TABLE 3.-Changes in the executive civil service during the year ended June 30, 1914. [Changes in detail in the Post Office, Customs, and Internal-Revenue services are shown in Tables 6, 9, and 10.]

1 It is not possible in all cases to make absolute distinction between employees serving in Washington, D. C., and elsewhere. 2 26 appointments and 37 separations of temporary mere unskilled laborers are not included.

3 Includes Military Academy headquarters divisions, Pay Department at large, and War Department employees in the Philippines.

4 In the Engineer Department at large several thousand appointments are made for very brief periods, usually less than 30 days, to registration positions, in the absence of eli-
gibles, the registers being made up on the first of each month. In most cases the temporary appointees had filed papers and had been declared eligible, but were employed tempo-
rarily in preference to the establishment of an eligible register in the middle of the month. These employees are either separated or regularly appointed, so that the omission of sta-
tistics relating to their temporary appointment is immaterial. Changes in the unclassified service are not reported.

5 The total navy-yard force is estimated at 20,000, of which number about one-fifth, or 4,000 are mere unskilled laborers.

6 Post-office inspection headquarters, envelope agencies, etc.

7 Of the 2,595 rural carriers, 302 were appointed to new routes.

8 National parks and reservations, miscellaneous Indian service in Oklahoma, under Five Civilized Tribes, etc.

TABLE 3.-Changes in the executive civil service during the year ended June 30, 1914-Continued.