2.  Fill promptly all the blanks in this sheet.  Any omission may lead to the rejection of your papers.

3.  Write all answers and exercises in ink.

4.  Write your name on no other sheet but this.

Place this sheet in the envelope.  Write your number on the envelope and seal the same.

DECLARATION.

I declare upon my honour as follows: 

1.  My true and full name is (if female, please say whether Mrs. or Miss)

2.  Since my application was made I have been living at (give all the places)

3.  My post-office address in full is

4.  If examined within twelve months for the civil service—­for any post-office, custom-house, or Department at Washington—­state the time, place, and result.

5.  If you have ever been in the civil service, state where and in what position, and when you left it and the reasons therefor.

6.  Are you now under enlistment in the army or navy?

7.  If you have been in the military or naval service of the United States, state which, and whether you were honourably discharged, when, and for what cause.

8.  Since my application no change has occurred in my health or physical capacity except the following: 

9.  I was born at ——­, on the ——­ day of ——­, 188.

10.  My present business or employment is

11.  I swore to my application for this examination as near as I can remember at (town or city of) ——­, on the ——­ day of ——­, 188.

All the above statements are true, to the best of my knowledge and belief.

(Signature in usual form.)------------

Dated at the city of ——­, State of ——­, this ——­ day of ——­, 188_.

FIRST SUBJECT.

Question 1. One of the examiners will distinctly read (at a rate reasonable for copying) fifteen lines from the Civil-Service Law or Rules, and each applicant will copy the same below from the reading as it proceeds.

Question 2. Write below at length the names of fifteen States and fifteen cities of the Union.

Question 3.  Copy the following precisely: 

“And in my opinion, sir, this principle of claiming monopoly of office by the right of conquest, unless the public shall effectually rebuke and restrain it, will effectually change the character of our Government.  It elevates party above country; it forgets the common weal in the pursuit of personal emolument; it tends to form, it does form, we see that it has formed, a political combination, united by no common principles or opinions among its members, either upon the powers of the Government or the true policy of the country, but held together simply as an association, under the charm of a popular head, seeking to maintain possession of the Government by a vigorous exercise of its patronage, and for this purpose agitating and alarming and distressing social life by the exercise of a tyrannical party proscription.  Sir, if this course of things cannot be checked, good men will grow tired of the exercise of political privileges.  They will see that such elections are but a mere selfish contest for office, and they will abandon the Government to the scramble of the bold, the daring, and the desperate.”—­Daniel Webster on Civil Service, in 1832.