BUREAU OF PENSIONS (Special-Series No. 9). SPECIAL EXAMINER EXAMINATION. Subjects. First: Orthography... Second: Penmanship. Third: Copying.... Fourth: Letter-writing. Fifth Arithmetic.. Sixth Elements of the geography, history, and Government of the United States.... Seventh: Law. Eighth: Pension law.. Total of weights.. Relative 12132 1 6 4 20 For explanation of the "relative weights" and of the method of determining the "general average," see clerk examination, p. 190. The time allowed for this examination is limited to seven consecutive hours. The first, second, third, and fourth subjects of this examination are substantially the same as the corresponding subjects of the clerk examination, and the sixth subject is substantially the same as the eighth subject of the clerk examination. (Note: The omission of the eighth subject from the clerk examination invalidates this reference in part but sample questions in geography may be found on page 251.) FIFTH SUBJECT.-Arithmetic. Question 1. Write in figures as decimal fractions: (a) Five thousand six hundred and forty-three ten-millionths. (b) Two thousand and twenty-two hundred-thousandths. Question 2. Express in words: (a) $1,500,675,001.375. (b) £17 8s. 3d. Question 3. Find the value of 2)+3-8. Give work in full. Question 4. Divide 4.5 by .012. Give work in full. Question 5. The regular salary of a Special Examiner was $350 per quarter, with $3 additional for each day actually employed. During the first quarter of 1888 he was employed an average of 20 days per month. His expenses when employed were $3 a day and when unemployed $2 a day. What was his net income for that quarter? (Series No. 10.) Give work in full. Question 6. A pension is granted to a widow from April 16, 1879, at $8 per month, and $2 per month for each of two children up to the age of 16; widow's pension increased to $12 per month from March 19, 1886. One child attains the age of 16 on September 1, 1880, and the other on November 22, 1882. She receives her first payment on March 4, 1887. How much should this be? Gire work in full. Question 7. Calculate the interest on $5,650 for 1 year 5 months 12 days at 7% per annum. Give work in full. Question 8. An examiner purchased a house for $5,500. At the end of 5 years he found that after paying interest on his money and all taxes he had received a net income from rent amounting to $10 a month. He sold the house for one-fifth more than its original cost. How much did he make by the transaction? (Series No. 10.) Give work in full. Question 9. Special examiner A reports 16 cases per mouth, B 14 cases per month, and C 12 cases per month. A receives $1,600 per year. If paid in proportion to work done, what should be the salary of B and of C? (Series No. 11.) Give work in full. Question 10. Owing to a deficiency in the appropriation bill, the salaries of the clerks in a bureau were reduced 18 per cent. for the last quarter of the fiscal year. How much did a clerk who was paid $287 for the last quarter receive during the whole fiscal year? Give work in full. SEVENTH SUBJECT.-Law. (Series No. 1.) Question 1. What is the difference, if any, between evidence and proof? Question 2. What is meant by competent evidence and what by a competent witness? Question 3. What is the difference between primary and secondary evidence? Question 4. If primary evidence can not be produced, what, if anything, is required of the party desiring to produce secondary evidence to make the same competent? Question 5. What kind or quality of evidence must a party always produce to support an allegation in legal proceedings? Question 6. What is meant by the caption and what by the jurat of an affidavit? Question 7. Draw a complete affidavit in which John Smith shall properly set forth that Samuel Jones was free from any physical disability prior to Jones's enlistment in the military service of the United States. Question 8. In what cases is evidence excluded on the ground of public policy? (Series No. 6.) Question 9. What is marriage and what are impediments to a lawful marriage (mention at least six impediments)? (Series No. 9.) Question 10. What is divorce, and in this connection what is understood by the terms "condonation" and "recrimination"? (Series No. 9.) EIGHTH SUBJECT.-Pension law. (Series No. 1.) (This subject, in recent series, contains ten questions, but the following are fair samples of the questions used in all of the examinations.) Question 1. To whom and for service in what wars are pensions granted under the laws enacted since the 4th day of March, 1861? And Question 2. What is the order of succession of those entitled to pensions? Question 3. Are the rights of soldiers and sailors the same under said laws? Question 4. What is meant by "line of duty" as used in the pension laws? state whether it necessarily embraces every soldier disabled in the military service. Question 5. Must a soldier or sailor be disabled to obtain a pension under the laws mentioned; if so, what is the standard which governs and what is the highest rate of pension? Question 6. What does the word "disability" include, and if a soldier or sailor is pensioned for disability and afterward recovers from the same will the pension continue? Question 7. Name all the circumstances or conditions under or on which the pension of a widow will terminate. (Series No. 6.) Question 8. Who are minor children under the provisions of the pension laws? What additional pension is allowed to the widow of a soldier for the care and maintenance of his children; and when does such additional pension terminate? (Series No. 6.) BUREAU OF PENSIONS (Special-Series No. 5). MEDICAL EXAMINER EXAMINATION. Subjects. First: Orthography Second: Penmanship... Third: Copying....... Fourth: Arithmetic Fifth: Anatomy and physiology Sixth: Chemistry, materia medica, and therapeutics...... Seventh General pathology and theory and practice of medicine Eighth: Surgery Ninth: Medical jurisprudence and hygiene Total of weights. For explanation of the "relative weight," and of the method of determining the “general average,” see clerk examination, p. 190. The time allowed for this examination is limited to seven consecutive hours. The first, second, and third subjects are substantially the same as the corresponding subjects of the clerk examination. FOURTH SUBJECT-Arithmetic. Question 1. Express in figures the following numbers: Ten million seventeen hundred and seven dollars thirty-seven cents and five mills. Question 2. Express in words the following figures, signs, and abbreviations: 17 Cong., 6 0., 15 ƒ3, 7 ƒZ, 59 M. Question 3. Express in words the following sign and figures: $170,001,310,525.625. Question 4. Give the remainder of: lbs. xxvj-lbs. vij. vij, 3 vj, Đij, gr. xij. Give work in full. Question 5. Add the following columns of figures so as to show (1) total expenses and (2) total receipts; and subtract the expenses from the receipts so as to show (3) the profits. Question 6. Reduce the following decimal fractions to common fractions and reduce to lowest terms: .75, .125, .1875, .4. Give work in full. Question 7. Give the value of two and one-half pounds of sulphate of eserine at 33 cents per grain. Give work in full. Question 8. There were 984 patients in a certain hospital, classified as follows: 369 pulmonary diseases; 246 nervous diseases; 123 diseases of heart; and 246 various other diseases. Give the per cent. of each class. Give work in full. Question 9. What will it cost to carpet an office-room measuring 21 feet in length and 19 feet in width; the carpeting being 3 yard wide and costing $1.35 per lineal yard? Give work in full. Question 10. A physician accepts, in payment of a bill, a note for $275.75, due in one year and three months, without grace, at 7 per cent. What amount will be due at maturity? Give work in full. FIFTH SUBJECT.-Anatomy and physiology. Question 1. Describe the portal vein and name its branches. Question 3. Name the branches of the external carotid artery. Question 4. Name all the conditions that influence the secretion of sweat. SIXTH SUBJECT.-Chemistry, materia medica, and therapeutics. Question 1. If to a solution of chloride of sodium be added a solution of nitrate of silver what chemical changes will take place? Indicate the changes by means of a chemical formula. Question 2. Name three good tests for detecting sugar in the urine. Question 3. Name the officinal preparations of iodine and give their physiological action and therapy. Question 4. Name the officinal preparations of colchicum and give the dose of each. SEVENTH SUBJECT.—General pathology and theory and practice of medicine. Question 1. Give the differential diagnosis between sarcoma and carcinoma. Question 2. Give in full the different modes by which wounds heal when unaided by surgery. Question 3. Describe a case of tetanus, giving causes, diagnosis, and pathology. EIGHTH SUBJECT.-Surgery. Question 1. Give the process of reducing by manipulation an upward and backward dislocation of the femur, the head of the bone being on the dorsum of the ilium. Question 2. Describe a colles fracture and give treatment for same. Question 3. Give the causes, diagnosis, and sequelæ of chronic synovitis. NINTH SUBJECT.-Medical jurisprudence and hygiene. Question 1. Give in full the symptoms attending a case of poisoning by tincture of aconite, and name the antidotes. Question 2. Name the principal disinfectants; and give in full their therapeutical uses. ASSISTANT EXAMINER EXAMINATION-PATENT OFFICE (Special-Series No. 9). The time allowed for this examination is limited to seven consecutive hours. FIRST SUBJECT.-Physics. NB-Illustrate by diagrams when practicable. Give work in full and plainly indicate the answers.] Question 1. A pendulum beating seconds at the sea level is carried to the top of a mountain. (a) What will be the effect on its rate? (b) Why? (c) In what ratio? Question 2. (a) What is meant in electricity by a relay? (b) Describe a polarized relay. Question 3. What are the various sources of heat? Question 4. A balloon is rising uniformly with a velocity of 10 ft. per second, when astone is dropped from it which reaches the ground in 3 seconds. Find the height of the balloon, (a) when the stone is dropped; (b) when it reaches the ground. Give work in full. Question 5. A weight of 2 lb. moving with a velocity of 20 ft. per second overtakes the of 5 lb. moving with a velocity of 5 ft. per second. Find the common velocity after impact. Give work in full. SECOND SUBJECT.-Technics. X.R.-Illustrate by diagrams when practicable. Give work in full and plainly indicate the answers.] Question 2. Tiles. How and of what are they made, and to what uses applied? the finished rail. Question 5. Sugar and glucose. State the difference between them, and their modes of manufacture. THIRD SUBJECT.-Mathematics and chemistry. X.B.-Illustrate by diagrams when praticable. Give work in full and plainly indicate the answers.] Question 1. Reduce the following complex fraction to its simplest form: X2 Question 2. (a) What is a chemical reaction? (b) What is a chemical re-agent? What is a chemical equation? (d) How is it constructed? (e) Give an example. eet and a diameter of 25 feet. What amount of iron did it require to build it, allowQuestion 3. The stand-pipe on Meridian Hill, Washington, D. C., has a height of 100 10 per cent. for lap, waste, and pivots, the iron being 4-inch thick and weighing b. per cubic inch, both ends of the structure being included? |