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APPENDIX.

EAST INDIA COLLEGE.

Visitor.

The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London.

Principal.

The Rev. Charles Webb Le Bas, A.M.

Dean.

The Rev. James Amiraux Jeremie, A.M.

Registrar.

The Rev. Frederic Smith, A.M.
PROFESSORS:

Classics........

Mathematics.

European Department.

The Rev. J. A. Jeremie, A.M.
The Rev. J. W. Lucas Heaviside, A.M.
The Rev. Fred. Smith, A.M.

History and Political? The Rev. Richard Jones, A.M.

Economy

Law

Wm. Empson, Esq., A.M., F.R.S. I. ORIENTAL DEPARTMENT:

Visitor.

H. H. Wilson, Esq., A.M., F.R.S.

Professors.

Hindee, Hindustani and Mahratta, Vernon Schalch, Esq.
Arabic and Persian..... Meerza Mohammad Ibraheem.
Sanscrit and Teloogoo
Francis Johnson, Esq.

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NOMINATION OF STUDENTS.

Regulations and Preparatory Instructions.-No candidate for the College can be nominated thereto, whose age is less than sixteen, or above twenty-one years; and no person who has been dismissed from the Army or Navy, or expelled from any place of education, will be nominated to the College.

The parents or guardian of every candidate for the College, will be required to address the following letter to the nominating director:

SIR,-I beg to assure you, on my honour, that my

to whom you have been so good as to give a nomination to the College, has not been dismissed from the Army or the Navy, and that he never has been expelled from any place of education. I have the honour to be," &c.

Candidates for the College must produce the undermentioned documents, previously to their being nominated as students.

An extract from the parish register of their birth or baptism, properly signed by the minister, churchwarden, or elders; and in addition thereto

A certificate, agreeably to the following form, signed by the parent, guardian, or near relation.

"I do hereby certify that the foregoing extract from the register of baptisms of the parish of in the county of contains the date of the birth of my, who is the bearer of this, and presented for a nomination as a student at the East India College, by Esq.; and, I do further declare, that I received the said presentation for my gratuitously, and that no money or other valuable consideration has been or is to be paid, either directly or indirectly, for the same, and that I will not pay or cause to be paid, either by myself, by my or by the hands of any other person, any pecuniary or valuable consideration whatsoever, to any person or persons who have interested themselves in procuring the said presentation for my from the director above-mentioned.

Witness my hand, this -day of our Lord

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In the event of no parish register existing or to be found, a declaration of such circumstance is to be made before a magistrate to the following effect, viz. :

"I, presented as a student for the East India College bydo declare, that I have caused search to be made for a parish register, whereby to ascertain my age, but am unable to produce the same, there being none to be found; and further, I declare, that from the information of my parents (and other relations), which information I verily believe to be true, that I was born in the parish of --, in the county of in the year and that I am

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not at this time under the age of sixteen, or above twenty

one years.

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The parent, guardian, or near relation, must then add his certificate as to the truth of the declaration, which must be similar to that ordered to be annexed to the extract from the parish register.

The above-mentioned certificate (and declaration, in cases where a declaration shall be required) are to be annexed to the petition to be written by the candidate, and they are to sign a declaration thereon, that they have read these printed instructions. The same declaration is to be signed by the parent, guardian, or near relation of the candidates respectively.

Candidates will be interrogated in an open Committee as to their character, connexions, and qualifications, conformably to the General Court's resolution of the 6th July, 1809. The nature of this interrogation may be known, on application to the Clerk of the College department. And the following rules and regulations are to be observed with respect to the examination of candidates :

Each candidate shall produce testimonials of good moral conduct, under the hand of the principal or superior authority of the College or public institution in which he may have been educated, or under the hand of the private instructor to whose care he may have been confided; and the said testimonials shall have reference to his conduct during the two years immediately preceding his presentation for ad

mission.

Each candidate shall be examined in the four gospels of the Greek Testament, and shall not be deemed duly qualified for admission to Haileybury College, unless he be found to possess a competent knowledge thereof; nor unless he be able to render into English some portion of the works of one of the following Greek authors:- Homer, Herodotus, Xenophon, Thucydides, Sophocles, and Euripides; nor unless he can render into English some portion of the works of one of the following Latin authors:- Livy, Terence, Cicero, Tacitus, Virgil, and Horace; and this part of the examination will include questions in ancient history, geography, and philosophy.

Each candidate shall also be examined in modern history and geography, and in the elements of mathematical science, including the common rules of arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, and the first four books of Euclid. He shall also be examined in moral philosophy, and in the

evidences of the Christian religion as set forth in the works of Paley.

It is, however, to be understood, that superior attainments in one of the departments of literature or science, comprised in the foregoing plan of examination, shall at the discretion of the examiners, be considered to compensate for comparative deficiency in other qualifications; and also, that the examination shall be so conducted as to give to each candidate reasonable time to prepare himself for the said examination.

The following recommendations have been submitted to the examiners, for the information and guidance of tutors preparing candidates for this examination :

FIRST.-Testimonials.-From the extreme importance of these testimonials, it is desirable that they should state the moral conduct of candidates as explicitly as possible; and it is therefore recommended, that they should include the following particulars :

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1. The exact space of time during which the party giving the testimonial has known the candidate.

2. Whether he has known him personally, or had good opportunities of becoming acquainted with his conduct.

3. In what capacity he has known him, i. e., as member of a college, as pupil in a public institution or school,—as a private pupil, or otherwise, as the case may be.

4. That during the time specified, the candidate has conducted himself with satisfactory propriety,-that he has been orderly in his behaviour, attentive to regulations, and diligent in application to his studies,-that he has not been known to be guilty of any action or habit unworthy of a man of principle or a gentleman, that he may conscientiously be pronounced to be, in point of moral conduct, well qualified for admission into the East India College, &c. &c., (with any other remarks that may be deemed proper.)

5. The name and description in full, of the party giving the testimonial, and the address," To the examiners appointed by the Board of Commissioners for the affairs of India, to examine candidates for admission into the East India College."

It is desirable, also, that these testimonials should be delivered at the East India House, eight days, at least, before the beginning of the examinations. The examiners will meet there to inspect and decide upon them the day week previous to the examinations-and will thus be enabled to give candidates time to supply, or to account for, any apparent deficiency in their testimonials.

SECOND.-History and Geography -On English History, candidates are recommended to read

The History of England, by Gleig, published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, or any similar work.

On Ancient and Modern Geography.-Ancient and Modern Geography, by the late Dr. Samuel Butler.-Modern Geography, compiled for the use of King's College, London, by A. Arrowsmith.

THIRD.-Greek and Latin Authors.-Candidates are expected to be prepared for examination in the following portions, respectively, of each Greek and Latin author that they may select. ́ ́ ́Of—

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Candidates may select more than one Greek and one Latin author; and, for that purpose, may divide the portions above specified. But they must, in any case, be prepared with such quantities in each language, as shall, collectively, be equivalent to any one of those portions.

A student publicly expelled the College, will not be admitted into the Company's Civil or Military Service in India, or into the Company's Military Seminary.

No person can be appointed a member of the Company's Civil Service, whose age is less than eighteen, or more than twenty-three years, nor until he shall have resided two terms, at least, in the College, and shall have obtained a certificate, signed by the Principal, of his having conformed himself to the statutes and regulations of the College.

On a student's appointment to be a member of the Civil Service after he has left the College, a legal instrument is to be entered into by some one person (to be approved by the Court of Directors) binding himself to pay the sum of £3,000, as liquidated damages, to the Company, for breach of a covenant to be entered into that the student's nomination hath not been in any way bought, or sold, or exchanged for any thing convertible into a pecuniary benefit.

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