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to present this in a consecutive and readable shape, expressed as distinctly as possible; (3) to be as brief as is compatible with completeness and distinctness.

You are recommended to read the whole Correspondence through carefully before beginning to write, as the goodness both of the Abstract and of the Précis will depend very much on a correct appreciation of the relative importance of the different parts.

I.

Parliamentary Paper. Persia. Sess. No. 63, 1857.

II.

Parliamentary Paper. New Palace at Westminster. Sess. No. 405,

1856.

III.

Parliamentary Paper. Vancouver's Island. Sess. No. 229, Sess. 2, 1857.

IV.

Correspondence respecting Consular Interference for the Prevention of Smuggling in China. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, 1857.

V.

Parliamentary Paper. Hong Kong. Sess. No. 115, Sess. 2, 1857.

V1.

Correspondence respecting Insults in China. No. 98,-end.

Ditto., No. 7-10, inclusive.

VII.

ABSTRACT OF PAPERS.

Make an Abstract or Summary of the accompanying Papers. (The Abstract should contain the substance of the evidence, clearly and distinctly stated, and as briefly as is consistent with omitting nothing of importance.)

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Sir R. Mayne's Evidence before the Select Committee on Transportation, p. 134-145.

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Sir A. Alison's Evidence before the Select Committee on Transportation, p. 28-37.

INDEXING.

(Set to Treasury Supplementary Clerks.)

(Time allowed 2 hours.)

Continue, in the manner indicated below, an Index to the Correspondence appended to the Report of the Civil Service Commissioners, beginning at page 71.

Correspondents
and

Date of Letter.

1. General Register Office.

The Registrar General to Mr.
H. Mann, 19 June 1855.

2. Do. to Do., 20 Nov. 1855.
3. Board of Health.

Mr. T. Taylor to Mr. H. Mann. (No date.)

Substance of Communication.

Fixing limits of age and qualifica-
tions for Clerks.
Altering limits of age.

No appointments made since 21
May 1855. No special rules

laid down.

N.B. This exercise is intended to test the following qualifications: 1. The power of seizing the important point or points in each letter, and expressing the same correctly, briefly, and distinctly. 2. Distinctness and neatness of handwriting.

3. Rapidity.

ARITHMETIC.

ADDITION.

Set to all Candidates who are required to show a knowledge of Arithmetic, with the exception of Tidewaiters, Weighers, Letter Carriers, Mail Guards and Messengers.

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ARITHMETIC (ELEMENTARY).

Set to Temporary Clerks in the War Department, Post Office Provincial Clerks, Tidewaiters, and Weighers.

No. 1.

(Time allowed, 2 hours. Time occupied from to

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5. Multiply 60538067 by 83.

6. Multiply 64059008 by 720106.
7. Multiply 6,814l. 17s. 34d. by 11.
8. Multiply 4,016. 11s. 2 d. by 94.
9. Divide 434589760126 by 9.
10. Divide 327840937575 by 716.
11. Divide 8,0521. 16s. 6d. by 44.

12. Divide 1,068,0917. 12s. 11d. by 329.

13. Write down in figures,

(1) Five hundred thousand four hundred and one.
(2) Thirty million seven thousand and forty.

(3) Five hundred and six million and twenty.

No. 2.

(Time allowed, 2 hours. Time occupied from to .)

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