MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

Information for boards of examiners concerning applications, examinations, and appointments (Form 131); unauthorized appointments (Form 1774); concerning reinstatements (Form 126); concerning transfers (Form 305); information and extracts from statutes and executive and departmental orders concerning political activity and political assessments (Form 1236); information concerning veteran preference (Form 1481); concerning classification, assignment, and appointment of laborers (Form 1725); removals (Form 505); the holding of State or municipal offices by Government employees (Form 1648); temporary appointments (Form 1729); instructions to district secretaries and other persons conducting investigations for the Civil Service Commission (Form 1698); brief of prosecutions in connection with civil-service examinations (Form 1775); information concerning the classification of assistant postmasters and clerks at certain first and second class post offices (Form 1865).

REGULATIONS.

General regulations governing the United States civil-service districts (Form 1452); regulations governing promotions and transfers in the Customs Service at all ports except New York (Form 1556); regulations governing promotions, transfers, and restorations in the Customs Service at the port of New York (Form 1522); regulations governing the appointment of unskilled laborers in the Federal offices outside of Washington, D. C. (Form 1782); regulations governing the appointment of unclassified laborers in the departments at Washington, D. C.; regulations for the Isthmian Canal Service on the Isthmus of Panama; regulations governing admission to the grade of surfman in the Life-Saving Service (Form 396); regulations governing appointment of fourth-class postmasters (Form 1752); general regulations governing promotion from positions below the grade of clerk or copyist-Departmental Service. For regulations governing other branches of the classified service see page 104, ante. Copies of the Philippine act and rules can be had by addressing the commission.

ARCHIVES OF THE COMMISSION.

In aid of persons interested in promoting the civil-service reform movement, historical investigators and others who may desire to know what material is to be found in the archives of the commission bearing upon subjects concerning which they desire information, it may be said that the library of the commission contains fairly complete collections of congressional documents, and departmental and other publications relating to executive patronage and the civil service, as well as collections of bills, speeches, and newspaper clippings, and of the reports and other publications of State and city civil service commissions. The records of the commission are largely administrative in character, and their interest is chiefly personal, but they are of value in the study of executive patronage and the application of remedies for abuses in the exercise of the appointing power. They are complete since the establishment of the commission in 1883, are provided with a subject index, and accessible for historical purposes. They embrace the minutes of the proceedings of the commission in 31 volumes, a card record of everyone in the classified service, with a history of his service, volumes containing specimens of all questions used in the examinations, reports of hearings before committees of Congress, and files of correspondence with the President, the executive departments, and the general public.

The annual reports of the commission, of which 28 have been issued, contain historical and statistical statements of the chief matters of public interest in the commission's work. The Twenty-fifth Report contains an index of the preceding reports and a list of the notable articles in them.

The politics laboratory of the department of politics of Columbia University, New York City, is making a fairly exhaustive collection of material on civil service, which it is believed will be of advantage to students of civil-service reform.

HISTORICAL REGISTER

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

COMMISSIONERS:

JOHN C. BLACK, Illinois, President.
JOHN A. McILHENNY, Louisiana.
WILLIAM S. WASHBURN, New York.

GEORGE R. WALES, Chief Examiner.
JOHN T. DOYLE, Secretary.

List of commissioners, chief examiners, and secretaries since 1883.

May 5, 1909 Resigned May 25, 1909.

2 Mr. Wales, when appointed by the President as chief examiner, had served on the force of the commission for 14 years as clerk, examiner, law clerk, chief of division, and assistant chief examiner.

3 Mr. Doyle was appointed stenographer to the commission Mar. 9, 1883, and promoted upon appointment by the President from that position to secretary.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

General executive orders issued from February 22, 1911, to June 30, 1911, and special exceptions to the civil-service rules from February 28, 1911, to June 30, 1911, are here presented under the following arrangement:

(1) Orders amending the general rules and regulations.

(2) Orders amending schedule A.

(3) Miscellaneous orders.

(4) Orders excepting persons named from the requirements of the rules. The eighteenth report, pages 161-327, contains a compilation of the civilservice rules, special orders, and classifications from May 7, 1883, to August 16, 1902. The nineteenth report gives executive orders in full for the year ending June 30, 1902, at pages 74–92. Executive orders to June 30, 1903, appear in the twentieth report, pages 65-76; to June 30, 1904, in the twenty-first report, pages 76-91; general orders from July 1, 1904, to December 31, 1905, and special exceptions from July 1, 1904, to December 22, 1905, in the twenty-second report, pages 69-95; general orders from January 1, 1906, to March 28, 1907, and special exceptions from December 23, 1905, to January 31, 1907, in the twenty-third report, pages 91-107; general orders from March 29, 1907, to April 21, 1908, and special exceptions from February 1, 1907, to May 1, 1908, in the twentyfourth report, pages 103-138; general orders from April 22, 1908, to October 21, 1908, and special exceptions from May 2, 1908, to October 28, 1908, in the twentyfifth report, pages 122-139; general orders from October 22, 1908, to March 12, 1910, and special exceptions from October 29, 1908, to January 13, 1910, in the twenty-sixth report, pages 109-133; and general orders from March 13, 1910, to February 21, 1911, and special exceptions from January 14, 1910, to February 27, 1911, in the twenty-seventh report, pages 105-116.

ORDERS AMENDING GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS.

April 21, 1911.

RETRANSFER FROM LEGISLATIVE SERVICE.

Civil-service Rule X, paragraph 3, is hereby amended by substituting a semicolon for the period at the end of the first sentence and adding the following: Or if he entered the classified service upon competitive examination, and the legislative service by transfer therefrom, and is found by the commission to have served continuously and satisfactorily.

As amended the paragraph will read as follows:

3. Any person may be retransferred to a position in which he was formerly employed, or to any position to which transfer could be made therefrom, if since his transfer he has been continuously in the executive or judicial civil service of the United States, or of its insular possessions; or if he entered the classified service upon competitive examination, and the legislative service by transfer therefrom, and is found by the commission to have served continuously and satisfactorily. Such retransfer may be made without compliance with clauses (b), (c), (d), and (e) of section 8 of this rule.

Transfers to the legislative service of employees who have entered the classified service upon competitive examination and have become experienced in that service, and their subsequent retransfer with the experience acquired in the legislative branch will, it is believed, be beneficial to both services, and the amendment is recommended by the Civil Service Commission.

May 26, 1911.

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CLASSIFICATION IN POST OFFICES.

Section 6 of civil-service Rule II is hereby amended by prefixing to it the words except as provided in section 7 of this rule," by inserting the word "but" in lieu of the words "except that," and by striking out the words following the word "commission." As amended section 6 will read as follows:

6. Except as provided in section 7 of this rule, a person holding a position when it becomes classified and subject to competitive examination shall have

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all the rights which he would acquire if appointed thereto upon examination under these rules, but he shall not be transferred without first passing the examination provided by the commission.

Sections 7 and 8 of civil-service Rule II are hereby revoked and a new section as follows will be inserted in their place, the subsequent sections of Rule II to be renumbered accordingly:

7. The Postmaster General shall promptly notify the commission of each order for the advancement of any post office from the third class to the second class, or for the consolidation of any post office with one in which the employees are classified as competitive. On the date of effect of such order these rules shall apply to the positions, officers, and employees of the offices affected in the same manner as they apply to those in offices now classified, and all appointments after an eligible register has been established shall be made by selection from the register; but no officer or employee in any post office shall be classified under the terms of this section who fails to establish to the satisfaction of the Postmaster General his capacity for efficient service in the position held; and if he has been appointed within less than 60 days prior to the application of these rules to such office he shall not be classified without the express consent of the commission. The Postmaster General shall, upon the date he reports the advancement of any post office from the third to the second class, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, notify the commission as to which of the employees in said office he desires to report for classification.

Subdivision VII of schedule A is amended by striking out of paragraph 4 the words "having no city Free Delivery Service," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "of the third and fourth classes; by striking out paragraph 5, excepting assistant postmasters, and paragraph 8, excepting clerks in charge of stations whose compensation does not exceed $500 per annum; and by renumbering the paragraphs of the subdivision.

As amended Subdivision VII will read as follows:

VII. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

1. The Assistant Attorney General for the Post Office Department.

2. One private secretary or confidential clerk to the Assistant Attorney General and one to the purchasing agent of the Post Office Department.

3. One private secretary or confidential clerk to the postmaster, if authorized by the Postmaster General, at each post office where the receipts of the last preceding fiscal year amounted to as much as $350,000.

4. All employees on star routes and in post offices of the third and fourth classes, other than postmasters of the fourth class, in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

5. One auditor at the post office in New York City.

6. Clerks in charge of contract stations, appropriated for as such and so reported.

7. Chief post-office inspector.

ORDERS AMENDING SCHEDULE A.

CLERK TO ASSISTANT PAYMASTER, UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS.

April 3, 1911.

Schedule A of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by the insertion of a new paragraph under Subdivision V, Navy Department, to be numbered 4, and to read as follows:

4. One clerk actually on duty with each assistant paymaster of the United States Marine Corps.

This action is recommended by the Navy Department and the Civil Service Commission because the fiduciary and confidential relations that should exist between a paymaster and his clerk, in the opinion of the department, justify the exception and because, according to an opinion of the Attorney General of July 30, 1909, and the decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury under date of March 9, 1911, it would seem that these persons are regular officers of the Marine Corps.

ASSISTANT TO SECRETARY, OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.

April 21, 1911.

Schedule A, Subdivision VIII, of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by the addition of the following paragraph to be numbered 25:

25. The assistant to the Secretary in the office of the Secretary of the Interior.

In view of the statement of the Secretary of the Interior that the position is one which involves duties which are peculiarly personal and confidential, the Civil Service Commission concurs in the recommendation that the position be excepted from the requirement of examination.

PAYMASTERS, NEW YORK CUSTOMS DISTRICT, MADE COMPETITIVE.

June 12, 1911.

Schedule A, Subdivision III, paragraph 3, of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by striking out the words two paymasters." As amended the paragraph will read as follows:

3. In the New York customs district; stitch counters.

The effect of this amendment, which is recommended by the collector of customs and the department and concurred in by the Civil Service Commission, is to remove the two positions of paymaster from the excepted class and place them in the competitive class.

ORDERS EXCEPTING PERSONS NAMED FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE RULES.

March 20, 1911.

On January 1, 1911, for the purposes of economy, certain storehouses of the Panama Railroad Co. were consolidated with the storehouse operated by the quartermaster's department of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and all the employees of the Panama Railroad Co. whose services were needed in the consolidated storehouse were transferred to the Isthmian Canal Commission. Among the employees so transferred are Francis E. Huck, jr., Reuben B. Luker, Edmund Sale, Peter Stuart, and Carl M. Williams, who have been employed as clerks by the Panama Railroad Co. for a number of years, during which time they have rendered satisfactory service, and since January 1, 1911, have been temporarily employed under the civil-service rules.

These persons may be retained and become a part of the classified force of the Isthmian Canal Commission under section 6 of civil-service Rule II, but with the same restrictions applicable to clerks appointed on the Isthmus without a competitive status, who in order to be transferred must pass a competitive examination and be reached for certification. The classification of these persons is made upon the recommendation of the Isthmian Canal Commission, with the concurrence of the Secretary of War and the Civil Service Commission. April 4, 1911.

Mr. W. E. Shields may be reinstated to a classified position in the Government Printing Office. The Public Printer stated that Mr. Shields was separated from the service by reason of misconduct; that he has been sufficiently punished. His reinstatement is requested and recommended by the Joint Committee on Printing Investigation of Congress as in the public interest. The Civil Service Commission does not recommend the reinstatement. After full consideration it is ordered that the civil-service rules be suspended and that Mr. Shields be reinstated to the classified position in the Government Printing Office from which he was separated.

April 15, 1911.

In view of her good record and evidence of her efficiency and ability, the year of eligibility of Mrs. Mary E. Gunion, a former employee of the Government Printing Office, may be extended and she may be reinstated, with the requirement of six months' service next preceding transfer waived. This appointment appears to be in the interests of the public service.

Mrs. Gunion is a daughter of Edward McQuade, late driver for the Secretary of War, who, while driving the Secretary's horses, was killed in a successful effort to save the lives of the occupants of the carriage, and by his death Mrs.