In Hindustani he will be expected to read with fluency in the Persian character, and write it legibly; to possess a competent knowledge of the Grammar of the Hindustani languages, and to translate, vivá voce, from Hindustani into English, portions of works which he has read in class. XI. The period of residence at the College for the Junior Department is fixed at three Terms, or one and a half years; but Cadets who after one year's residence may be reported qualified, will have the option of receiving Commissions in the Infantry, or remaining six months longer at the College to prosecute their studies, with a view to competing for Cadetships in the Senior Department. XII. Cadets who are unable to pass a minimum examination at the end of the third term, will forfeit their claim to any appointment whatever. Those Cadets who do pass their examination and obtain appointments in the Infantry, will be required to leave England within three months from the date of their passing, and they will take rank amongst each other according as they are classified by the Public Examiner. The time also passed by them at the College will count for service in calculating their claims in Retiring Pension on full pay, if appointed from the College, or if they pass into the Upper Division by successful competition. XIII. Cadets appointed to the Infantry from the Addiscombe College, will take rank in the army above all other Cadets who are appointed, from the commencement of three months previously to the date of the College Cadets being reported qualified. INDIA OFFICE, 9th March, 1859. Regulations for the admission of Candidates for Cadetships in the Engineers and Artillery of Her Majesty's Indian Forces. Under the 34th Clause of the Act of the 21st and 22nd Vict., cap. 106. I. The ROYAL INDIAN MILITARY COLLEGE AT ADDISCOMBE will in future be formed into two separate departments; viz., "The Senior or Scientific Department," to be filled up entirely by competition; "The Junior or Infantry department," to be filled as at present, by nomination, under the prescribed tests and examinations on entry. In order to effect this object, the admission of Cadets to the College by competition will commence from the first term of 1860. II. The Cadets who had entered the College before the 2nd September, 1858, the date on which Act 21 & 22 Vict., cap. 106, came into operation, will be eligible to commissions in the Engineers or Artillery of Her Majesty's Indian Forces, after completion of the prescribed course, and on the recommendation of ths Public Examiner. With this exception, all appointments in the Engineers and Artillery of Her Majesty's Indian Forces will henceforth be bestowed on successful competitors at Public Examinations, to be held as hereinafter described. III. Examinations will be held half-yearly at the India Office, or at such other place as may be appointed, commencing on some day in the first week of January and July respectively, for the purpose of testing the merits of Candidates for admission as Cadets into the "Senior or Scientific Department" of the Addiscombe College. IV. Examiners unconnected with the College will be hereafter nominated by the Secretary of State for India. V. The number of Cadetships to be awarded (being regulated by the wants of the service) will be communicated by the Under-Secretary of State for India to the Examiners, and will be published for general information two months previous to each public examination. VI. After each half-yearly examination, the Examiners will prepare a list of the Candidates, classified according to merit, who shall have obtained the minimum number of marks as hereinafter specified, and the required number of Cadets, corresponding with the declared vacancies, will be taken in the order of their classification, provided that number be available. VII. A Candidate who shall have obtained the minimum of marks hereinafter specified, but for whom there may be no immediate vacancy, will be permitted to compete at subsequent examinations, so long as his age may not exceed the prescribed limit; but those who do not obtain such minimum will not be permitted to compete at more than one subsequent examination. VIII. The age of admission is to be from Seventeen to Nineteen years. IX. The subjects of the competitive examinations will be as follows: ... 1,500 2. English Language, Literature, Composition, History, and Geography ... Language, Literature, Geography ... ... 750 ... ... 4. Languages, Geography, and History of France 8. ... ... 7. The use of Astronomical and Surveying Instruments Drawing-Elementary Geometrical Drawing (including the use of drawing instruments), and Architectural, Engineering, Military, and Landscape Drawing ... ... ... 1,250 750 1,000 1,000 750 1,250 X. No Candidate will be allowed to be examined in more than five subjects, of which one must be Mathematics; and no one who does not obtain at least 1,000 marks in Mathematics; of which at least 700 must be in pure Mathematics, and at least 300 in mixed Mathematics, will be considered qualified. From the other subjects of examination each Candidate may select any, not exceeding four in number, in which to be examined, but no one will be allowed to count the marks gained in any subject unless these marks shall amount to one-sixth of the total number allotted to that subject. Any Candidate who shall not select French and Geometrical Drawing, as subjects of examination, will be required to satisfy the Examiners that he has such knowledge at least of the elements of those two subjects as shall afford reasonable expectation that he will perfect himself in both during his residence in the College. XI. No Candidate will be considered qualified unless he attains an aggregate of 2,500 marks at least.. XII. The following papers will be required to be transmitted by each Candidate to the Under-Secretary of State for India, before the 1st of June and 1st of December preceding the half-yearly examination. 1. An application for permission to compete. 2. An extract from the register of his baptism, or, in default of that, a certificate verified by affidavit. 3. A certificate of good moral character, signed by the clergyman of the parish to which he belongs, and by the tutor or head of the school or college at which he has received his education, for at least two years, or such other proof of good moral character as will be satisfactory to the Secretary of State for India. 4. A statement of subjects of examination, in which (in addition to Mathematics) he may desire to be examined. XIII. No person who has been dismissed or obliged to retire from the Army or Navy, the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, or from any other public institution, will be appointed to the College. XIV. Gentlemen who have been admitted to a previous examination, or who may be attending the junior division of the College at Addiscombe, will be required to submit only the first and fourth of the papers above specified. XV. Every Candidate will be required to present himself at the place hereafter to be determined, in order to be inspected by Military Surgeons, one of whom must be the Examining Physician, who will ascertain whether he is free from all bodily and organic defects, and whether, as regards physical constitution, he is in every point of view fit for military service in a tropical climate. XVI. The period of study at the College will be one year, at the expiration of which the Cadets will be publicly examined and posted to the Engineers or Artillery, in the order of their merit, as declared by the Public Examiner, and according to the wants of the Service. Engineer Cadets will go through a further course of training at Chatham for one year, as Commissioned Officers on full pay. Artillery Cadets will undergo a professional training at Woolwich for six months as Commissioned Officers on full pay. A Cadet of the Senior Department, who, after a year's M residence at the College, shall be reported by the Public Examiner to be not qualified for a commission in the Engineers or Artillery, in Mathematics, Fortification, Civil and Military Drawing, Surveying, and Hindustani, will forfeit his appointment. Also in case of misconduct a Cadet will be liable to dismissal on the judgment of the Secretary of State for India in Council. XVII. Cadets of the Senior Department will be allowed to count as service for full-pay pension a portion not exceeding eighteen months of the time which they may have spent under official instruction in England. Their commissions as lieutenants will bear the date of their last public examination. XVIII. Young officers appointed to the Artillery or Engineers will be required to proceed en route to India within three months of the completion, by them, of the prescribed course of professional instruction at Chatham or Woolwich. Note. The Secretary of State for India in Council has determined to allow the sum of £100 to each Cadet who may obtain a commission in the Engineers or Artillery after a residence of two terms at the Addiscombe College, in aid of the expenses of his education and residence at that institution. INDIA OFFICE, 22nd February, 1859. Naby. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS FOR CANDIDATES. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have established the following regulations for the Entry of Naval Cadets, and for the Examination of Mates, Midshipmen, Naval Cadets, &c. To qualify an officer to receive a Lieutenant's Commission, he must have attained the full age of 19 years, and have been borne on the Books of, and actually served in, one or more of Her Majesty's Ships not less than five complete years, eighteen months as a Cadet, and three years and six months as a Midshipman, and shall have passed such Examinations as the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty may from time to time direct. |