The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-07 00:00:00

TNDIA OFFI C E, DECEMBER 10, 1868.
1 By order of the SECRETARY of STATE for
INDIA in Council.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that it is intended to
send to India annually a certain number of YOUNG
MEN, trained and educated for ultimate employment in
the higher branches of the Department for the conserva-
tion and management of the Forests under the Govern-
ment of India.
Eight young men will be selected in February next to
go to India at the end of 1871.
The salary will be at first £3OO a year, and the salaries
of the appointments in the three Presidencies range be-
tween that sum and £1,900 a year. Promotions will de-
pend upon efficiency, and the occurrence of vacancies in
the higher grades.
Applicants must be British subjects above 17 and under
25 years of age.
As active habits and a strong constitution are most im-
portant, candidates will have to undergo a strict medical
examination.

.....
They must send to the Revenue Department of the
India Office, on or before the Bth of January, 1869, a
statement of their names and parentage, with a certificate
of birth, and of being posssesed of a competent knowledge
of the following subjects, and they must be prepared o
undergo an examination in them :-
1, English writing from dictation and English com-
position.
2. Arithmetic in all its branches.

equations, ratios and proportions, logarithms, arithmetical
and geometrical progression.
3. Algebra, elementary principles, simple and quadratic
4. Geometry (Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, and Gth books of Euclid)
and plane trigonometry.
5. Free hand and plan drawing.
G. A good colloquial knowledge of either French
_ or
Gorman, with the facility to read and translate the works
i
of some classical writer in the language.
A preference wiil be given to those candidates who
obtain a certain proficiency in,—
1. Surveying and land measuring.
2. The elements of any of the following natural
sciences :
Mechanical and natural philosophy.
Chemistry.
Botany.
Geology.
If selected,
they will ba further required to go through
a course of training and instruction in Forestry and cog-
nate sciences for two years and a half, in France or Ger-
hmany, previous to their departure for I
th ndia, and t
ea cbe Sec-
retary of State will contribute £5O at e end of h half
year towards the expenses of their training, in the case of
such candidates as are favourably reported on by their in-
structors. In addition to this, if it should be found prac-
ticable, the young
men will be required to place 'them-
selves under an approved forester in Scotland for a few
months before they go out to India.
More detailed information as to these appointments may
be had on application to the Under Secretary of State for
India, India Office Westminster.
(Signed) HERMAN MERIVALE.

DOG LICENSES.—CAUTION.
ruHE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RB-
I_ VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES
granted in the year 1868 expired on the 31st December
last, and every person keeping a do in the current year is
required forthwith to take out a new License. The duty payable for each dog kept is Five Shillings.
The penalty for keeping a dog withuut License is Five
Pounds.

A License is not transferable from one person to
another.
A License may be obtained by the owner giving his
dogname a d
n address, and the name of the place where the
is kept, on application at
The Office of the Collector of Inlandl
Revenue, In the neigh-
The Office of the Distributor of Stamps }
bourhood of the
Or
applicant's re-
A Money Order Post Office. sidence.
Licenses will also be granted by the several Supervisors
of Inland Revenue.
Persons residing at a distance from any of the above
offices, by transmitting with their alication Inland
pp
Revenue (Receipt) or Postage Stamps for the r
amount of duty, to the Collector of Inland Revenue fpeor
the District, will receive a license in return by post.
COBBETT, Secretary.
Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London,
Ist January, 1869.