* If pensioners from the cavalry, 48 years; if pensioners from other arms of the service, 42 years. An artificer or labourer may be promoted to this class up to 55, provided he were appointed to the per manent establishment in the inferior capacities before 35, 43, or 42 respectively, and that his service has been continuous.

† Viewers to be eligible in regard to age provided that they have been appointed and continued to serve in the Department previous to attaining the age of 45, and that their appointment as permanent Viewers takes place before they attain the age of 55.

Persons may be appointed to the Royal Engineer and Barrack Departments subsequently to their discharge to pension from the Army up to the age of 45.

Department, and Qualifications required.

Limits of Age.

Fee for
Exami-

WOODS, OFFICE OF-continued,

ASSISTANT CLERKS-continued.

4. English composition.

5. Accounts and Book-keeping.

6. Scotch Law.

7. Latin Translation.

Candidates will be required to show what business habits and practical experience they have acquired to qualify themselves for a situation of this nature, and they must satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners on this point before they can be admitted to the competition. Their knowledge of Scotch Law must especially include some acquaintance with the Law as to Teinds, and the Law relating to Salmon and other Sea Fishings. They must also possess practical experience of the Scotch mode of conducting proceedings in each subject.

II. [SCH. A.] JUNIOR CLERKS

Obligatory Subjects.

20 and 30.

See note on p. 37.

19 and 23.

See note on p. 37.

21 and 35.

nation.

21.

11.

180

SITUATIONS added to SCHEDULE A. of the ORDER IN COUNCIL of 4th June 1870.

Department.

Date of Publication in the
London Gazette.

Second Class Assistants of Excise in the Inland
Revenue.

Out-door Officers in the Customs

Clerks in Convict Prisons, and in the Office of the
Directors of Convict Prisons.

Clerks in the Metropolitan Police Courts

Clerks in the Office of the Inspectors of Factories

Clerks in the Office of the Inspectors of Salmon
Fisheries.

Clerks in the Office of the Inspectors of Burial
Grounds.

Clerks in the Public Record Office (Ireland)
Clerks in the Lunacy Commission (England)
Clerks in the Office of Prison Managers (Scotland)
Situations under the Local Government Board in
like manner and so far as situations formerly held
under the Poor Law Board.

Junior Clerks in the Superior Establishment, and
Junior Clerks in the Supplementary Establishment
of the Ecclesiastical Commission.

Patent Office

Junior Clerks in the Office of the Comptroller in
Bankruptcy.

Home Office and Subordinate Departments -
Clerk and Copying Clerk in the Registry of Friendly
Societies.

• Withdrawn from Schedule A. by notice in London Gazette, 15 September 1874.

SITUATIONS Withdrawn from SCHEDULE A. of the ORDER IN COUNCIL of 4th June 1870.

Temporary Third Clerk in the Judicial Department 1 March 1872.
of the Privy Council Office.

Foreman of the Press Room, Foreman of the Die 7 January 1873.
Department, and Gasfitter and Lamplighter in the
Mint.

Subordinate Appointments made locally in the Con-
trol Department in the Colonies.

Temporary Draughtsman and Clerk of Works, employed locally under the provisions of "The Military Forces Localization Act, 1872."

Civil Assistants in the Ordnance Survey Department of the Office of Works who have served continuously from a date preceding the 29th September 1870.

Situations created under the second of the Admi-
ralty Regulations, dated the 1st November 1873,
intituled "Regulations for appointment of Admi-
ralty Writers."

Temporary Assistant Geologists and Temporary Fossil
Collectors in the Science and Art Department.

6 June 1873.

22 July 1873.

11 November 1878.

23 December 1873.

8 May 1874.

Restored to Schedule A. by notice in London Gazette, 30 December 1870. ↑ Restored to Schedule A. by notice in London Gazette, 3 January 1871.

Department and Situation.

Date of Publication in the
London Gazette.

Warders, Matrons, and other subordinate servants in
Prisons, Lunatic Asylums, and Hospitals.
Senior Warehousemen, Inland Revenue
Sub-Inspector of Factories in the Home Department
Light Keeper and Assistant Light Keeper at the Is-
land of Sombrero.

All situations in Convict Prisons and State Lunatic
Asylums in Great Britain.

Clerk in the Offices of the Commissioner and the
Receiver of Metropolitan Police.

The following situations on the Established and Hired
Wages Lists of Her Majesty's Naval Hospitals
and Marine Infirmaries at Home and Abroad :--

Matrons, Butlers or Stewards,* Assistant or under Stewards, Porters or Messengers, Gardeners, Cooks,* Assistant Cooks, Male and Female Attendants on Lunatics, Wardmasters, Dispensarymen, Hospital Peons (Natives), Barbers, Plumbers and Overseers of Gas, Foremen of Washing Machinery, Engine Drivers,* Assistant Engine Drivers, Carpenters, Boatmen, Principal or Ordinary Labourers employed in any capacity, and Watchmen.

9 June 1974.

26 June 1874.

28 July 1874.
18 August 1874.

15 September 1874.

16 March 1875.

11 June 1875.

Situations of Usher and Assistant Clerk, respectively, 7 May 1878. in the Metropolitan Police Courts.

All situations of whatever kind within the meaning 27 August 1878. of the Prisons Act, 1877.

The office of Timekeeper, Storekeeper, and Clerk and Cattle Account Keeper in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.

3 September 1878.

The situation of clerk in the office of the registrar 8 October 1878. of Petty Sessions Clerks, Ireland.

Draughtsman in the Prisons Department, Scotland

6 December 1878.

At hospitals where there are no established Assistants of these ratings available for promotion in the ordinary course.

t The situations on the Hired Wages List have since (26 June 1877) been gazetted into Schedule B.