exa

400

2. Orthography

mination is held.

3. Arithmetic (to Vulgar and Decimal Frac

tions)

4. English Composition

400

(B.) Optional:

5. Higher Arithmetic, including Mensuration,
Square and Cube Root, &c.

6. Geography, especially that of the British
Isles

400

Candidates must be unmarried and without family.

400

VIII. [N.] WAREHOUSEMEN, STAMPERS, PACKERS, WARE-
HOUSE PORTERS, BINDERS, OFFICE KEEPERS, MES-
SENGERS, PORTERS AT GLASGOW, AND
KEEPERS OR SORTERS.

WILL

1. Reading.

2. Writing from Dictation.

3. Arithmetic (elementary).

20 and 35.*+
Stampers and ware-
housemen selected from
among the machine boys
must be over 16. Ware-
housemen promoted

from junior warehouse-
men are eligible from 17
years of age.

* A person nominated to this Department who has previously and up to the time of such nomination been in continuous employment of the Government, may be admitted, whatever his age, provided he has served from a time at which he was within the limits of age for the situation to which it is proposed

to appoint him.

Any candidate presenting himself within one month after attaining the prescribed age will be eligible for examination.

A person nominated to this Department who has previously and up to the time of such nomination been in continuous employment of the Government, may be admitted, whatever his age, provided he has served from a time at which he was within the limits of age for the situation to which it is proposed to appoint him.

Any candidate presenting himself within one month after attaining the prescribed age will be eligible

for examination.

(a) See note on p. 36.