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CONTRACT FOR LIGNUAI VITA,

Department or the Storekeeper General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, sth Harch. 1856.
THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
kid Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY
ttie 18th Instant, at Two o'clock, they will ?)e ready to treat with
each Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplyiog her Maj,.stre
cckyard at Portsmouth with

40 Tons of sr. DOMINGO LIGNUM TILE, of from 4 to iti ins
diameter, and
of WRITE BAHAMA LIGNUNI VITA, of from 34 to 4
ins. diameter.
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A form of the tender may be seen at the said °ince.
No tender will be received after two o'clock on the day of treaty,
Iter will any be noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for
ern duly authorised bt writing.
fiery tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
104 bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for LiKnum
rite!;' and must also be delivered at Som,rset-place, aceompanle
74 letter signed by a responsible person, ant:aging to become bound
With the person tendering in the sum of 2001. for the due performance
Or-the contract.

EAST INDIA lIOU3E, 5111 Malicia, 1335.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the an-
nexed CODE of REGULATIONS for the ADMISSION of
._ANDIDATE-, at the EX k MIN 'kTIONs to ho held for the
fa'POINTX ENT of ASSIST kNT SURGEONS in the SERVICE of
,_ll, EAST 1ND1.3. COXPANY, has ten framed by the Board of
°lntnissioners for the Affairs of Diclia. wider the provisions of the
let 16th and 17th Viet., cap. 95, sec. 38.
646ItLATIONS FOR Tae ADMISSION OP CANDIDATES FOR THE APPOINT-

IitIVF OF AsilSTartr-SUIWZON IN TILE 'qEItVICII OF c.AiT INDIA
CO3mitt T.
411 natural-horn snhjects Of her Majesty between 22 and 2$ years
hstlrNe, and of sound bodily health. may be candidates for aniniAsion
's the service of the East India Company as .4.s.iitant Sur_teoni.
They must subscribe and rend into Dr. So tt, the l'hys:ciun t, the
nOttortrable East India Company, to days before the period fixed for
16h examination, a declaration to the 0, lowing effect :
(Christian and surname at full length), a candidate for em
LIOYMent as an Assistant-Surgeon in Vie ,ervice of th, East Indi
wiliPalay, do hereby declare, that I was years of age on the

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.1 day of last, and that [ labour under noconstitu-
lieltal disease or physical disability that can interfere with the due
Illseharge of the duties of a medical officer ; and I ilso attest my
had tams to proceed on duty to India within three months of reoeiv-
.lll My appointment."
_Tido declaration must be accompanied by the following docti-
luents:—

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, Proof of age, either by extract from the register of the parish
_llWhieh the candidate was born, or by his own declaration pursuant
" the Act 6 and 6 Wm. IV., c 62.
certificate of moral character fro n a magistrate, or a minis-
of the religious denomination to which the candidate belongs,
Who has p•rsonally k,own him for at least two preceding years.
4. A diploma In surgery, or a degree in medicine, provi ,ed an ex-
klaination in surgery be required for such degree, from some body
"IPPetent by law to grant or confer such diploma orcleg• ee.

.4.1 certificate of having attended two courses of lectures, of six
%Oahe each, on the practice of physic. and of having attended for
etz Months the practice and clinical instruction o the i.hysiclans at
Gonie hospital, containing at least, on an average, one hundred in-
ktients ; or of having attended one courts or lectures of six months
Clit the practice of physic, and clinical instruction for twelve months.
G. A certificate of having attended for three mouths the practical
unitrnetion given at one of the public asylums for the treatment of
tile Insane.
G. A certificate of having attended for three months one of the in.
atltutions or wards of an laospital especially devoted to the treat-
kent of ophthalmic disease.
Candidates who Tasty not have been able to attend the practice of
Mk asylum for the insane, or of an ophthalmic hoapitai, for 3 eoliths
previous to their oaring themselves for examination, will not be
'beim:led from examination, but will, if successful in ibtaining re-
tornmendatlon for bppointmelits, be re jai, ed to produce certificates
er having attended such practice durni, the interval between the
tannsination and the tine of proceeding to India.
7. A. certificate of hiving attended a course of lectures on m d-
Wifery, and of having conducte 1 at least :ix lahout s.
G• A. certificate of having acquired a practical k' owledge of cup
Nag. _ _

Candidates may also, at their option, sent In certificates of attend-
Mee at any hospitals, or on any course of teem", s, in addition to the
4boVe. Attendance on a course of military surge y, and the prActi•
hl study of surgleal operations on the dead body, are recommi-nded
The Examination will include the following subjects :-
1. Surgery in all ite•departments.
2. Medicine, including the diseases of women and child,en, The•
%entice, Pharmacy, an 1 Hygiene..
S. Anatomy and Physiology, including Comparative Anatomy.
4. Natural History, including Botany and Zo
The following are the books recommended in—
iftlogy and Comparative Anatomy— •
Ottlines of the Structure of the Animal Kingdom, by Rymer Jones,
Coors Elemsntaire d'llistoire Naturelle, par Mae Edwards.
zetany—

Lindley's School Botany, or
• Lindley's Elements of Botany.
The Examination will be conducted—

1. fly means of written questions and answers.
3. By object examinations and experiments, when the subject ad-
Init. of such tests.
3. riy practical examination pf patients, and by operations on the
"11.4 body.

4. By viva voce examination.
The persons wko shall be pronounced by the examiners to be the
qualified in all respects will oe appointed to fill the requisite
44„_Inber of appointments -as assistant-surgeons in the East India
winspany's Service, and, so far as the requirements of the service
Will permit, they will have the choice of the Pre idency in India to
erhioh they shall he appointed, according to the order of merit in
Which they stand on the list resulting from such examination.
All assistant•surgeens are required t subscribe to the military or
inedical, and medical retiring funds, at the presidencies to which
they nay be respectively appointed, and to the Military Orphan So-
elety also, if appointed to Bengal.
All assistant-surgeons who shall neglect or refuse to proceed to
India under the orders ef the Court of Directors, within three months
torn the date of their appointmeu:, will be ronsidered as having for-
lted it, unless special circumstances shall justify a departure from
thia regulation,
A copy of these regulations, and any further information, may be
ntained on application to the Secretary of the Military Departmeat,
fast India House.
The examinations will take place in the months of January and
IlelY in each year ; and due notice will be given by putslic adver-
*gement of the days appointed, and of the probaiele number of can-
didates to be selected.
The Pxaminers for Assistant Surgeons in the Honourabie East
India Company's Service, having received many inqui ies as to the
!Nest and extent of the Examination in Comparative Anatomy,
eAselogy, and Botany, have considered it desire-de to announce that
their objects are,—
i• To ascertain who of the Candidates have devoted especial atten
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'MI to any of these sciences, and are hence qual fled to undertake
chnies requiring a knowledge of them, as well as the general duties
of their profession. Proficiency in these sciences will, in classifying
was Candidates by merit, be entitled to great consideration.
2. To encourage all Candidates to acquire an elementary know-
le
dge of the structure and affinities of the principal natural families
*r Animals and of Plants, with the general pan upon which these
are constructed, and the functions and relations of their most imper-
sant organs.
a. To promote the study of Natural History as a most important
Idihnet or preliminary to a liberal medical education; that of Com-
Asrative Anatomy, Zoology, or Botany, if po,perly cultivated, by
Leans of specimens, for even a short period, being eminently calcu-
lated to develope habits of close observation, and to strengthen tho.,e
Dealers of reasoning upon observed facts, which must be habitually
exercised by medical men everywhere, but which must I,e exercised
With. the greatest energy and promptitude by those who prat' se in a
tropical inmate, and who are often thrown wholly upon their own
rt goer cep.
The itcneral examination in thesescien ies will be e'ementary, an'
Will embrace a very limited range of technical terms .‘t he written
eXiuninatlon a considerable number of questions will he put, with
the view of allowing each Candidate to select such slut leen' as he has
Ztended to, and, thereby, of enabling the Examin srs ascertal..
S PSI ticular departments of science in which the vernal examine-
non should be conducted.
With t hose Candidates who have attained proficiency in any branch
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these sciences, the verbal examination will be pursued in the
march selected.so as to ascertain the full extent of their knowledge.
_ It is note announced that the next examination will be -held-at
hin hen eon the 14th July next, and t-ucceeding days, and that the
bable number of vacancies in the medical establiehment of the
India Company, to be then filled np, will be thirty.
*WAS C. 31rAYLLaL, Secretary.

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Octo,ar. 23, 1855.