TABLE C. (continued), showing for each DEPARTMENT the TOTAL NUMBER of NOMINATIONS in 1859, and the manner in which all such NOMINATIONS have been disposed of. * This certificate was granted on the result of a combined competition, and is referred to also under that head. TABLE D.-Showing the NUMBER and PARTICULARS of COMPETITIONS held in the Year 1859, together with the NUMBER of PERSONS nominated without Competition during the same Time to CLERKSHIPS or similar Positions. For five of these, certificates had not been issued on December 31. + Certificates had not been issued for these candidates on December 31. Not strictly nominees, the appointments having been thrown open to public competition. The number, 391, represents the total number of candidates who, having satisfied the prescribed conditions as to evidence of character, &c., were entered on the list of admitted competitors. |