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(2.) There is this exception, however, in regard to removals. The Commission will investigate any charge of an alleged removal by reason of a refusal to pay an assessment. (Rule 2.)

WHEN MAY AN APPOINTMENT BE EXPECTED?-(1.) The Commission will not attempt to predict the time or probability of an appointment. The highest mark possible is 100, the lowest which gives eligibility for appointment is 65. Each applicant by his examination practically decides his own standing, and hence his own chances of an early appoint

ment.

(2.) The time of examination is not considered in making certifications, as the highest in grade on the register must be certified first, even though the last examined. Upon strict business principles, the Government insists on the most competent who offer to work for the salary it

pays.

(3.) When any State is reached in its order of apportionment the request for a certification may be 1, for females, 2, for males, 3, for those who have passed the limited examination, 4, for those who have passed the general examination, or 5, for those who have passed some one of three or four special examinations. There are, therefore, all these contingencies against the possibility of predicting correctly the particular person who may be selected.

(4.) Neither the Commission nor any one connected therewith can inform applicants of their standing as compared with other persons. (See sec. 5 of the act.)

APPOINTMENT OF WOMEN.-(1.) The civil service act and the rules make no discrimination in regard to sex. The examinations are open alike to both sexes.

(2.) The appointing officer, in his requests for certifications, declares whether males or females are desired. The Commission must certify from the sex named. If the sex is not specified, the highest in grade, irrespective of sex, must be certified.

(3.) Very few females are appointed in either the postal or the customs service.

(4.) In the departmental service less than a sixth part of the appointments have thus far been of females; and more than one-third of those examined have been of that sex.

THE GRADE OF APPLICANTS NOT MADE PUBLIC.-The Commission bas no wish, on its own account, to conceal the marking of any one, but the injustice and uselessness of making public the failures to pass the examinations are manifest. The Commission and examining boards. will not, therefore, give the standing of applicants to strangers.

EFFECT OF AN APPOINTMENT.-Applicants who have accepted an appointment, or been tendered one which they fail to accept, are regarded as no longer on the register of eligibles or the record of applicants.

PAPERS CANNOT BE RETURNED.-All application papers and accompanying certificates of vouchers are a part of the records which the civil service act requires the Commission to preserve, and under no circumstances will the originals be returned to the applicant.

COMMISSION CANNOT GIVE ADVICE.—The Commission cannot advise persons as to vacancies in the service, nor furnish information as to the duties, salaries, course of promotion, or other facts as to positions, except such as may be found in its reports.

Address all communications to United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.

(Six statistical tables.)

TABLE NO. 1.-LIMITED AND GENERAL EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE.

This table is in two parts: Part 1 shows the number, &c., who have taken the limited examination only. Part 2 shows the number, &c., who have taken the general examination. See Rule 7, clauses 1 and 4.

But this table does not show the whole number who have taken the general and limited examinations. The papers of three hundred and five persons who have taken these examinations are not tabulated. These persons are from thirty-two States and two Territories. Their tabulation would not materially vary either the average age, the ratio of sexes, or the proportion of those who passed. To show the whole number examined for the departmental service the 791 given in Table No. 5, and the 305 above mentioned must be added to those here tabulated, making in all two thousand two hundred and seventy-six.

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TABLE No. 2.-POSTAL SERVICE.

Showing the number of examinations held, with class, average age, education, the number passing at 65 per cent, or over, average age, education, and the number appointed.

Albany

Baltimore

Boston.

Brooklyn.

Buffalo..

Chicago

Cincinnati.

Cleveland.
Detroit
Indianapolis
Jersey City.
Kansas City.
Louisville.
Milwaukee.
Minneapolis
Newark....
New Haven
New Orleans

New York City.
Philadelphia..
Pittsburgh
Providence.
Rochester
Saint Louis.
Saint Paul.
San Francisco.
Washington City.

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TABLE No. 3.-CUSTOMS SERVICE.

Statement showing the number of examinations held, the number examined, class, average age, education; number passing at 65 or upwards, education and the number appointed.

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This table shows the apportionment of five hundred places among the several States and Territories on the basis of population; the left-hand column stating the number falling to each State and Territory and the other column the number of appointments which has actually been made from each State and Territory under the civil service act.

The act allows no reference to the old quota or apportionment which existed when it was passed.

The excess of appointments from the District of Columbia and from Maryland was unavoidable in the early stages of the work of the Commission, and arose mainly from the difficulty of providing persons hav ing the technical knowledge needed in places for which special exam. inations are held. The Commission has provided for examinations in. tended to prevent this excess in the future.

There was a separate apportionment of eighty-nine persons appointed in the Pension Office, for which see Table No. 5.

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