Candidates for clerkships in the Secretary's Office, London, must pass an examination on the following subjects, viz.
Candidates for clerkships in London must be under twenty-four years of age but not under seventeen.
Candidates for general clerkships in the Metropolitan Offices are examined in[210]-- 1.
After filling several clerkships in the Irish government, Spenser received a grant of the castle and estate of Kilcolman, a part of the forfeited lands of the rebel Earl of Desmond.
In 1857, a near approach was made to open competition, in the case of four clerkshipsawarded by the competing examination in the Commissioners' own establishment.
Nor were the petty clerkships the only positions which brought odium upon their incumbents.
Richmond had brought matters to a crisis by resigning their clerkships to go into the army, because they could not support life on their salaries of nine thousand dollars a year.
The experiment of placing women in government clerkships proved eminently successful, and grew to be extremely popular under the Confederate government.
The examination for 1st class clerkships is held concurrently with that of the civil service of India and Eastern cadetships in the colonial service.
Close economic conditions in the cities force many thousands of girls to leave home and seek clerkships at a wage so low as indirectly to undermine the health and more directly to impair the morals.
There are a great many applications forclerkships in the departments by teachers who have not followed their pupils to the army.
This cannot be true; for I know a Secretary who has just appointed two of his cousins to the best clerkships in the department--both of conscript age.
Several young men from that vicinity have shouldered their pens and are applying for clerkships in the departments.
Women hold several important clerkships in the State Capitol and are found as stenographers, etc.
For twenty-five years, however, they have held clerkships in both branches of the General Assembly.
Clerkships under Civil Service rules are supposed to pay the same to men and women, but the latter rarely secure the better-paid ones.
Clerkships in the Legislature and in the executive offices are frequently given to women.
They secured all the "spoils," form petty clerkships worth 100 pounds a year up to places worth thousands.
The proportion from Oxford and Cambridge in the Class I clerkshipsalone would be somewhat larger still.
But as the number of second division clerks appointed each year is about three hundred, and the number promoted to first-class clerkships is on the average only about four, the chance of reaching that grade is very small.
From the later reports of the Civil Service Commissioners it would appear that the proportion of first-class clerkships filled by promotion does not increase.
Except to clerkships of first class, all promotions from class to class, whether in the Major or Minor Establishments, are governed by seniority, combined with full competency and good character.
Two offices, which were by no means insignificant, those of the chief clerkships of government and of justice, respectively, had been sold formerly for four thousand pesos each.
Instead of selling the minor clerkships of the exchequer, the governor had given them to his friends.
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