Calendar: 1876-1877 Page 641

CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA 641 CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA form of application to be filled up by candidates This Form must be sent so as to be received at the Ojffce of the Civil Service Commission be ore the 1st of February 1877 If General Register Office certificate cannot be obtained the instructions printed on the other side will show what evidence should be supplied If evi dence is already in the hands of the Commissioners strike out "A certificate of my "birth and insert "Evi- "dence is already in the "possession of the Com- "missioners The terms indicated by the marks of quotation must appear in the certifi- cate which must be given after personal examination and bear date not earlier than 1st January 1877 Two testimonials must be sent bearing date not earlier than 1st January 1877 One of them should be given by an intimate ac- quaintance not relative of not less than three or four years' standing the other if the candidate has recently left school should be given by his late schoolmaster or if he has had employment of any kind by his late em- ployer If the candidate has been at any University he should send certificate of good conduct from his College tutor Sir beg to inform you that desire to be candidate at the forthcoming Examination for the Civil Service of India As required by the Regulations transmit herewith- certificate of my birth showing that was bom on the day of 18 and that therefore my age on March 1877 will be above 17 years complete and undei 21 years certificate signed by of my having "no disease constitutional afTection or bodily infirmity unfitting me "for the Civil Service of India Proof of my moral character viz testimonial from testimonial from