APPORTIONMENT In the accompanying table are arranged (in inverse order) the States and Territories according to the relative percentage of appointments they have received. The first 47 States and Territories are those in arrears of their shares of appointments; the last four with the District of Columbia, those in excess. This order (determined thus by the proportion of appointments already obtained) gives States their standing for consideration in future recruiting of the service. For instance, of the 36,593 apportioned appointments actually made, the State of California, on June 30, 1929, had received 344; it was entitled to 1,168. Five States and Territories had received lower percentages of appointments; all the others higher. California therefore stood sixth for future consideration. The order shown is not fixed. States are lowered or advanced in standing as they gain in appointments or lose by separations of their citizens from the service. This arrangement is designed to secure to States, through certifications of eligibles from the various registers, their just proportion of appointments. Exceptions to the apportionment requirements are discussed on page 28 of this report, with reasons for the inequality. A comparison of the figures in the first column of the table with those of the fourth column shows the losses or gains in appointments to States between June 30, 1928, and June 30, 1929. The figures in the last column represent the number of appointments each State or Territory would have if it had furnished enough eligibles to secure its full share of appointments. 133 TABLE 3.-Apportionment of appointments from July 15, 1883, to June 30, 1929 1 This total should be the same as the total of the preceding column, showing total appointments charged to each State and Territory. The last column shows the number of appointments to which each State or Territory is entitled of the whole number of appointments actually made and is the number each would have received if all the States and Territories had furnished sufficient eligibles with the necessary quali fications for the positions to be filled to permit an equal distribution of appointments. TABLE 4.-Showing for all branches of the classified service the number examined, the number that passed, the per cent that passed, the number appointed, the per cent appointed of those that passed, and the approximate number of competitive classified positions in the service during the several periods covered by the reports of the commission July 16, 1883, to Jan. 15, 1884. July 1, 1895, to June 30, 1896. 65.9 3,348 26. 2 July 1, 1897, to June 30, 1898. 10, 934 54. 1 1,570 14.4 July 1, 1898, to June 30, 1899. 40,000 20, 901 12, 749 July 1, 1901, to June 30, 1902 July 1, 1902, to June 30, 1903 18, 858 July 1, 1903, to June 30, 1904. July 1, 1904, to June 30, 1905 39, 961 July 1, 1905, to June 30, 1906. July 1, 1908, to June 30, 1909_ 72.3 12, 169 32.2 July 1, 1909, to June 30, 1910. July 1, 1910, to June 30, 1911. 127, 228 42, 750 July 1, 1911, to June 30, 1912. July 1, 1912, to June 30, 1913. 161, 846 59, 181 39,810 July 1, 1913, to June 30, 1914.. July 1, 1914, to June 30, 1915. 73.6 19, 606 25.7 165, 808 70, 734 July 1, 1915, to June 30, 1916. July 1, 1916, to June 30, 1917. July 1, 1917, to June 30, 1918. 50.6 July 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919.. July 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920. 41, 433 July 1, 1920, to June 30, 1921.. 39, 667 July 1, 1921, to June 30, 1922. 74, 977 43, 984 July 1, 1922, to June 30, 1923. July 1, 1923, to June 30, 1924. July 1, 1924, to June 30, 1925. July 1, 1925, to June 30, 1926 230, 021 89, 835 July 1, 1926, to June 30, 1927. July 1, 1927, to June 30, 1928 45, 080 39.0 July 1, 1928, to June 30, 1929. 241, 394 96, 276 Includes clerks, city carriers, village carriers, and employees in motor-vehicle service at classified post offices, rural carriers, fourth-class postmasters, and sea post clerks. On account of the abundance of eligibles remaining from the previous year, but few examinations were held; percentage upon the basis of these figures would, therefore, be deceptive. TABLE 4.-Showing for all branches of the classified service the number examined, etc.-Continued July 1, 1902, to June 30, 1903. July 1, 1916, to June 30, 1917. 20, 989 July 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919. July 1, 1917, to June 30, 1918.. 21, 196 July 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920.. 20, 538 8, 297 July 1, 1920, to June 30, 1921. 58.8 July 1, 1921, to June 30, 1922. 22, 310 4,269 46.4 15, 803 9,849 62.3 6, 044 61.4 8, 694 10.4 12, 512 7.9 10, 969 19.4 ? On account of the abundance of eligibles remaining from the previous year, but few examinations were held; percentage upon the basis of these figures would, therefore, be deceptive. TABLE 4.-Showing for all branches of the classified service the number examined, etc.-Continued The large increase in field-service figures for 1913 is due to the inclusions of navy yard artisans' positions to the number of about 16,000 in the competitive classified service. 11,365 fourth-class postmasters, appointed in 1914, and 18,238 in 1915, under the Executive order of May 7, 1913, requiring examinations at offices whose incumbents had not yet been appointed under the regulations, are not included in the table. |