(c) The following-named positions in certain field branches: Pago. Copyist draftsman and mechanical apprentice draftsman, Engineer Department at Large 17 Field clerk and mechanical draftsman, Reclamation Service 21,23 Forest clerk, Forest Service 21 Computing clerk, Forest Service 23 In the Quartermaster Corps: Messenger, stenographer, watchman, and the follow Page. ing noneducational positions: Positions Matron and matron-Interpreter, Immigra- Office deputy United States marshal, De- Additional positions may be included in the Eleventh-District organization when the conditions of the service make such additions desirable and practicable. Information relating particularly to positions in Alaska is given on page 28. 4. All civil-service work pertaining to the positions named in section 3 is under the direction of a district secretary, subject to the supervision of the United States Civil Service Commission. The address of the district secretary is, "Secretary, Eleventh Civil-Service District, Post Office, Seattle, Wash." 5. For information concerning vacancies in any Federal office and salaries and duties of positions, inquiry should be made of the official in charge of the office. HOW TO PROCEED TO SECURE AN EXAMINATION. 6. Vacancies in all positions covered by this publication are filled by open competitive examination, unless filled by reinstatement, transfer, or promotion. Persons who wish to take any of the examinations described should follow the directions contained in this pamphlet. In writing for application forms or for information the name of the examination desired should always be stated. The application form when received should be carefully filled out in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and mailed without delay to the "Secretary, Eleventh Civil-Service District, Seattle, Wash." If the application is received by the district secretary within the period prescribed for the receipt of applications, and the applicant is found to be entitled to the examination requested, a card will be sent to him in time to admit him to the examination if a mental test is required. If an average percentage of 70 or more is attained in the examination (65 or more in the case of persons honorably discharged from the United States military or naval service for disability incurred in the line of duty, see sec. 10) the applicant becomes an "eligible" (that is, eligible for appointment when reached in the order of his standing), and his name is placed on a "register of eligibles." (See sees. 182 to 196.) 7. A large number of communications are received in which the writers fail to give their full post-office addresses, and in many cases the letters are not signed. Applicants should see that their names are plainly and correctly written and their postoffice addresses (city, street, and number) given in full. A number of applications fail to reach the district secretary on account of not having sufficient postage attached. Usually at least 4 cents is required. It is not necessary to inclose postage stamps in order to secure a reply from the district secretary. PERSONS WHO SHALL NOT BE EXAMINED. 8. Any of the following ehall be sufficient cause for excluding a person from examination: (a) That he is not a citizen of or does not owe allegiance to the United States. (See sec. 26.) (6) That he is, on the date of the examination, under the minimum or over the maximum age limit. (See sec. 23.) (c) That he has any of the following defects: Insanity; tuberculosis; paralysis; epilepsy; blindness; loss of both anna or both legs; loss of arm and leg; badly crippled or deformed hands, arms, feet, or legs; uncompensated valvular disease of the heart; locomotor ataxia; cancer; Bright's disease; diabetes, or is otherwise physically disqualified for the service which he seeks. (d) That he is addicted to the habitual use of intoxicating beverages to excess. (e) That he is enlisted in the United States Army or Navy and has not secured permission for his examination from the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, respectively. Written permission must be filed with the formal application. (/) That he has, within approximately one year, passed the same examination for which he again desires to apply. This restriction shall not apply to persons who, having taken one annual examination, desire to take the next annual examination, although a full year may not have elapsed. (</) That he has been dismissed from the Federal service for delinquency or misconduct within one year preceding the date of his application. Whether or not an application will be accepted after the expiration of a year from a person dismissed from the service rests with the Commission, and each case of this character will be considered on its individual merits. (h) That he has failed after probation to receive absolute appointment to the position for which he again applies within one year from the date of the expiration of his probationary service. (See sec. 196.) (i) That he has made a false statement in his application, or has been guilty of fraud or deceit in any manner connected with his application or examination, or has been guilty of crime or infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct. (j) That he has been dishonorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States. DEAF-MUTES. 9. The President on April 7, 1909, issued the following order in regard to the admission of deaf-mutes to civil-service examinations: Deaf-mutes may be admitted to examinations for all places in the classified civil service of the United States whose duties, in the opinion of the heads of the several executive departments, they may be considered capable of performing, and each department will furnish to the Civil Service Commission a list of such positions, which list shall not be changed without previous notice to the Commission, and in accordance with which the Commission shall certify or withhold from certification deaf-mutes as they are reached in their order. Form 1786, containing a list of examinations to which deaf-mutes will be admitted, will be sent upon request. • PREFERENCE IN APPOINTMENT. 10. Section 1754 of the Revised Statutes provides that persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds received or sickness incurred in the line of duty shall be preferred for appointments to the civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices. A person who has been allowed preference by the Commission has the following advantages: (a) He is released from all age limitations; (6) he has to attain an average percentage of only 65 to be eligible, while for all others the average percentage required is 70; (c) having attained an average percentage of 65, his name is placed upon the register above, and is certified before, those of persons who have not been allowed preference; and (d) he is released from the law and rules relating to apportionment of appointments. (Appointments outside of Washington, D. C., are not apportioned.) If on the same register the names of more than one preference claimant appear, the name of the claimant having the highest average percentage will, of course, head the list. Persons entitled to preference under this section are not released from any requirement as to physical condition or from any other requirement of the examination for which application is made, except those specifically mentioned above. Preference under this section does not apply to promotion examinations or to examinations for the Philippine Service. Previous employment in the Government service does not entitle an eligible to preference in appointment. GENERAL INFORMATION. 11. A person holding a classified position will not be permitted to compete in an examination of the same kind as that given for the position occupied or of the kind which resulted in appointment to the service until after three years from the date of appointment, with the following exceptions: (a) The three-year limitation shall not apply to any person who has been appointed and who desires to be examined for the same position in another of the four branches of the service (Departmental, Field, Philippine, and Isthmian Canal). (6) The three-year limitation shall not apply to any person who is to be dismissed from the service within the three years on account of necessary reduction of force, or whose services will cease with those of the officer by whom he was commissioned, and who has not been examined within approximately one year from the date of the examination to which such person seeks entrance. (c) The three-year limitation shall not apply to any person who has been appointed from the typewriter examination and who desires to take the stenographer examination or the stenographer and typewriter examination for the same branch of the service. In case such person passes the stenographer and typewriter examination his name will not be entered upon the typewriter register. (d) The three year limitation shall not apply to any person who has been appointed from the stenographer examination and who desires to take the typewriter examination or the stenographer and typewriter examination for the same branch of the service. In case such person passes the stenographer and typewriter examination his name will not be entered upon the stenographer register. 12. It is not necessary for a person to resign a Government position in order to take an examination for a position of a kind different from that occupied and of a kind different from that which resulted in appointment to the service. 13. A person who passes in an examination will not be allowed reexamination for the same position, or for any position covered by the same examination, until approximately one year after the date of the former examination, whether or not the competitor has been three times certified. This does not apply to a person who has been examined for the Departmental, Isthmian Canal, or Philippine Service and who desires examination for the Field Service, or vice versa. A person who has been notified of failure to pass in an examination may, upon filing a new application in due time, enter the next examination when held. Reexamination for reasons other than those named above will be granted only in very exceptional cases, in which injustice has for any reason been done or suffered, and in such cases the request for reexamination must be accompanied by a sworn statement of the alleged facts upon which it is based. A simple statement that the applicant did not do himself justice will not be regarded as sufficient ground for allowing a reexamination. An applicant who is sick or who is recovering from sickness when he enters an examination, or who is taken sick during an examination, must abide by the result of his examination, whether or not he states in his declaration sheet that he is physically unable to do himself justice. In case of reexamination all subjects of the examination must be taken. 14. Many applicants fail to execute their applications properly or fail in the examinations, not because of a lack of knowledge, but through haste and carelessness in reading and interpreting questions and in writing the answers. In filling out the application great care should be exercised to comply with every requirement. In the examinations, while competitors must complete their work within a prescribed |