OF THE

UNITED STATES

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

July 1, 1893, to June 30, 1896.

[Previous reports can be consulted at the principal public libraries. ]

WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1897.

9384.53

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting Thirteenth

Annual Report of the Civil Service Commission.

FEBRUARY 27, 1897.-Referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service.

To the Senate and House of Representatives :

I herewith submit the Thirteenth Annual Report of the Civil Service Commission, containing a detailed statement of its important work and exhibiting the present condition of the classified service of the Government.

GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION,

February 8, 1897,

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(See also Index to Report.)

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Views of the President, heads of Departments, and other officials relative to

the civil-service law

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Report (Thirteenth Report of the Commission to the President-

Growth of the service......

Present status ............................

Census of the executive civil service ....

Revision of the Rules.

Examinations and appointments ...

Practical character of examinations...........

Removals .........

Reductions in the number of excepted places

Investigations ..................

Promotions .........................

Demonstrated economy and efficiency....

Tenure-of-office laws.

Further extensions........................................

The Commission's force.....

Historical register of the United States Civil Service Commission.....

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APPENDIX.

PART 1.-CIVIL-SERVICE ACT, RULES, REGULATIONS, ETC.

Report of the chief examiner for the year ended June 30, 1896..

Civil service act ......

Decisions of courts.....

Orders of Postmaster-General.......

Presidential warning against the use of official positions to control politi-

cal movements...........

Order of Postmaster-General forbidding removal of carriers except for

cause

Civil-service rules ..............

Changes in the civil-service rules from May 18, 1895, to May 6, 1896 ......

The executive civil service of the United States....

Action of Congress and the Executive with reference to the civil-service law.

The civil service of Foreign Countries..

Regulations governing promotions :

Departmental service-

From positions below the grade of clerk or copyist to grades equal to

the grade of clerk or copyist (Adopted June 22, 1896)........

Department of Agriculture...

Post-Office Department ....

United States Civil Service Commission .......

Railway Mail Service ........

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