TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Report to the President:

Introduction....

Extent of the civil service...

Growth of the classified service..

By presidential action ...

By operation of act of Congress.

By automatic inclusion.....

Exceptions from examinations.

Examinations and appointments..

Examinations with unusual requirements..

Census examinations....

second class post offices..

Examinations for fourth-class postmasters..

Classification of assistant postmasters and of clerks in certain first and

Temporary appointments..

The district system....

The apportionment..

Members of a family in the service...

Political activity of officeholders and political assessments

Status of mechanics at navy yards....

Reclassification of salaries..

Promotions...

Department and classification of certain presidential offices..

Inclusion in the competitive service of positions under the Post Office

The merit system in the Diplomatic and Consular services.

The widening application of the merit system...

National assembly of civil-service commissions.

Opinions of the Attorney General...

Report of the chief examiner..

APPENDIX.

Civil-service act..

Statutes affecting the classified service..

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Civil-service rules, with notes by the commission..

Schedule A. Classified positions excepted from examination...............

Schedule B. Classified positions which may be filled on noncompetitive

examination....

Orders excepting persons named from the requirements of the rules..

Investigations of alleged violations of the law and rules:

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Political assessments and political activity.........

117

Frauds and other irregularities in connection with examinations..

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Digest of opinions of the Attorney General....

130

Extracts from the President's message, reports of heads of departments, and

Recent progress of the merit system in States and cities..

158

Examinations containing ancient and modern languages..

162

List of references to history of the merit system...

164

Some changes in practice and procedure of the commission..

168

Positions in the competitive classified service on Nov. 1, 1910, paying $3,500

or more, and how held..

169

Classification of the executive civil service....

170

Regulations governing certain branches of the service outside of Washington..

Publications of the commission..

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Table 1. Showing by State of examination or by service for which examined,

the number of examinations held for entrance to the classified

service (except the Post Office, Customs, and Internal-Revenue.

Services), and for the Philippine Service, the number of competi-

tors, the number that passed and the number that failed, during

the year ended June 30, 1910....

Table 2. Showing, by legal residence and position or service for which ex-

amined, the number of persons examined for entrance to the

classified service (except the Post Office, Customs, and Internal-

Revenue Services), the number that passed and the number that

failed, during the year ended June 30, 1910 ...

Table 3. Showing the number of persons examined for entrance to the Customs

Service, the number that passed, and the number that failed, during

the year ended June 30, 1910......

Table 4. Showing the number of persons examined for entrance to the Internal-

Revenue Service, the number that passed, and the number that

failed, during the year ended June 30, 1910..

Table 5. Showing the number of persons examined for entrance to the Post

Office Service, the number that passed, and the number that failed,

during the year ended June 30, 1910....

Table 6. Showing the number of persons examined for transfer, promotion, or

reinstatement, the number that passed, and the number that failed,

during the year ended June 30, 1910...

Table 7. Showing the number of examinations of each kind, the number of

persons examined, the number that passed, the per cent that

passed, and the number appointed, during the year ended June 30,

1910.....

Table 8. Showing the apportionment of appointments in the Departmental

Service at Washington, D. C., from July 16, 1883, to June 30, 1910.

Table 9. Showing the number of appointments made from the different kinds

of educational examinations to the Departmental Service, exclusive

of the Railway Mail and Indian services, from July 16, 1883, to

June 30, 1901, and in each subsequent year to June 30, 1910......

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2. Changes in the Service.

Table 10. Showing changes in the executive civil service during the year ended

June 30, 1910...

Table 11. Showing changes in the substitute force of the Railway Mail Service

during the year ended June 30, 1910....

Table 12. Showing changes for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910, in the post

offices of cities having a population of 75,000 or over; also total

number of changes in all other classified post offices..

Table 13. Showing the number of clerks and substitute clerks, carriers and

substitute carriers, the number of excepted and the number of

unclassified positions in each of seven of the largest post offices at

the close of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910

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Table 14. Showing number and percentage of separations from each of seven of

the largest post offices for each year from July, 1896, to June, 1910.

Table 15. 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, 1910..

Table 16. Showing changes in the Internal-Revenue Service during the fiscal

year ended June 30, 1910.............

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Table 17. Showing separations from competitive positions, by branches of the

service and by fiscal years, from 1903 to 1910, inclusive.............

Table 18. Showing number of positions, by status, on July 1, 1909, additions

by appointments, etc., and subtractions by separations, etc., during

the fiscal year, and number of positions on June 30, 1910..

Table 19. Showing, for all branches of the classified service, the number exam-

ined, the number that passed, the per cent that passed, the number

appointed, the per cent appointed of those that passed, and the

approximate number of competitive positions in the service, during

the several periods covered by the reports of the commission .

Index..

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