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Page 60 - qualifying date" should be changed — At present -there is only one qualifying date, namely the 1st day of January of the year in which the electoral roll is prepared or revised. This means that a citizen of India who is not less than 21 years of age on the 1st of January of the year in which the electoral roll for a constituency is prepared or revised is entitled to be registered in that electoral roll. The requirement as to qualifying date is a constitutional requirement directly flowing from...
Page 21 - The sum of the squares of the four sides of any quadrilateral is equal to the sum of the squares of the diagonals increased by four times the square of the line joining the mid-points of the diagonals.
Page 147 - By it the Militia of Canada is declared to consist of all the male inhabitants of Canada of the age of 18 years or upwards and under 60, not exempted or disqualified by law, this population being divided into four classes, as follows : The first class comprises those aged 18 or upwards and underSO, being unmarried or widowers without children.
Page 47 - The subjects of the further examination, and the maximum number of marks obtainable for each subject, will be as follows : — Marks.
Page 32 - A certificate of good moral character, signed by the tutors or heads of the Schools or Colleges at which he has received his education for the four years immediately preceding the date of application, or some other satisfactory proof of good moral character.
Page 32 - The limits of age for admission to the academy will be from 16 to 18. Candidates must be within those limits of age on the 1st of July for the summer examination and on the 1st of December for the winter examination. 3. Examinations. — The examinations will be held half-yearly, and will commence in June and November; due notice will be given of the dates of the examinations, and every candidate for those examinations must send to the military secretary, on a date not later than the 1st of May or...
Page 46 - The Royal Military College is maintained for the purpose of affording a special military education to candidates for commissions in the cavalry and infantry.
Page 56 - ... the manufactories of the state ; the engineers of the powder and saltpeter service; the mining engineers, and the telegraphic lines; also for such other public services as require a profound knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and chemical sciences. Admittance to the school is exclusively by competitive examination. After a two years...
Page 47 - The elementary parts of Statics; namely, the equilibrium of forces acting in one plane and of parallel forces, the centre of gravity, the mechanical powers, friction. The elementary parts of Dynamics ; namely, uniform, uniformly accelerated, and uniform circular motion, falling bodies and projectiles in vacuo, cycloidal oscillations, collisions, work. The first, second, and third sections of Newton's Principia ; the propositions to be proved by Newton's methods.
Page 46 - ... to bring with him the articles, of clothing of which he will receive notice, and which must afterwards be kept up at his own expense. He...