Real life in India, the requirements of individuals appointed to the Indian public service1847 |
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Page 64 - Cadets nominated for either of the above corps must be sixteen years of age, and under twenty-two, unless they have held a commission in her Majesty's service for one year, or in the militia or fencibles when embodied, and have been called into actual service, or from the company of cadets in the royal regiment of artillery ; they are then eligible if not more than...
Page 35 - ... entering the seminary. No person who has been dismissed the Army or Navy, the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, the Royal .Military Academy at Woolwich, or...
Page 37 - Arts. 45—63, and those articles dependent on the Differential Calculus. " It is also very desirable that a cadet on joining the Seminary be able to draw with facility in pencil, and shade with Indian ink. " 9. Every cadet, upon his admission, is considered a Probationary pupil for the first six months ; at the end of which period the public examiner will be required to report to the Military Committee, on the probability of the cadet being able to pass for the artillery or infantry ia the required...
Page 167 - All officers not mentioned in the above table, whose rank is regulated by comparison with rank in the army, to have the same rank with reference to civil servants as is enjoyed by military officers of equal grades.
Page 30 - College, unless he be found to possess a competent knowledge thereof; nor unless he be able to render into English some portion of the works of one of the following Greek authors, — Homer, Herodotus, Xenophon, Thucydides, Sophocles, and Euripides ; nor unless he can render into English some portion of the works of one of the following Latin authors, — Livy, Terence, Cicero, Tacitus, Virgil, and Horace ; and this part of the examination will include questions in ancient history, geography, and...
Page 164 - ... their address, forwarding at the same time the certificates they received in India. The period of furlough is three years, reckoning from its date to the day of the return of the officer to his Presidency. Officers are required to join the establishment to which they belong at the expiration of the three years...