| No. "Submitted by direction of the Jamaica Schools Commission for approval of the Governor. ROBERT JOHNSTONE, Secretary Schools Commission." "27th August, 1889. "It is hereby notified, for general information, that the Governor has approved of the following addition to No. 6 of the Civil Service Examination Regulations, published under Government Notice No. 171 of 5th May, 1885 : "The results of the Competitive Examination will be arrived at in the following way: The minimum number of marks in each subject will be deducted from the total number of marks obtained by a Candidate in that subject and the remainder, or the number of marks obtained above the minimum, will be the number of marks in that subject which the Candidate will be allowed to score. It will therefore be of no advantage to a Candidate to take up a subject in which he cannot gain the minimum number of marks." Under an Order made by the Governor on 28th June, 1886, no first appointments will be made to the offices of Sub-Inspector of Constabulary, Landing Waiter, Locker and Gauger, or Assistant Collector of Taxes unless the Candidates have satisfied the School Commissioners on the points detailed in Rule III. of the "Order" above quoted and have passed the preliminary examination referred to in the foregoing Regulation. Candidates for the Constabulary must also satisfy the Governor that they are good riders. The limits of age for the above appointments, in the absence of satisfactory previous Public Service, were at the same time fixed at between 18 and 25 years. Table showing the Results of an Open Competitive Examination held on the 28th and following days of October, 1889. 1 Michelin, W. P. 2 Gauntlett, O. G. 3 Jackson, F. E. 4 Payne, R. H. R. 5 Eves, F. A. D. 6 Phillips, R. H. 7 Cox, E. F. H. Cathcart, W. H. B. 9 Fletcher, R. H. 10 Nicholas, F. L. 11 Mends, A. 12 Shaw, G. S. 13 De Pass, O. L. 14 Windett, F. L. 15 Davis, F. J. W. 16 Banbury, A. J. R. 17 Aarons, M. H. (300 100 400 400 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 3,500 181 92 250 265 146 163 127 115 25 18 Armstrong, W. E. 15 19 Seaton, D. J. 20 O'Meally, A. A. Table showing the Results of an Open Competitive Examination held on the 27th of October and following days in the year 1890. The marks set opposite each candidate's name are those remaining after the minimum in each subject has been subtracted from the total gained by him. Table showing the Results of an Open Competitive Examination held on the 19th and following 15 38 35 862 329 0 85 0 25 27 0 239 204 days of October, 1891. This Candidate whose medical papers were not completed before the Competitive Examination and who was allowed to go up, pending the result of his medical examination, has since been rejected having failed to pass the medical examination required. NOTE. For the result of each of the previous Competitive Examinations see Handbook of 1889-90, page 214. The results of the Examination of 1892 were not known at time of printing. PERSONS in the colony, whether public functionaries or private individuals, who have any representations to make to Government should address them to the Governor of the colony through the Colonial Secretary. The following are the Local Orders on the subject: Governor's Secretary's Office, 7th February, 1866. The Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief requests that all persons having occasion to address His Excellency, or the different Departments of the Government, will do so on foolscap, or large paper, and in official terms. The practice of writing applications or communications on sheets of note paper, and in the form of private notes, is very inconvenient and contrary to official usage. His Excellency also requests that persons will sign their names in distinct characters, as much of his time is lost in endeavouring to decipher illegible signatures. Colonial Secretary's Office, 5th March, 1878. The attention of the Governor having been called to the great number of petitions addressed to His Excellency on matters in which he cannot interfere, and to the preva lent practice of affixing to petitions marks purporting to be those of the persons whose names are attached thereto, but unaccompanied by any authentication, and also to the fact, in some instances, that the names of persons have been subscribed to petitions without their knowledge, or that the petitioners have subsequently represented that their case has been mis-stated in their petitions, His Excellency has been pleased to direct it to be notified, for the information of those concerned, that in future no attention will, as a rule, be paid to any petition treating of a purely private matter, or of a question which either is in course of settlement or has been settled by a court of law, and no petition will be entitled to consideration which does not conform to the following rules as respects the signatures: 1. The marks of persons unable to write their own names must be attested by the signature of some person of position, or of respectable character, as witness to the fact of such marks having been made in his or her presence, and that the person or persons was or were fully aware of the facts and objects of the documents to which the marks are so appended. 2. In the case of the names of persons being written for them in their absence, the name and abode of the persons assuming the power of attaching such signatures must be written at full length, and in the handwriting of such persons. Ministers of Religion, Schoolmasters, and others who are brought in communication with the humbler classes of petitioners are requested, when opportunity offers, to explain this requirement. By Command, E. N. WALKER, Acting Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office, 10th April, 1885. Petitions having been in many instances addressed in an informal manner to the Governor and to the Governor in Council, it is hereby notified, for general information, that petitions can be conveniently addressed to His Excellency on all matters requiring Executive action on the part of the Government; and that it will facilitate the consideration of such petitions if they are enclosed to the Colonial Secretary in the first instance for submission to His Excellency. 2. Petitions to the Governor and Legislative Council may be sent by bodies or by individuals to the Clerk of the Council, or they may be presented by any member of the Council when the Council is in session as required by the rules. By Command, J. ALLWOOD, Acting Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office, 15th August, 1890. The Governor requests that all petitions and letters to His Excellency on questions of an official character, or requiring official action, may be addressed to the Colonial Secretary instead of being addressed to the Governor direct. 1893. HOLIDAYS AT PUBLIC OFFICES AND AT COLONIAL BANK, 1893. TRAVELLING ALLOWANCES TO PUBLIC OFFICERS. THE following Regulations were issued on the 9th November, 1886, by Governor Sir Henry Norman, based on the Report of a Select Committee of the Legislative Council which was adopted by the Council on the 21st October, 1886, in regard to the reimbursement of expenses to officers in the Public Service who are required to travel on duty : i. The amount actually disbursed for hire of conveyance or for keep of man and horse, or for fares by railway, mail coach, or steamer, on an account to be rendered and to be supported by vouchers where practicable. ii. Officers using their own vehicles and horses, instead of hiring or travelling by public conveyance, fifteen shillings a day. iii. In addition to either of the foregoing a daily allowance to cover all personal expenses of 20s. to Heads of Departments and of 15s. to all other officers. iv. In cases, however, in which the duty permits of the officer returning to his home or office on the same day only actual expenses disbursed. All claims are to be accompanied by a daily itinerary of the route travelled. Until further orders the following officers are excepted from the operation of this scale : (a.) Judges and other Officers of Courts who now receive either fixed amounts allowances or rates; (b.) The Inspector of Schools, the Government Surveyor, and the Assistant Government Surveyor, who under the letters of their respective appointments draw a fixed allowance; (c.) District Engineers, to whom a special annual allowance has been made as more suitable, or whose salaries have been fixed to include cost of travelling; (d.) Inspectors of Immigrants who draw one shilling for every mile travelled ; (e.) Assistant Inspectors of Schools who also have a fixed annual allowance as more suitable; (f.) Inspectors of Police who have a daily forage allowance as more suitable and a special allowance when out of their districts; (g.) Officers of the Internal Revenue Department who have limited fixed allowances. PENSIONS AND GRATUITIES. Up to the time of the passing of Law 34 of 1885 (the 16th November, 1885,) all applications from Officers in the Public Service of Jamaica for pensions and gratuities were dealt with under the Imperial Superannuation Acts, the various Treasury Minutes thereunder and certain Regulations drawn up in the year 1879, known as the "Jamaica Pension Regulations." NOTE-For Government Regulations for the guidance of the Civil Servants of the Colony, see page 25 of Handbook of 1882. Provision was made by Law 34 of 1885 for the granting of pensions and gratuities to Officers who were in the Public Service at the time of the passing of that law and who may thereafter retire from the same, as well as for securing and making permanent the pensions which had been previously granted and had appeared annually in the Estimates. No provision was made in the law for any pension or gratuities to persons who may enter the Public Service after the passing of this law.* These cases are now provided for by Law 26 of 1892, under which Public Offices who may elect to contribute 2 ojo from their salaries towards a Pension Fund, are entitled to pension on their retirement. |