TWENTY-SECOND REPORT OF HER MAJESTY'S CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS, TOGETHER WITH APPENDICES. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. [C.-2178.] Price 38. 3d. APPENDIX II.-Regulations respecting Open Competitive Ex- aminations settled since the issue of the 21st Report APPENDIX III.-Limits of Age and Subjects of Examination prescribed for the various Departments TWENTY-SECOND REPORT. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, WE, Your Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners, humbly offer to Your Majesty this our Twenty-second Report. The statistical tables appended to the Report present in detail an account of the examinations held during the year 1877. The total number of cases dealt with in that year was 15,888 ;* the corresponding number in 1876 having been 14,362. These numbers may be distributed under the following heads: The following statement shows in a summary form the particulars of the 11,882 Home Civil Service cases dealt with under the Order in Council in 1877, as compared with the 11,396 cases similarly dealt with in 1876 In these and similar statements a candidate who appeared twice (or more) is counted as two (or more) candidates. F 464. Wt. 17050. a 2 The principal competitions held during the year 1877, were as follows:- The only competition in the above list which presents any novel feature is that for the appointment of Student Dragoman in the Consular Service in Turkey, Persia, and Egypt. The nature of these appointments and the conditions of the competition are stated at p. 566 of the Appendix. At the examination held in August 1877, a large number of candidates offered themselves, viz., 432 for eight appointments. Of this large number 254 actually went through the examination; but of these not more than 17 showed a competent knowledge of the prescribed subjects. The following is a list of the DEPARTMENTS to which LoWER DIVISION CLERKS (Men or Boys) have been assigned in pursuance of the Order in Council of 12th February 1876 :-Admiralty; * These were open competitions. |