Much the larger number of the 486 persons examined for the Pension Office made their applications for places created by the act of July, 1884.

Special Rule No. 3 required a separate apportionment to be made of the 150 places in the Pension Office, provided for by that act, except so far as they should be filled by promotions. After the promotions had been made, only 89 places were left to be apportioned. There having been great need of filling the places promptly, 26 of the 89 places had been filled before Special Rule 3 was promulgated. The actual apportionment of the 89 places was as follows:

TABLE. No. 6.

Statement showing (1) the number of officers in the several Executive Departments at Washington appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate; (2) the number not subject to confirmation, whose compensation exceeds $1,800 per annum, and (3) the number excepted from examination under Kule XIX.

APPENDIX No. 7.

The following are specimen sets of the questions used in some of the examinations held under the rules:

DEPARTMENTAL.-SERIES No. 6.-LIMITED EXAMINATION.

(First subject.)

Question 1. One of the examiners will read so distinctly that each person being examined can hear him, one of the exercises for dictation accompanying these papers. In general not more than fifteen or eighteen words per minute should be read, nor more than five or six words without pause. Give the sense as much as possible, and be sure that all can hear. Allow two minutes at the close for punctuation.

(To APPLICANT. Write as much as you can of the passage read. If from any cause you miss a word, do not pause, but go on with the next words you hear. Write clearly and spell correctly.)

Question 2. Copy the following precisely:

"The amount of the funded debt redeemable at any time before September 1, 1891, which will remain unpaid on the 30th of June, 1883, is about $300,000,000, and upon the foregoing estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, the whole funded debt now redeemable could be paid before June 30, 1886. This would leave as the surplus for more than five years the amount of $600,000,000 undisposed of in the Treas ury, unless, yielding to the temptation of seeming wealth, expenditures be largely increased. The amount of the loan redeemable in 1891 is only $250,000,000, and, as has been stated, no other loan becomes redeemable until 1907, so that the surplus under the conditions supposed will rapidly increase until that date. The amount of the loan of 1907, as already appears, is less than $740,000,000, so that, were it all redeemable, the whole public debt could be paid from a surplus as great as estimated early in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894."-[Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, 1882.]

Question 3. Write the following words, spelling them correctly:

Question 1. During the fiscal year 1884 the exportation of cotton from certain American ports was as follows: New Orleans, 703,698,018 pounds; Baltimore, 84,620,654 pounds; New York, 278,358,580 pounds; Yorktown, 11,208,246 pounds; Galveston, 190,574,067 pounds. What was the total number of pounds exported from the ports named ?

Question 2. The number of yards of cotton cloth produced in the United States in 1860 was 1,148,252,406, and in 1880, 2,273,278,025. By how many yards did the production of 1880 exceed that of 1860?

Give the operation in full.

Question 3. How long will it take 50 clerks to count $1,500,000 in silver coin, one-half of which is in half dollars and the other half in quarter dollars, each clerk counting at the rate of fifty pieces a minute? Express the answer in hours.

Give the operation in full.

Question 4. Write in figures one million one thousand and one dollars and one cent.

Question 5. Multiply 657,934 by 3,209.

Give the operation in full.

Question 6. The whole number of pieces of mail matter handled at 112 post-offices was 1,143,518,880. What was the average number of pieces for each office?

Give the operation in full.

Question 7. The War Department expended $1,765.25 for mucilage at $5.75 a dozen quarts. How many quarts were purchased?

Give the operation in full.

Question 8. The Post Office Department bought 6,670 pounds of twine at 193 cents a pound; 372 pounds of sponge at 653 cents a pound; and 40 dozen of ink at $2.50 a dozen. What was the total cost of the purchase?

Give the operation in full.

(Fourth subject.)

Question 1. Write a letter in the space below addressed to Richard Rush, esq., Philadelphia, Pa., on the comparative advantages and disadvantages of city and country life.

This exercise is designed chiefly to test your skill in simple English composition and your knowledge of the rules of punctuation.

DEPARTMENTAL.-SERIES No. 6.-GENERAL EXAMINATION. (First subject.)

Question 1. One of the examiners will read so distinctly that each person being examined can hear him, one of the exercises for dictation accompanying these papers. In general not more than fifteen or eighteen words per minute should be read, nor more than five or six words without pause. Give the sense as much as possible, and be sure that all can hear. Allow two minutes at the close for punctuation.

(To APPLICANT. Write as much as you can of the passage read. If from any cause you miss a word, do not pause but go on with the next words you hear. Write clearly and spell correctly.)

Question 2. Copy the following precisely:

It is estimated that there were not less than 113,329 miles of railways operated in the United States at the close of the year 1882, which, at the low estimate of $30,000 per mile, have cost over $3,400,000,000. There have been moved upon these roads in the same time 360,500,000 tons of freight, being about 7 tons per head of population, the value of which freight would probably be over $15,000,000,000, or nearly ten times the valuation of the whole foreign trade of the country. The gross receipts were $770,000,000; the payments for interest $149,000,000; for dividends $102,000,000, and for labor and materials not far from

$490,000,000. There were 1,400,000 persons employed in operating these roads, and, probably, 400,000 upon the construction of new lines, which would be 3 per cent. of the whole population of the country directly dependent upon the railways for employment and support.

Question 3. Copy the following, correcting the spelling and supplying capitals and punctuation :

down to the rein of elisabeth most of the houzes had no chimnes the smoak ishued threw the doars roufs and winders the beds ware straw palets with a log for a pillar.

(Second subject.)

Question 1. According to the census of 1880 the value of manufactured products of Boston was $130,531,993; Brooklyn, $177,223,142; Chicago, $249,022,948; New York; $472,926,437; Philadelphia, $324,342,935; St. Louis, $114,333,375. What was the total value of manufactured products of the cities named?

Give the operation in full.

Express in figures the following numbers:

Question 2. Öne million one thousand one hundred and one.

Question 3. Two hundred and two million one hundred thousand and one, and six hundred-thousandths.

Express in words the following numbers:

Question 4. 103,004,601.00025.

Question 5. 10,010,011,206.

Question 6. The cost price of beef is 103 cents per pound, and of flour 3 cents per pound. A ration consists of 1 lb. 4 oz. of beef and 1 lb. 6oz. of flour. What will be the cost of 10,840 rations at the above rates?

Question 7. From 1,000 grams of pure gold may be coined 279 of the 10 mark pieces of Germany. One gram is equivalent to 15.432349 Troy grains. The U. S. gold dollar contains 23 Troy grains. What is the equivalent in U. S. dollars of the 10 mark piece, decimally expressed? Give the operation in full.

Question 8. Of an importation of wool weighing 42 tons 19 cwt. 3 qrs. 20 lbs., 21 tons 4 cwt. 1 qr. 19 lbs. are sold, and one-half the remainder is lost by fire. How much is left? (The cwt. equals 112 lbs.

Give the operation in full.

Question 9. Two money counters in the Treasury were given packages of redeemed U. S. notes to count. The first received 100 $100 notes, 200 $50 notes, 300 $20 notes, and 400 $10 notes; and of each denomination there were 10 notes discounted each. The second counter received 50 $100 notes, 150 $50 notes, 250 $20 notes, and 350 $10 notes; and of each denomination there were 20 notes discounted each. What was the total face value of all the notes when issued, the total discount, and the cash value of the notes redeemed?

Give the operation in full.

Question 10. The whole amount of fractional currency issued was $368,724,079.45, and the amount outstanding unredeemed June 30, 1883. $15,354,425.31. What amount had been redeemed at that time, and what per centum was it of the whole amount issued?

Give the operation in full.

(Third subject.)

Question 1. At the close of business July 31, 1884, the interest-bearing debt of the United States was as follows: Bonds at 3 per cent., $237,453,250; bonds at 4 per cent., $250,000,000; bonds at 4 per cent.,