Cases of exceptional shortness of stature will be referred to the War 10. The limits of age for candidates for admission to the Royal Military College by competition, for Queen's cadets, Queen's honorary cadets, Indian cadets, and pages of honour, will be from 17 to 20; for students of the universities who shall have passed the interim examination as specified in paragraph 3 (b), from 17 to 21; and for graduates of the universities who shall have passed the examination for the degree of B.A. or M.A., from 17 to 22. 11. Competitors who desire to obtain commissions in West India regiments may be admitted up to the age of 24. This extension of the limit of age will not apply to university candidates. 12. Candidates must be within the prescribed limits of age on the following dates : *13. A candidate for admission by competition at the December or July examination must send to the Military Secretary, not later than the 15th October or 15th May respectively, an application to be examined, accompanied by the following papers : (a.) An extract from the register of his birth; or, in default, a declaration made by one of his parents or guardians before a magistrate, giving his exact age. (b.) A certificate of good moral character, signed by the tutors or heads of the schools or colleges at which he has received his education from his twelfth year to the date of application, or some other satisfactory proof of good moral character. *14. When a candidate who has once been examined applies to be examined again, he will only be required to forward a certificate as to his moral character for the interval between the two examinations. *15. A candidate will be required to satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners in the following subjects: (1.) Mathematics,-viz., (a) arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions, proportion, and simple interest; (b) geometry, not beyond the standard of the first book of Euclid. (2.) French, German, or some other modern language; the examination being limited to a translation from the language, and grammatical questions. (3.) Writing English correctly, and in a good legible hand, from dictation. (4.) The elements of geometrical drawing; including the construction of scales, and the use of simple mathematical instruments. (5.) Geography. 16. No marks will be allotted for the above preliminary examination, excepting for geometrical drawing, the maximum number for which will * Paragraphs 13-17 have been modified (see p. 270). ROYAL AND ROYAL July 1878. ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, AND ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY. July 1878. be 300. The preliminary examination will be dispensed with in the case of candidates who have passed it at previous examinations, but they may again take up geometrical drawing if they wish to obtain. marks in that subject. *17. The "further examination" will be proceeded with immediately on the conclusion of the "preliminary examination." Candidates who fail in the preliminary examination will be informed of their failure as soon as possible, and they will then be released from further attendance. 18. The subjects of the further examination, and the maximum number of marks obtainable for each subject, will be as follows:- (1.) Mathematics,-viz., algebra, up to and including (2.) English composition, tested by the power of writing an (3.) Latin (4.) Greek (5.) French; the examination to be partly colloquial or (b) electricity and magnetism (8.) General and physical geography, and geology Marks. 3,000 3,000 - 3,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 1,000 Of these nine subjects candidates will not be allowed to take up more than four nor less than two, exclusive of drawing. 19. In order to secure a proper proficiency in all the subjects taken up by a candidate, a certain number will be deducted from the marks gained by the candidate in each subject. 20. The following will be the mode of selecting the successful candidates at the open competitive examination. After the proper deduction (in accordance with paragraph 19) has been made from the number of marks gained by each candidate in the several subjects in which he has been examined, the remainders will be summed up, and the marks gained by the candidate, in geometrical drawing, at the preliminary examination will be added thereto. The resulting total will determine the place of the candidate in the competitive list; the successful candidates being those who stand at the head of the list up to the number of cadetships competed for. * Paragraphs 13-17 have been modified (see p. 270). The authors specified for the examination were as follows, viz. :— Faery Queen, Book II. Richard III. Dryden (Christie's Edition) Stanzas on Cromwell. § Subjects (a) and (b) are alternative; a candidate will not be allowed to take up both. 3. EXAMINATION OF UNIVERSITY CANDIDATES. 21. A graduate or student of one of the universities specified in paragraph 3 who, having obtained his university qualification while within the maximum limit of age specified in paragraph 10, is desirous of becoming a candidate for a cadetship at the Royal Military College, must send an application to the Military Secretary in the month of May or October, with a view to his appointment under the provisions of paragraph 22; but no such application can be admitted before the candidate has actually attained the age of 17, nor later than the 31st of May or 31st October next following the date of his attaining the maximum limits of age prescribed for graduates and students, respectively, in paragraph 10. The application must be accompained by papers (a) and (b) described in paragraph 13, and by a certificate from the proper authority that he has taken his degree in Arts, or has passed the university examination specified in paragraph 3 (b). 22. Notice will be given from time to time of the number of cadetships which will be allotted half-yearly to university candidates. In case there should be more candidates than vacancies, the required number will be selected by competition among the said candidates at the ensuing July or December examination, but without a preliminary examination, except in geometrical drawing, which is obligatory. University candidates who may have been unsuccessful at their first examination will be allowed a second opportunity of competing, provided that "students" shall not have exceeded their twenty-second year, and that "graduates" shall not have exceeded their twenty-third year, at the time of such second examination. These limits of age will be ruled by the 1st July for the summer and by the 1st January for the winter examinations. 4. EXAMINATION OF QUEEN'S AND INDIAN CADETS AND PAGES OF HONOUR. 23. Queen's cadets are sons of officers of the Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Marines, who have fallen in action, or died of wounds received in action, or of disease contracted on service abroad, and who have left their families in reduced circumstances. They are appointed by the Secretary of State on the recommendation of the Commander-in-Chief or First Lord of the Admiralty. 24. Honorary Queen's cadets are sons of officers of the Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Marines who were killed in action or who had died of wounds received in action within six months of such wounds having been received, or of illness brought on by fatigue, privation, or exposure incident to active operations in the field before an enemy, within six months after their having been first certified to be ill. (See Article 5 of the Royal Warrant of 27th November 1873, clause 151, Army Circulars, 1873.) 25. Applications for Queen's cadetships and honorary Queen's cadetships should be addressed to the Military Secretary, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Army, or to the Secretary of the Admiralty, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Royal Navy or Royal Marines. 26. Indian cadets are the sons of persons who have served in India in the military or civil service of Her Majesty, or of the East India Company, and are nominated by the Secretary of State for India in Council, under the provisions of 21 & 22 Vict. c. 106. and 23 & 24 Vict. c. 100. Applications for Indian cadetships should be addressed to the Military Secretary, India Office. ROYAL AND ROYAL July 1878. ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, AND ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY. 27. A Queen's cadet, honorary Queen's cadet, Indian cadet, or page of honour, when ready for examination, will apply in the manner directed by paragraph 13 or 14. 28. Queen's cadets, honorary Queen's cadets, Indian cadets, and pages of honour, before admission to the Royal Military College, will be required to pass a qualifying entrance examination only-i.e., after having passed the preliminary examination under paragraph 15, they must obtain under paragraphs 18 and 19 such an aggregate of marks as may indicate in the judgment of the Civil Service Commissioners a competent amount of general proficiency. 29. A Queen's cadet, honorary Queen's cadet, Indian cadet, or page of honour, who can produce a University certificate, as prescribed in paragraph 3 (6), will be exempted from the qualifying entrance examination described in the preceding paragraph. The following General Order (69 of 1877) modifies paragraphs 13 to 17 of the Regulations issued with General Order 88 of 1876. G.O. 69.-EXAMINATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE ROYAL MILITARY I. After the examination in July 1878, the "preliminary" will be separated from the "further" or competitive portion of the examination for admission to the Royal Military College. II. Special preliminary examinations will be held in the spring and autumn of each year by the Civil Service Commissioners, to whom intending candidates should apply. III. The further examinations will be held half-yearly, in the months of July and December, as at present; and candidates for those examinations are to apply to the Military Secretary, as prescribed by existing regulations. IV. No candidate will be allowed to attend the "further" until he has passed the "preliminary" examination, or can produce a certificate as laid down in para. V. V. Candidates will be exempted from the "preliminary" examination, in all subjects except Geometrical Drawing, if they can produce the certificate of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board, provided it embraces Mathematics. If it does not include that subject, they will be required also to undergo an examination therein. Paragraph V. of the above General Order comes into operation at once, but the other paragraphs will not apply until after July 1878. MILITIA. (These Regulations will not apply after the end of 1878.) Regulations respecting the Examination of Lieutenants of Militia recommended for Commissions in the Regular Army. [Issued with G.O. 8 of 1877.] 1. Notice will be given from time to time to officers commanding Militia regiments whenever they will be permitted to recommend a lieutenant for a commission as 2nd lieutenant in the Army. 2. A lieutenant of Militia so recommended must not be less than 19 nor more than 22 years of age on the 1st of May of the year in which he is nominated (except officers who entered the Militia between (a.) To have served two annual trainings with his Militia regiment. (c.) To produce a certificate from a board of examination that he is The first two parts of the "Field Exercises of the Infantry" Rifle drill and practice; and the theoretical principles of The duties of regimental orderly officers, of officers com- Those parts of the Queen's Regulations and Orders for the (d.) To be recommended by his commanding officer, the recommen- 3. A Militia candidate will be required to satisfy the Civil Service Commission in the following subjects: (1.) Mathematics,-viz., (a) arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions, proportion, and simple interest; (b) geometry, not beyond the standard of the first book of Euclid. (2.) French, German, or some other modern language; the examination being limited to a translation from the language, and grammatical questions. (3.) Writing English correctly, and in a good legible hand, from dictation. (4.) The elements of geometrical drawing; including the construction of scales, and the use of simple mathematical instruments. (5.) Geography. 4. All the subjects of the above preliminary examination are obligatory, but no marks will be allotted excepting for geometrical drawing, the maximum number for which will be 300. ROYAL AND ROYAL July 1878. *When an officer has within two years obtained a certificate of qualification in drill from a school of instruction or from a board of officers, he will be examined only in such of the required subjects as he has not already passed in. In the case of the Channel Islands Militia, the recommendation must be confirmed by the Lieutenant-Governor. |