CIVII, SERVICE PAPERS. 



to 500, by increments of 15 a year ; five clerks at 100 



ft; one clerk at ", and throe clerk* (Lower 



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10. THK MINT (Open Competition) 

 Is on Tower Hill. The professional officers belonging to the 

 establishment ure many, including assayers, engravers, model- 

 ed chemUta ; but the office staff is small. Salaries 

 Junior ul.-ri. '. bv 10 annually; senior dorks, 



:.. LiOO, by 15 ; chief clerk, 500 to 700, by t 

 In this department there are various situations requiring 

 special technical knowledge on the part of those who occupy 

 thrm, :m.l these appointments are made under the provisions of 

 i' VII. of the Order in Council of June, 170, and, on the 

 recommendation of the head of the department, the person 

 selected by him is not compelled to submit to the ordinary 

 examination, but the Civil Service Commissioners may grant 

 the certificate of qualification upon evidence satisfactory to 

 t hfiu that the candidate possesses the requisite knowledge and 

 aKility, and is duly qualified in respect of age, health, and 

 character. The age of foremen in the operative department 

 must be between 25 and 45, and they have to pans an examina- 

 tion in handwriting and orthography ; arithmetic (including 

 vulgar and decimal fractions), and English composition. Balance 

 mechanics must be between 25 and 50, and, of course, pos- 

 sessed of special technical knowledge. 



11. NATIONAL DEBT OFFICE (Open Competition) 

 Is at 19, Old Jewry. Discharges duties in connection with 

 proposals for reducing the National Debt, and is the office for 

 calculating and arranging life annuities secured upon the 

 guarantee of the Government. There are seven commissioners 

 for the office, but the secretary and comptroller-general is 

 the practical head and manager. In addition to sundry pro- 

 fessional assistants, there is a considerable office staff. One 

 chief clerk, 800 ; 4 principal clerks, 600 to 700 ; 6 assistant 

 principal clerks, 400 to 500 ; 2 senior clerks (redundant), 

 340 to 480 ; 7 assistant clerks (redundant), 200 to WJO ; 

 junior clerk (redundant), 140 to 180 ; 13 clerks (Lower Divi- 

 sion), 80 to 200. 



12. PATENT OFFICE (Open Competition) 

 at 25, Southampton Buildings. Through it pass all docn- 

 ents requiring tho patent of the Great Seal, and in it are 

 orded all specifications of inventions with protective patent 

 hts. The commissioners are the Lord Chancellor, the Master 

 f the Bolls, the Attorney-General, and Solicitor- General. The 

 irk of the commissioners is head of the office. 



13. THE PATMASTER-GENEBAL'S. (Open Competition.) 

 Office at Whitehall. The Paymaster-Guneral pays all autho- 

 rised demands on the public purse. Except for small amounts, 

 no department of the state is allowed itself to pay, in cash, 

 liabilities which it has incurred. Public payments are, as a 

 rule, paid only by the Paymaster-General, upon whom the other 

 departments draw bills at three days. These bills are paid at 

 maturity, either in cash, if under JB50 and the payee so wishes 

 t, or, if for amounts over j50, by cheque on the Bank of 

 n gland. Tho office staff for this duty is necessarily large, and 

 >sts over JE20.000 a year. Establishment as follows : One 

 ief clerk, 800 to 1,000 ; 3 principal clerks, 700 to 800 ; 

 8 first-class clerks 400 to 600 ; 18 second-class clerks, 100 

 375; and 17 clerks (Lower Division), 80 to 200. 



14. THE RECORD OFFICE. (Open Competition for Clerkships.) 



In the Rolls House, Chancery Lane. There are kept the 

 archives of the kingdoms, and all the public papers of import- 

 ance enough to be preserved. The duties of the office are 

 manifold, some of them consisting in ordinary official routine, 

 some in translating, deciphering, transcribing, or arranging 

 documents in the possession of the Keeper of the Records ; 

 these duties are performed by specially qualified attendant 

 keepers. 



The patronage is in the Master of the Rolls, who is Keeper of 

 tin- I .'coords. Candidates for Clerkships are, in addition to the 

 ordinary first-class examination, examined in translations from 

 the Latin and French languages. 



!">. REGisTRAU-OENEHAL.'s OFFICE (Open Competition) 

 I* at Somerset House. Tho duties of the office are to arrange 



and tabulate the information which is collected by district 

 registrar* as to the increase and diminution of the population. 



ItirthH, marriages, and deaths are recorded there, and copies 

 of certificates can be obtained under certain condition*. Th 

 year's statistic* are gathered up into the Registrar-General'* 

 report, which is published annually. 



16. IOIXNCI AND AKT DEPARTMENT. (Open Competition.) 

 Office in Cromwell Road, South Kensington. Carries out the 

 detail of administration of the departments connected with the 

 Museum. Salaries : 1 chief clerk, 500 to 050 ; 9 Brut-class 

 clerks, 100 to 400 ; 2 second-chum clerks. 100 to 250 ; 32 

 clerks (Lower Division), 05 to 250. There are aacistant 

 naturalists, curators, and geologists, bnt special scientific know, 

 lodge being required, additional examination must be passed. 

 The appointments are open to competition. 



GROUP IV. 



Tho departments in this group are those connected with the 

 collection of the revenue rather than with executive administra- 

 tion. The offices we have previously considered are those which 

 direct the spending of the money ; those we shall now describe 

 are very large establishments, which collect immense sums, 

 and necessarily employ very large staffs. Appointments in the 

 Customs and Inland Revenue Departments! are now entirely 

 open to competition ; and in the Post Office the principle is 

 applied to some of the offices. We shall treat of these im- 

 portant departments seriatim, and begin with 



1. TH CUSTOMS. (Open Competition.) 

 It is the business of tho Customs Department to collect at all 

 the ports in the kingdom the taxes on imports which the wisdom 

 of Parliament has chosen to impose, to see that nothing goes 

 from the warehouses in which the articles are lying " in bond," 

 as it is called, without payment of the accustomed duty ; and 

 generally to see that the revenue is not defrauded by smugglers. 

 There are custom-house officers at every port of arrival, but the 

 head-quarters to which all agents report, and where the customs 

 business for the metropolis is carried on, is in Thames Street, 

 London. The office staff, in addition to the regular " officers " 

 of the department, is necessarily largo. Tho department, which 

 is under the control of the Treasury, is under the immediate 

 direction of commissioners who act as a board, and are assisted 

 by a secretary, assistant secretary, and a number of principal 

 officers. The pay of the last-named varies considerably, some 

 having no more than .500, others as much as 1,000 a year 

 These appointments constitute the prizes of the office. Salaries : 

 These vary a little, according as the appointments are in the 

 Secretary's, Solicitor's, or Accountant's offices ; in the Statistical 

 department, in the Long Room, or in tho other offices into 

 which the establishment is subdivided. But it may be stated 

 generally that second-class clerks enter at .80, and may rise to 

 250 ; first-class clerks rise from 100 to 400 ; and principal 

 clerks from 520 to 700. Committee clerks hare from 600 

 ;o 700, by annual increment of 50. Special qualifications 

 are required for clerkships in the Solicitor's office, and in 

 addition to the ordinary subjects the candidate must pass an 

 examination in criminal law, law of evidence, or in law pro- 

 cedure and practice and elements of conveyancing. If to these 

 cgal subjects he can add equity and bankruptcy, so much the 

 jotter, but those subjects are optional. Besides the appoint- 

 ments here mentioned, there are examining officers (100 to 

 300, according to grade); surveyors (100 to 400) ; inspec- 

 tors (350 to 650) ; and a large staff of out-door officers, with 

 salaries from 60 to 100. Candidates for appointment as 

 outdoor officers must be from 11) to 25 years of age, and pass 

 an examination in handwriting, orthography, arithmetic (as far 

 as vulgar and decimal fractions), and English composition. 

 The fee for the examination is 2s. 6d. These officers are 

 eligible for promotion to the higher ranks of the service. 



2. INLAND RETINUE. (Open Competition.) 



Somerset House. This is a very large department, doing 



with regard to internal taxation what the Customs does with 



regard to duties on articles coming from without the kingdom 



t has outposts in all parts of the country, and its head-quarters 



n London. To the central office all reports are made from the 



out stations, and all orders are issued from thence. Generally 



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