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8. A tailor cuts 9 2/14 yards of cloth from a piece measuring 44 4/14 yards. How many vests, each requiring 1 1/7 yards, can he make with the remainder?

9. Divide $4,832 among three persons in proportion to their ages, which are respectively, 20 years, 24 years, 26 years.

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LETTER-WRITING.

Date, December 15, 1897.

Write a letter of 250 words or more to some fictitious friend, giving your opinion on the following question: Should the District Judges and the City Magistrates alike be elected by the people, or should they alike be appointed by the Mayor?

N. B. (1) In rating this letter, consideration will be given, not to the merit of the opinions expressed, but to the expression of these opinions, grammar, composition, etc.

N. B. (2) THIS LETTER IS TO BE SIGNED WITH YOUR NUMBER, not your name.

COURTS AND

ASSISTANT CLERK, MAGISTRATES' COURTS
COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS.

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Political Economy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects: first, to

supply a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or, more properly, to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and, secondly, to supply the State or Commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public services. It proposes to enrich both the people and the sovereign.

The different progress of opulence in different ages and nations has given occasion to two different systems of political economy, with regard to enriching the people. The one may be called the system of commerce, the other that of agriculture.

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2. What number must be added to 238,541 to make a million? 3. A dealer in horses bought 40 horses at $125 a piece, and sold 15 of them at $105 each. At what price must he sell the others in order to clear $500 by the transaction?

4. Simplify:

2 1/2-3 1/4-4 1/3-5 1/6+ 252 1/12.

5. A man spends 1/3 of his income for food, 1/8 in clothing and lodging, 1/10 in other expenses, and saves at the end of the year $318. What was his income?

6. An icehouse contained 1,000 tons of ice. The owner sold at different times 242.75 tons, 87,165 tons, and 166.075 tons. He then found he had left 490.0425 tons. How much had been lost by melting?

7. 3/4 of 128 is 5% of what number?

No.

LETTER-WRITING.

Date, October 6, 1897.

Write a letter of 250 words or more, properly dated and addressed to the Mayor of New York, giving your opinion as to the advisability of giving to the City the ownership and control of all lines of cars for the carrying of passengers through the public

streets.

N. B. (1) THIS LETTER IS TO BE SIGNED WITH THE CANDIDATE'S NUMBER, not his name.

N. B. (2) — In rating this paper, consideration will be given, not to the merit of the opinions expressed, but to the expression of these opinions, grammar, composition, etc.

No.

SPECIAL

Date, October 6, 1897.

1. Define fully and precisely (a) Crime; (b) Felony; (c) Misdemeanor; (d) principal (both in felonies and misdemeanor); (e)

accessory (both in felonies and misdemeanor); (f) vagrant; (g) disorderly conduct.

2. What, if any, limitation is there to the power of the Legislature to declare what shall amount to a crime?

3. Up to what age is a child (a) incapable of committing a crime? (b) presumed to be incapable of committing a crime? In the case (b), upon whom rests the burden of proof as to capability or incapability?

4. Upon whom rests the burden of proof as to irresponsibility, e. g., of idiots or lunatics?

5. State how many degrees of assault there are, and give, concisely, a definition of what constitutes assault in each degree.

6. Name the different kinds of homicide, and define the different degrees of each where they are so separated.

7. (a) To whom must a warrant of arrest be directed, and by whom executed? (b) Define the answer to the above question.

8. Who may make an arrest, and when may arrests be made by those authorized to make them?

9. Having reference to Magistrates only, what offenses are not bailable, and what offenses, before conviction, are bailable (a) as a matter of right? (b) as a matter of discretion?

10. State, briefly, the procedure from the time a prisoner is brought before the Magistrate until he is either held or discharged.

FIREMAN.

TEST OF MEMORY.

(Orally communicated.)

Date, October 26, 1897.

Someone has been tampering with the fire-alarm box at the corner of Bleecker street and Broadway. Go there and make a thorough investigation; if necessary, make a report at the nearest police station, and then return here and report.

No.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Date, October 26, 1897.

1. Rule 21 (Selections from Regulations of Fire Department) reads as follows:

"He must not be a delegate or representative to, or a member of, any political or partisan convention whose purpose is the nomination of a candidate for any political office." What, in your opinion, is the reason for this rule?

2. Make out, in accordance with the rules, an application for transfer from one company to another.

3. Suppose a pot of boiling fat overturns in the kitchen of a restaurant, setting fire to the floor. How would you undertake to put out the fire, before turning in an alarm, supposing the usual kitchen articles and supplies were within reach?

4. State precisely what you would do in case a private citizen offered you some money in return for conduct on your part which was of benefit to him.

5. If, in your opinion, you ought to make a communication to the Commissioners in the case of question No. 4, state how you would address it, and how it would be sent to the Commissioners.

6. Give the substance of the two rules which refer to smoking. 7. Why is it improper for a member of the uniformed force to solicit the influence of any person with the Commissioners to effect his transfer? What is the penalty for violating the rule on this subject?

No.

CITY INFORMATION.

Date, October 26, 1897.

1. Location of: Fire Department headquarters; Trinity Church; Harlem Opera House; Manhattan Hotel; Pennsylvania Railroad ferries; St. Luke's Hospital; Washington Bridge; Riverside Park; Lenox Library; Washington Market.

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