655 5,232 74, 177

92 5, 104 24, 196 1,073 65, 284 799 5, 548 78, 631

2 Several hundred temporary appointments were made for brief periods in the Bureau of Mines in addition to those tabulated.

8 Other temporary appointments were as follows: Forest Service, 24,208; experiment stations, 615; Weather Bureau, 16; Bureau of Plant Industry, 629; Bureau of Entomology,
5,951; Bureau of Animal Industry 87; Bureau of Biological Survey, 128. These employments were either for mere laborers' work or to positions excepted under Schedule A; those
in the Forest Service under Subdivision IX, paragraph 3, and in the other bureaus under Subdivision I, paragraph 12. Each employment was for a brief period and in many cases
the same persons were employed and counted several times.

4 Includes all bureau employees of field services although actually located in Washington, D. C. Temporary employments in addition to those tabulated were made as follows:
Lighthouse Service, under Schedule A, Subdivision I, paragraph 12, 4,538; Bureau of Fisheries, under Schedule A, Subdivision XI, paragraph 1, 4,068, each person being counted
for each month employed; Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1,512.
5 Expert examiners not in the Federal service numbered 17. (Act of Mar. 14, 1911.)

Of the 40 appointments to excepted or noncompetitive positions 16 were appointed without examination in the absence of eligibles.

"In the Immigration Service in addition to those tabulated, interpreters, watchmen, guards, and public stenographers for brief periods in emergency, were employed temporarily to the number of 2,086.

TABLE 4.-Showing changes in the substitute force of the Railway Mail Service during the year ended June 30, 1914.

[Census of 1910.]

6 Office reestablished, Sept. 1, 1913.