Calendar: 1885-1886 Page 472

466 CIVIL SERVICE CLASSES Division They are at any time eligible for the open com- petitions for the Higher Division and all other Appointments if between the prescribed limits of age and the upper limit is extended in favour of persons already in the service Second Class Clerkships India Office The limits "of age for these clerkships are 17 and 20 The salaries are 80 90 100 for the first three years rising afterwards by triennial increments of 25 to 250 Outport Clerkships The term Outport is applied to all the Ports of the United Kingdom where there is Customs Establishment excepting London alone The limits of age for Second Class Clerks are 17 and 20 They rise from 70 by annually for Four Years then by 10 to 200 Many Second Class Clerks have special allowances in addition to the above service salary They are eligible for promotion without examination to First Class Clerkships 220 15 400 and Outport Collectorships 200 800 Great changes are being made in the Customs and the examinations for Customs Outport Clerkships are sus- pended III EXCISE APPOINTMENTS MR WALKE Courses of preparation of about 18 weeks' duration begin in January and July and continue until about the middle of May and November respectively The Class meets through- out the course on Tuesdays from to 50 and for six Although the number of Lower Division Clerks promoted to the Highei Division must always bear small proportion to the number not so promoted it is not necessary that they should be an insignificant proportion of the Upper Division On the contrary my Lords look forward to that Division being largely replenished in certain Departments from the best members oi the Lower Division It will probably always be necessary to reserve power of direct appointment to the Upper Division but there are many Departments in which this power need not so far as my Lords can foresee be exercised habitually or even frequently Promotion from the Lower to the Higher Division may therefore fairly be considered as legitimate aspiration for the superior members of the former Treasury Letter dated 19th June 1884