TABLE 9.-Showing changes in the Customs Service at ports whose annual receipts are in excess of $500,000, and also the total number of changes at all other ports for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911-Continued. There are approximately 6,443 classified competitive employees in the customs service. Of this number, 108, or a little more than 1 per cent, were removed during the year. The total number of removals from competitive, excepted, and unclassified positions was 406. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910, there were 150 removals from competitive positions and 413 removals from competitive, excepted, and unclassified positions. One hundred and seven appointments to classified competitive positions were made during the year through open competitive examination at the port of New York, as follows: One assistant analyst, 6 classified laborers, 31 clerks, 9 examiners, 1 lumber measurer, 1 messenger, 8 messenger boys, 1 metallurgical chemist and assayer, 19 openers and packers, 1 sampler, 1 stenographer and typewriter, and 28 watchmen. Fifty-four removals from classified competitive positions at the port of New York were made during the year, as follows: Three assistant weighers, 17 clerks, 1 deputy collector, 2 examiners, 3 inspectors, 7 classified laborers, 1 messenger boy, 4 openers and packers, 2 samplers, 2 storekeepers, 2 sugar samplers, and 10 watchmen. During the previous fiscal year there were 345 appointments made through open competitive examination at the port of New York and 120 removals from classified competitive positions. TABLE 10.-Showing changes in the Internal-Revenue Service during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911. General field employees. Abingdon, Va. Albany, N. Y. Atlanta, Ga. Camden, N. Chicago, Ill.. Dubuque, Iowa.. TABLE 11.-Showing separations from classified competitive positions, by branches of the service and by fiscal years, from 1904 to 1911, inclusive.1 862 153,093 2,514 9,750 1,079 171, 807 3,698 13,934 1,083 184, 178 Total... 3,508 15, 289 1,254 196, 918 2,888 10,829 1,255 206, 643 2,875 11,153 1, 453 234, 940 Total.. 66,994 21,672 46, 417 4,945 73, 034 5,842 70, 942 1,164 4,852 546 3,533 501 4,698 7,808 109 6, 612 3, 108 14,308 1,555 222, 278 3, 280 14, 179 1,577 228, 584 37, 722 119, 528 14,229 171, 479 1 For separations prior to 1904, see preceding reports. 2 Includes all branches of the classified service other than those specifically mentioned. 474 7,093 207 115 97 83 130 52 619 85 9 Resigned. Died. NW 8 Competitive posi tions at end of fiscal year. Removed. 3, 428 759 128, 155 9,472 55, 628 1,534 3,623 2,083 TABLE 12.-Showing number of positions, by status, on July 1, 1910, additions by appointments, etc., and subtractions by separations, etc., during the fiscal year, and number of positions on June 30, 1911. 1 137 positions in the Government Hospital for the Insane and 75 in the Freedmen's Hospital, under miscellaneous, have been transferred from the unclassified to the classified columns, as they are now subject to registration tests under the rules. "Most of the unclassified appointments and separations were of persons appointed under the Thirteenth Census act, outside of the provisions of the civil service act and rules. |