TABLE 9.-Showing the number of appointments made from the different kinds of educational examinations to the Departmental Service, etc.—Continued.

TABLE 9.-Showing the number of appointments made from the different kinds of educational examinations to the Departmental Service, etc.—Continued.

a It was not possible to make absolute distinction in all cases between employees serving in Washington, D. C., and elsewhere. Under the Post-Office Department are included changes in the Post-Office Inspection Service. Under the Department of Commerce and Labor in Washington, D. C., are included all changes in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the majority of the employees of which are employed a part of the time in Washington, D. C.

b Includes all bureau employees of field services, although actually located in Washington, D. C.

c Changes in the unclassified service are not reported.

d There were several thousand appointments made for very brief periods, usually for less than thirty days, to registration positions in the absence of eligibles, registers of which
are made up on the first of each month. In most cases the persons appointed had filed papers and had been declared eligible, but were employed temporarily in preference to the
establishment of an eligible register in the middle of the month. These employees were either separated or regularly appointed, so that omission of statistics relating to their appoint-
ments is immaterial.
e Laborers and mechanics are employed under regulations contained in navy-yard order No. 23, revised. The number so employed during the year was 15,086, as shown in
Table 7.
ƒ There were other temporary appointments for short periods as follows: Forest Service,10,910; experiment stations, 526; Weather Bureau, 377; Bureau of Plant Industry, 473;
Bureau of Entomology, 7,781; Bureau of Animal Industry, 296; Public Roads, 6. These employments were either for mere laborers' work or to positions excepted under Schedule A;
those in the Forest Service under Subdivision VIII, paragraph 3, and in other bureaus under Subdivision I, paragraph 12. Each employment was for a brief period and many persons
were employed several times each.

TABLE 10.—Showing changes in the Departmental and Government Printing services during the year ended June 30, 1909—Continued.