APPENDIX J. QUESTIONS USED IN EXAMINATIONS HELD During the Year 1897. EXAMINATION FOR COURT CRIER. Held at Syracuse, January 14, 1897. Directions: One of the examiners will dictate supposed orders of which the candidate is required to write down the substance. The order will be read once only and the mark will be given for substance, not for the exact form of the order. 1. Take this letter to No. 247 Clinton street, then go to the mayor's office and leave word that Judge Smith will be there Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. 2. The trial term of this court is adjourned without day and the special term is adjourned to the Supreme Court chambers in the city of Watertown at 9 o'clock in the morning on Saturday next. 3. All jurors not on this panel are excused until Monday morning at 10 o'clock. The cases remaining on the calendar will be called at that time. Sheet 3.-Arithmetic. 1. Express in words 507,006.82. 2. Multiply 879 by 304 and divide the product by 76. 3. If a barrel of flour weighs 196 lbs. what will be the cost of 5,880 lbs. at $5.25 per barrel? 4. A court crier receives $50 per month; he spends $12 per month for board and $18 per month for other expenses; how long will it take him to save $500? 5. Supposing the distance from Albany to Buffalo to be 300 miles; how many hours will it take a train to make the run at the rate of 2 miles in 3 minutes? Sheet 4.-Plain Copy. Directions: Copy precisely the following, punctuating and capitalizing as in the copy. After the termination of three months from the passage of this act no officer or clerk shall be appointed, and no person shall be admitted to or be promoted in either of the said classes now existing or that may be arranged hereunder pursuant to said rules, until he has passed the examination, or is shown to be exempted from such examination, in conformity with such regulations. Such regulations hereinafter prescribed and established, and any subsequent modification thereof, shall take effect upon the approval of the New York Civil Service Commission. Officers elected by the people, and the subordinates of any such officer, for whose errors or violation of duty said officer is financially responsible shall not be subject to the regulations prescribed pursuant to this section, nor shall any regulations contravene an existing statute relating to entrance to said service. Sheet 5.-Oral examination. Each candidate was examined orally as to his experience, general intelligence and ability to execute orders. N. B.-Use of capitals, punctuation and all mistakes and omissions will be taken into consideration in marking this paper. Directions: One of the examiners will dictate an exercies which the candidate is required to take down on this sheet verbatim. The passage will first be read for information and then dictated in phrases of five or six words at the rate of about twenty words per minute. Do not sign you name. The Legislature shall divide the State into four judicial departments. The first department shall consist of the county of New York; the others shall be bounded by county lines, and be compact and equal in population as nearly as may be. Once every ten years the Legislature may alter the judicial departments, but without increasing the number thereof. There shall be an Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, consisting of seven justices in the first department, and of five justices in each of the other departments. In each department four shall constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of three shall be neces sary to a decision. No more than five justices shall sit in any case. Sheet 3.-Verbal orders. Directions: One of the examiners will dictate supposed orders of which the candidate is required to write down the substance. The order will be read once only and the mark will be given for substance, not for the exact form of the order. 1. Take this package to No. 349 Grand street and then go to the county clerk's office and ask Mr. Smith for the papers I left there Monday. 2. When Mr. Jones returns tell him that Judge Brown will meet him at the Twenty-third street ferry at 3 o'clock, with his carriage and a police officer. 3. Go to the nearest plumbers and get a man to fix the waterpipes on the first floor; then have the judges' rooms cleaned and ready to occupy by to-morrow morning. 1. Add the following, placing the sum at the bottom: 179,543,862,190,257 84,597,643,985 675,389,763,271 9,487,645,387 4,561,387,654,978 2. Multiply 9,287 by 5,036. (Give work in full.) 3. Divide 5,868,150 by 725. (Give work in full.) 4. If you can earn 18 cents an hour and work nine hours a day, how much will you earn in 312 days? (Give work in full.) 5. In a certain city 5,278 persons were arrested during the year, of these 2,010 were discharged, 19 died, 87 were sent to hospitals, 13 to insane asylums and the rest were sentenced. How many were sentenced? (Give work in full.) 34. complaint 10. character, 13. spacious 16. mysterious 19. enthusiast 20. casual 21. gradually, 22. dissipate 23. prevalence 24. collateral 25. treatise 36. replication 40. jurisdiction 42. execution 43. verification 45. summons 47. injunction 48. intestate 49. administrator 50. account |