Sulu Archipelago.— Under military supervision and the terms of the agreement between the military representative of the President of the United States, Commander in Chief, and the Sultan of Sulu (Jolo).

Sulu (Jolo) Archipelago..

Balanguingui (group).

Pangutaran (group).

Sulu (Jolo) (group)

Tapul (group)..

Tawi Tawi (group).

Total

Masbate:

Burias

Masbate

Ticao...

Negros, occidental.

Negros, oriental

Panay:

Antique.

Capiz...

Iloilo

Romblon

Leyte..

Marinduque.

Total

Bohol1

Cebu1.

Samar

Total

Visayas-Under military control and military-civil administration.

Visayas-Under military control and military-civil administration-Continued.

Unassigned groups and islands under military control and military-civil administration.

APPENDIX E.

PHILIPPINE CIVIL SERVICE.

By JOHN R. PROCTER, President United States Civil Service Commission.

On September 19, 1900, the United States Philippine Commission passed an act entitled "An act for the establishment and maintenance of an efficient and honest civil service in the Philippine Islands." By this act a board of three members, to be called the Philippine Civil Service Board, is provided for. Each member must be a native of the Philippine Islands or a citizen of the United States. The board is authorized to prepare and adopt rules, to be promulgated by the military governor, to carry out the purposes of the act as declared in its title, by providing for appointments and promotions according to merit, and by competitive examinations, where practicable, in all the executive branches of the government of the Philippine Islands, central, departmental, and provincial, and of the city of Manila.

On December 28, 1900, in pursuance of its authority under this act, the Philippine civil-service board adopted a set of civil-service rules modeled in the main after the United States civil-service rules, but which give to the civil-service board larger discretionary powers than are given to the United States Civil Service Commission.

In the meantime, on November 30, 1900, the President of the United States had issued an order instructing the United States Civil Service Commission to cooperate with and assist the Philippine civilservice board in the performance of its duties. This assistance has been rendered by the commission in a number of ways, chiefly in the preparation and holding of examinations in this country for the purpose of securing elegible registers for the Philippine service, in securing from its own registers, in the absence of available registers for the Philippine service, persons qualified for that service, and in discovering and arranging for the transfer of persons in the Federal service whose peculiar qualifications make them especially valuable to the Philippine service in its formative stage.

Upon the request of the Philippine civil-service board, examinations. for the different grades of positions in the Philippine service, including department assistants, stenographers and typewriters, translators, inspectors of boilers, and lumbermen, have been held by the United States Civil Service Commission.

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The examinations involving stenography and typewriting were held in connection with the commission's regular schedule examinations for the Federal service in the spring and fall of 1901. Examinations for other positions have been held at different times, notably the series of examinations under the title of department assistant, held during the early part of June, 1901, when applicants were given an opportunity to be examined at any point in the United States where the commission had a board of examiners.

From the examinations in stenography and typewriting held during the spring 35 eligibles were obtained in one or both of these subjects. Practically all these eligibles have since been offered appointment in the Philippines, and 20 of them (including two women) have accepted such positions. The statistics from the fall examinations in these subjects are not yet available.

The department assistant examination covers a wide range of topics, and is intended to provide suitable persons for the positions of heads of departments and other high-grade positions in the Philippine service. It was held at 140 different places throughout the United States, over 300 competitors were examined, and a register of 128 eligibles was established. On account of the wider range of this examination and the greater amount of time therefore necessary for its marking, the papers have not yet reached Manila, and consequently no appointments have yet been made from this register.

In the examination held on September 9, 1901, for the position of forester, 5 of the 8 competitors became eligible for and have since received appointment.

Pending the holding of these examinations, and also since they were held, on account of the insufficient number of eligibles obtained, 20 persons (all men) have been appointed as stenographers, or stenographers and typewriters, and 1 as bookkeeper, from the registers established for the Federal service.

Up to the present time 18 classified employees in the Federal service have been transferred to the Philippine service. Of these, 10 were from the positions of foreman, pressman, proof reader, bookbinder, electrotyper, etc., in the Government Printing Office to similar positions in the Philippine service; a statistical clerk in the office of the Register of the Treasury was transferred to a similar position in the office of the Philippine Commission; 2 clerks in the State Department were transferred to the office of the treasurer of the Philippines; 2 forestry assistants in the Department of Agriculture were transferred to the position of forester in the Philippine forestry service, and 1 examiner in the office of the United States Civil Service Commission to a similar position in the office of the Philippine civil service board. The United States Civil Service Commission has also contributed to the personnel of the Philippine civil service board from its own force.

In July, 1900, the Philippine Commission requested the loan of Mr. F. M. Kiggins, chief of the examining division in the office of the United States Civil Service Commission, to aid in preparing and inaugurating the civil service system in the Philippines. Mr. Kiggins was so loaned, and having performed the work for which he went to the Philippines, and having acted temporarily as member of the Philippine civil service board and its first chief examiner, is now returning to the United States. In July, 1901, at the request of the Philippine Commission, Dr. W. S. Washburn, a member of the examining board of the United States Civil Service Commission, was transferred to the Philippine civil service board to take Mr. Kiggins's place as member of the board and chief examiner.