LIMITED EXAMINATION UNDER CLAUSE 4 OF RULE 7. First subject same as in examination under Clause 1. SECOND SUBJECT. DIRECTION.-In case the examiners think that any of the following examples may have been seen by the applicants, they can in the first strike out a line of the figures, and, in the others, change some of the figures without altering the grade of the question. Question 1. Add the following: 64379582 Question 2. Find the difference between the following numbers: 905127038624 28597346 91731625 52613719 26598421 53679713 83576532 62985274 605138759928 79365497 Question 3. Subtract ten thousand one hundred dollars and six cents from one hundred thousand and seven dollars and five cents, giving all the figures required in the operation. Question 4. Multiply 7089 by 983. Question 6. When board costs three dollars and seventy-six cents per week what will it cost from March 15 to July 4th? Question 7. How many times is 17 cents contained in ten thousand dollars and ten cents? Question 8. There are seven hundred and three dollars to be divided between nine men and three boys. The boys are to have twenty-five dollars and five cents each, the residue is to be equally divided among the men, what is each man's share? Give all the figures involved in the solution. APPENDIX No. 6. The following tables show the statistics of the examinations in the three branches of the classified service. These considerations should be borne in mind in considering them: 1. That the ratio of those who fail to those who succeed is likely to be much less when the grade of questions shall be better understood; for the more incompetent will see they have little chance of succeeding. Besides, a better class has appeared at each succeeding examination. 2. It was necessary in the outset to examine a large number to make sure of having those competent to fill every variety of vacancy. Many appointments may be now made without further examinations. The excessive number examined from the District of Columbia was the result of conforming to a rule having an unanticipated effect, which has been since amended. 3. In regard to education, the records of the Commission are defective in not showing how long those who have been at an academy or college have remained at either, nor how many are graduates. If a person has been but a month at an academy or college, he is put under the head of those institutions. The habit of calling so many schools academies, and so many academies colleges, helps to make this unavoidable classification the more misleading. Table showing numbers of examinations, number of those examined, passed, appointed, age, education, &c., in the Departmental service, Washington. Table showing numbers of examinations, number of those examined, paesed, appointed, age, education, &c.-Continued. Table showing numbers of examinations, the number examined, and of those who passed, were appointed, their age, education, &c., in the customs service. Table showing numbers of examinations, of those examined, and of those who passed, were appointed, their age, education, &c., in the post-offices. No. of applicants Aver examined. age age. cated. of 65 per cent. or over. Number appointed. 213512432228 132:27000755 2 1 15 4 12 29 ... 11 3 20 27 10 44 27 7 57 91 Males. Females. Carriers. 4 16 49 5 13 33 3 33 69 1 10 23 15 16 7 11 2 3 9 6 9 3 615 35 108 31 42 10 2 4 28 13 4 45 20 20 4 8. 1 2 *There were also 76 persons examined for porters, of whom 41 passed, and of that number 22 have been appointed. The whole number examined for the departmental, customs, and postal service has been 3,542. The number passed at 65 per centum or over has been 2,044. The number examined having only a common school education has been 2,272. The number appointed to the service from July 16, 1883, to January 16, 1884, of those examined has been 516. The average age of all those examined has been thirty-one years. APPENDIX No. 7. Statement showing (1) the number of officers in the several Executive Departments at Wash ington appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, (2) the number not subject to confirmation, whose compensation exceeds $1,800 per annum, and hence not embraced in the classified service, and (3) the number excepted from examination under Rule XIX. |