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2 EXAMINATIONS.
3 211. Lastly, the system of Examination of Civil Officers prescribed
4 for other divisiogs of the Presidency has been introduced into the .
5 Punjab, All Assistants and Extra Assistants, before they can be pro-
6 moted to the charge of a district, or such like independent Office, must
7 undergo Examination both for a lower and a higher standard. The
8 Examinations are held once a year at the Head Quarters of each Com-
9 missionership. The papers are referred for final decision to a Central Com-
10 mittee at Lahore. The candidate is examined not only in the theory of
11 Administration, the principles of L&®, and the reading and writing of
12 the Court language, but also in the practical part of his profession ; he —
13 is exercised in the decision of cases, in the disposal of reports, in the
14 conducting of conversation, in the popular dialect, and in decyphering
15 its rude characters. Two or three years of study and practice are usually |
16 required in order to enable a candidate to qualify himself for the higher
17 standard. Many successful Examinations have been passed, and the -
18 system undouktedly tends to raise the average of official qualification,
19 and to secure a really efficient training for the members of the public
20 service.
21 CONCLUSION,
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23 212. The Third Punjab Report is now concluded, The several Sections
24 will have shown what has been done in each Department. But as
25 the subjects are varied, it were well to summarize,
26 by way of recapitulation, the results which have
27 been obtained by this Administration during seven years, and which
28 have been set-forth in three Reports extending from May 1849 to May
29 1856, In this epitome the serial order, as now prescribed by the Supreme
30 Government, will be preserved.
31 213. It is therefore submitted—
32 lst. That Civil justice has been rendered speedy, cheap and easy, in
33 a high degree; that Small Cause Courts have been established all over
34 the country ; that brief and intelligible principles of law have been cir-
35 culated, and a simple precedure has been introduced.
36 2nd. That the Criminal Administration has extinguished several of
37 the worst-crimes; has -much repressed all kinds of heinous crime ; has
38 Resumé of results,
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