“Regulations governing admission to the Departments." Should you be so selected, you will be notified when and where to appear for examination. Personal importunity will not favorably affect the selection.

Very respectfully,

Chief of Appointment Bureau.

VII. At least ten days prior to each examination, a notification to appear at a time and place to be stated will be mailed to the eligible candidates, unless it should be found impracticable to examine all of them, in which case a practicable number will be selected under the second regulation for the civi, service, promulgated April 16, 1872, and notified to appear for examination. Those not selected for examination will remain on the eligible list.

APPOINTMENT,

Form IV.

Application No.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Washington,

187-.

-: I am directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to inform you that you have been selected by the Board of Examiners to compete in an examination for a clerkship of CLASS ONE, uuder Paragraph VII, printed below, of the "Regulations govern ing admission to the Departments." You are hereby notified that you may appear for examination, at the Rooms of the Board of Examiners for the Treasury Department, No. 1328 F Street, (second floor,) Washington, D. C., on the 187-, at nine o'clock A. M.

day of

Your careful attention is invited to the inclosed "Rules of Examination." This notification must be presented to the Secretary of the Board as your authority to appear.

Very respectfully,

Chief of Appointment Bureau.

VII. At least ten days prior to each examination, a notification to appear at a time and place to be stated will be mailed to the eligible candidates, unless it should be found impracticable to examine all of them, in which case a practicable number will be selected under the second regulation for the civil service, promulgated April 16, 1872, and notified to appear for examination. Those not selected for examination will remain on the eligible list.

APPOINTMENT,
Form V. j

Application No.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Washington,

187-.

-: I am directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to inform you that you have been selected by the Board of Examiners to compete in an examination for a clerkship at $900 a year, under Paragraph VII, printed below, of the "Regulations governing admission to the Departments." You are hereby notified that you may appear for examination, at the Rooms of the Board of Examiners for the Treasury Department, No. 132 F Street, (second floor,) Washington, D. C., on the 187-, at nine o'clock A. M.

day of

Your careful attention is invited to the inclosed Rules of Examination." This notification must be presented to the Secretary of the Board as your authority to appear.

Very respectfully,

Chief of Appointment' Bureau.

VIL At least ten days prior to each examination, a notification to appear at a time and place to be stated will be mailed to the eligible candidates, unless it should be found impracticable to examine all of them, in which case a practicable number will be selected under the second regulation for the civil service, promulgated April 16, 1872. and notified to appear for examination. Those not selected for examination will remain on the eligible list.

APPOINTMENT,
Form VI.

Application No.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Washington,

187-.

I am directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to inform you that your name has been certified to him by the Board of Examiners as one of three standing highest in an examination for the purpose of filling a vacancy in class in the office of the ————————, and that you have been selected by him for appointment to the vacancy. Your appointment will be delivered to you upon your presenting yourself at the Department, and subscribing and filing the oath required by law. Very respectfully,

in the

Having been examined and selected for appointment, under the Rules and Regulations for the Civil Service, you are hereby appointed a clerk of - class office of the for a probationary term of six months. If, at the end of that term, satisfactory proofs of your fitness shall have been furnished by the Board of Examiners, you will be re-appointed; otherwise, your employment under this appointment will then cease.

Having been examined and selected for promotion and appointment, under the Rules and Regulations for the Civil Service, you are hereby promoted and appointed a clerk of class in the office of the

I am directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to inform you that your name having been certified to him by the Board of Examiners, he has availed himself of the privilege of objecting to it, under Paragraph X (printed below) of the “Regu

lations governing admission to the Departmants." It has therefore been dropped from the list of candidates eligible for appointment.

Very respectfully,

When

Chief of Appointment Bureau. X. The board of examiners will prepare a list of the persons examined in the order of their excelence, as proved by such examination, beginning with the highest, and will then certify to the head of the Department the names standing at the head of such list, not exceeding three. more than one appointment is to be made, the vacancies will be numbered, and the first three names will be certified for the first vacancy, the remaining two and the fourth for the second vacancy, the remaining two and the fifth for the third vacaney, and so on for the whole number of vacancies; but df, after selecting one of any three certified for appointment, the head of the Department shall object to another presentation of "either of the remaining names, it shall not be again certified.

The BOARD OF EXAMINERS FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
GENTLEMEN: I am directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to inform you that

-: The Board of Examiners having furnished satisfactory proofs of your fitness for a clerkship of

appointed on the

class day of

in the Treasury Department, to which you were 187-, for a probationary term of six months, under the Rules and Regulations for the Civil Service, you are hereby re-appointed and assigned to duty in the office of the

Office of the

APPOINTMENT,Į
Form XII. j

Secretary of the Treasury.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

-, 187-.

of

-: I am directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to inform you that the Board of Examiners has not furnished satisfactory proofs of your fitness for a clerkship class in this Department, to which you were appointed 187-, for a probationary term of six months, under the Rules and Regulations for the Civil Service, and that, in accordance with the terms of your letter of appointment, your employment thereunder will cease —

187-.

SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the ing the Board of Examiners of the existence of

in the

- informand directing it

to fix a time for holding an examination for the purpose of filling the same, and to inform you that has been fixed as the time for the examination, and that due

SIR: The persons named in the inclosed list have signified their intention to compete in an examination to be held for the purpose of filling a vacancy now existing in your office. Paragraph II of the "Regulations governing Examinations for Promotions," states that in such examinations "due weight will be given to the efficiency with which the several candidates shall have previously performed their duties in the Department." As the head of the office is the person best acquainted with the efficiency of his employees, I have the honor to request that you will mark on a scale of 100, opposite the names in the inclosed list, your estimate of the efficiency of the several candidates, as shown by them during their connection with your office. The term "efficiency” is understood to include ability, industry, and habits. Please return the list at your earliest convenience.

day of

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

Board of Civil Service Examiners,
Washington,

187-.

187, in accordance with the

Rules and Regulations for the ; that a list of the names

WE HEREBY CERTIFY, That a public competitive examination was held by us on the Civil Service, for the purpose of filling a vacancy in of the persons examined, in the order of their excellence, as proved by such examination, beginning with the highest, has been prepared by us; and that the three names written below stand at the head of such list:

CIVIL SERVICE,
Form IV.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

Application No.

Board of Civil Service Examiners,
Washington,

187-.

-: I am directed by the Board of Examiners to inform you that, in the examination held ———————, 187—, you passed the minimum standard of sixty per centum, but failed to receive an appointment. If you shall so request the Board in writing, within ten days from this date, your examination papers will be brought into competition with those of candidates who shall compete for vacancies of the same class and nature at other examinations occurring within one year, in accordance with Paragraph XI, printed below, of the "Regulations governing admission to the Departments."

Very respectfully,

Secretary of the Board.

XI. The examination papers of any candidate who shall have passed a minimum standard of sixty per centum, but who shall fail to be appointed, will, if requested by the candidate, be brought into competition with those of candidates who shall compete for vacancies of the same class and nature at other examinations occurring within one year: Provided, however, That the candidate shall not have been specially objected to by the head of the Department under the last preceding regulation.

-: I am directed by the Board of Examiners to inform you that in the examination held on the —, you failed to pass the minimum standard of sixty per centum. Your name has, therefore, been dropped from the list of candidates eligible for appointment.