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REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO PERSONS NOMINATED TO OFFICES IN H.M. CUSTOMS.

Amended Rules, applicable to persons nominated to offices in the Customs; showing the ages for admission, the proofs that will be required in regard to the age, state of health, previous character and pursuits of the parties, the qualifications that will be necessary for the various offices, and the instruction and probation which the parties will be required to undergo.

I. AGE.

The age of admission to the establishment to be as follows, viz.: :

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The date of the Treasury nomination to be the governing date as respects the age of admission, i.e., a person who was under 25 years of age at the time of his nomination, but who may have attained that age before he appears to take up his appointment, will be deemed to be within the prescribed age, provided he present himself at the office of the Civil Service Commissioners, or to the local officers, for examination within one month from the date of the Treasury nomination. Persons who have previously served in other public departments nominated to offices for which the maximum age of admission is 25 years, to be admitted up to the age of 30 years, provided they are appointed direct from such department, and had not attained the age of 25 when first appointed to the public service; but no person will be admitted as boatman, watchman, or messenger, who shall have attained the ages of 30 or 35 years respectively, although removed from another department. Extra clerks and extra officers promoted to the establishment to be ad

mitted up to the age of 40 years, provided they were first employed in the Customs before they attained the age of 25, 30, and 35 years respectively, and have been employed not less than six months in each year.

Proof of Age.

1st. Persons born in England or Wales subsequently to the 30th of June, 1837, should produce certificates from the registrar-general of births, &c., or his local officers, and in ordinary cases no further evidence will be required; any person not producing such certificate must account for its non-production, and must prove his age by satisfactory evidence.

2nd. All other persons should produce certificates of baptism, duly signed and in the regular form; but where a baptismal certificate is not produced, satisfactory reasons for its non-production must be assigned and verified.

Where certificates of baptism specify the time of birth, and no suspicion of irregularity exists, further evidence will not be required.

Where a baptismal certificate does not state the time of birth, and where no baptismal certificate can be procured, the best evidence that can be given of the date of birth must be obtained.

In the case of dissenters, the non-parochial registers deposited under the Act 3 and 4 Vict., cap. 92, with the Registrar-general in Somerset House will be available. If evidence be offered by a family Bible or record, an extract therefrom must be made and subscribed by some credible and disinterested person, with the following form of attestation:

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Should there be no record whatever of the date of birth, the evidence of some credible and disinterested person who can speak as to the age of the party must be obtained. Such

Person must be required to make a solemn declaration before a magistrate as to the date of birth, and as to the particular circumstances which enable him or her to speak to the fact.

II. HEALTH.

Persons nominated to offices in London will be required to be examined by the medical inspector, and those nominated to offices at the Outports must produce a certificate, dated subsequently to the nomination, signed by a member of one of the Colleges of Physicians, or Surgeons, or of the Apothecaries' Company, or by a medical graduate of an university.

At those ports at which a medical practitioner is specially employed to report on all medical cases upon which the Board may require information, the certificate of that practitioner only will be accepted when the candidate is residing at or near one of those ports, and if residing in or near London, he will be required to attend the medical inspector for examination.

The collectors at the outports will in all cases report in addition whether they have any reason to suppose, from the appearance of the person nominated, or from any information which may have come to their knowledge, that he would not be able permanently and satisfactorily to discharge the duties of the office to which he is nominated.

III. CHARACTER.

Persons who have been previously in any employment should name their last employer as one of their referees. Those who have left school within two years before their nomination should name their last schoolmaster as one of their referees.

No person will be admitted to the service who shall have been guilty of an offence against the Revenue laws, or who shall have been dismissed from any other department of the public service, or who may not be free from debt, proof of which must be furnished.

IV. EXAMINATION.

Persons nominated to situations in the Customs will undergo an examination as follows, viz. :

I. Clerks in the Solicitor's Office

1st. Exercise designed to test handwriting and orthography.
2nd. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3rd. English composition.

4th. Geography.

5th. English history.

6th Latin.

II. Clerks not in the Solicitor's Office, Extra Clerks, Examining Officers, and Gaugers

1st. Exercise designed to test hand writing and orthography.

2nd. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions.

3rd. English composition.

4th. Geography.

5th. English history.

III. Out-door Officers.

1st. Writing from dictation.

2nd. Arithmetic (first four rules) and the different weights and

measures.

IV. Messengers must be able to read and write, and be acquainted with the first four rules of arithmetic.

V. Boatmen and watchmen must also be able to read and write.

All persons must present themselves within one month from the date of their nominations, in order to take up their appointments; and in the case of candidates for the offices specified in the last three classes, the medical examination will precede that in educational subjects.

Locality, &c., of Examinations.

I. Persons nominated as clerks, extra clerks, examining officers, or gaugers in London, and persons nominated as examining officers at Folkestone, Dover, and Newhaven will, as a general rule, be examined at the office of the Civil Service Commissioners, wherever they may be resident.

II. Persons nominated as out-door officers and messengers in London, and persons nominated to appointments of any description at other ports, except as above and undermentioned, to be examined as follows:

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NOTE.-In those cases where persons nominated to offices in London are examined at the Outports, the parties will be required to be examined by the Medical Inspector of Customs in London, before a final certificate of qualification will be granted by the Civil Service Commissioners.

III. Persons nominated as boatmen and watchmen in London, who are not at present required to be examined by the Civil Service Commissioners, to be examined by the controller of the out-door department.

The examination at the outports for the like situations to be by the collectors, the persons nominated being also subjected, under the direction of those officers, to such further examination as may be advisable by the surveyors at the port.

In all cases the principal officers are to satisfy themselves, as far as practicable, that the candidates are proper persons to be admitted into the service, and to state their own opinion as to the age of the parties when reporting the result of their inquiries.

V. INSTRUCTION AND PROBATION.

Upon the receipt of certificates of qualification from the Civil Service Commissioners, the candidates will be placed under instruction, or on probation, as follows, viz. :Examining officers and gaugers will be placed under a course of instruction for 1 month without pay, and then on duty on probation for 6 months.

Clerks, extra clerks, out-door officers, and messengers, will at once be placed on duty on probation for 6 months.

Boatmen and watchmen will be placed on duty on probation for 1 month.*

* Boatmen and Watchmen will in future be examined as to their ability to read and write under the directions of the Civil Service Commissioners, and be placed on probation for six months.-G. O., No. 74, 1861.

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