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Page 182 - 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.
Page 181 - 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.
Page 184 - Arabic Grammar; Arabic Prosody. ENGLISH HISTORY. — General questions on English History from AD 800 to AD 1848; questions on the Constitutional History of England from AD 800 to AD 1848.
Page 183 - The examination in this part will require from candidates a more minute acquaintance with the history of the English Language and Literature, as illustrated in the chief works produced in each period, and will be based to a considerable extent, but by no means exclusively, on certain books specified each year by the...
Page 184 - HISTORY. — Questions on the General History of Greece to the death of Alexander; questions on the Constitutional History of Greece during the same period. ROMAN HISTORY. — Questions on the General History of Rome to the death of Vespasian; questions on the Constitutional History of Rome during the same period. In Greek and Roman History candidates will be expected to show a knowledge of the original authorities. MATHEMATICS.
Page 329 - The court of directors was, in its turn, answerable to the shareholders, or court of proprietors, on the one hand; and, through the board of control, to the sovereign and to parliament on the other. The act of 1858 did away with these intermediary bodies between the governorgeneral and the British ministry. For the court of directors, the court of proprietors, and the board of control, it substituted a secretary of state, aided by a council who are now appointed by him.
Page 330 - The district officer, whether known as collector-magistrate or as deputy commissioner, is the responsible head of his jurisdiction. Upon his energy and personal character depends ultimately the efficiency of our Indian Government. His own special duties are so numerous and so various as to bewilder the outsider ; and the work of his subordinates, European and native, largely depends upon the stimulus of his personal example.
Page 180 - Regulations are liable to alteration from year to year. 1. An Examination for admission to the Civil Service of India, open to all qualified persons, will be held in London in August of each year. The date of the Examination and the number of appointments to be made for each province will be announced beforehand by the Civil Service Commissioners. 2 No person will be deemed qualified who shall not satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners : — (i.) That he is a natural-born subject of...
Page 180 - ... 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...
Page 303 - If any pension-holder whose pension has been commuted in pursuance of this Act accepts any public employment, a deduction shall be made from the salary payable to him in respect of such employment equal to the amount which would have been abated from the pension if It...