10. Five special pension examiners to investigate fraudulent and other pension claims of a criminal nature. 11. Six special agents of the General Land Office to investigate fraudulent entries and other matters of a criminal nature. 12. Consulting engineers of the Reclamation Service under the Geological Survey. 13. One confidential clerk and one record clerk to the superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane. 14. One private secretary to the Director of the Geological Survey. 15. Superintendents of live stock, stockmen, stock detectives, and line riders in the Indian Service.a 16. Special officers to assist in the suppression of the liquor traffic in the Indian Service.a 17. Superintendent of Indian Insane Asylum, Canton, S. Dak.a 18. Special agent for the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior.a 19. One Indian trade supervisor.a 20. Superintendents or officers in charge of national parks or reservations.a 21. Chief law officer in the Reclamation Service. 22. Scouts, buffalo keepers, assistant buffalo keepers, and park rangers in the national parks. 23. One histopathologist temporarily engaged in research work at the Government Hospital for the Insane.b VIII. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.C 1. Agents, experts, and student assistants for temporary duty employed in making investigations and furnishing information for the department, as provided by law, or under the direction of the head of the department, which agents, experts, and student assistants shall be borne on the rolls as such and be actually engaged in the duties for which they were appointed, and whose payment has been authorized by law, provided that the salary of such student assistants shall not exceed a rate of $300 per annum each while employed. An agent is one who is employed to act for or to represent the Department of Agriculture in some locality or territory outside of Washington, and whose duties are of such a temporary or special character or whose compensation is so low as to render it impracticable to adequately fill the position by open competitive examination. An expert is one who has such rare, peculiar or unusual skill or experience in some department or branch of knowledge as to render his qualifications essentially different from or superior to those required of any classified employees in competitive positions and not likely to be possessed in an equal or superior degree by other persons who might be available for appointment. 2. One statistical agent in each State and Territory where authorized by law. 3. Guards, guides, cooks, packers, teamsters, choppers, and skilled laborers employed temporarily during the season of danger from fires, or when other special work requires additions to the regular reserve force. They shall serve only as long as absolutely required and in no case more than six months in any one year, except in the case of forest guards, whose employment shall not be so limited. So far as the Commission may deem practicable such appointments shall be made from the registers of eligibles for forest rangers. IX. ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION.C 1. All officers and employees in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission upon the Isthmus of Panama except those who are to perform the duties of clerk, bookkeeper, stenographer, typewriter, surgeon, physician, trained nurse, or drafts • Excepted under provisions of executive order of October 9, 1908. (See p. 128, Twenty-fifth Report.) Amendment of March 23, 1910. c See excepted positions in this department under heading "The Entire Classified Service." man. Appointments to clerical positions on the Isthmus of Panama paying less than $75 in gold per month may be made without examination under the civil-service rules. No person appointed to the service on the Isthmus of Panama otherwise than through competitive examination, or by transfer or promotion from a competitive position, shall be transferred to a competitive position, unless he was classified by the executive order of November 15, 1904, in a position which was then and is at the time of the proposed transfer in the competitive service.a 2. One inspecting engineer and inspectors in the purchasing department. X. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.b 1. All persons temporarily connected with the field operations of the Bureau of Fisheries who are paid from lump appropriations for miscellaneous expense. No person employed in a position specifically provided for by statute at any station shall be regarded as excepted from examination hereunder. 2. Shipping commissioners whose compensation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, was, as shown by the records in the Department of Commerce and Labor, $2,500 or over.c SCHEDULE B. CLASSIFIED POSITIONS WHICH MAY BE FILLED UPON NONCOMPETITIYE EXAMINATION. The noncompetitive examinations authorized under Rule III, clause 2, shall consist of the same tests of fitness as those applied to other persons seeking appointment through competitive examination. I. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. 1. Superintendent, teacher, manual training teacher, kindergartner, physician, matron, clerk, seamstress, farmer, and industrial teacher, in the Indian Service at Large when filled by Indians. 2. Messenger, assistant messenger, and messenger boy, in the Office of Indian Affairs when filled by Indians. 3. Any competitive position at an Indian school when filled by the wife of a competitive employee at that school. II. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. 1. Not exceeding twenty special agents under the division of prosecutions and ten inspectors under the hours of service division, subject to such evidence of qualification as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe after consultation with the Interstate Commerce Commission: Provided, That should the Civil Service Commission at any time have reason to believe that the privilege so afforded is abused it may revoke it. 2. Inspector of safety appliances. • Amendment of January 12, 1906. See executive order of May 31, 1906, page 92, Twenty-third Report. See excepted positions in this department under heading "The Entire Classified Service." c The following ports are included in the provisions of this order: New York, San Francisco, Port Townsend, and Boston. CLASSIFICATION OF THE EXECUTIVE CIVIL SERVICE. The classification of the civil service, based upon section 163, Revised Statutes, was adopted by each head of a department and government establishment on direction of the President on June 9, 1896. It arranges officers and employees, other than mere laborers and persons whose appointments are confirmed by the Senate, in classes according to annual salary or compensation, as follows: A. Less than $720. B. $720 or more and less than $840. 2. $1,400 or more and less than $1,600. 3. $1,600 or more and less than $1,800. 4. $1,800 or more and less than $2,000. 5. $2,000 or more and less than $2,500. 6. $2,500 or more. The classification further provides that no person appointed as a laborer without examination under the rules shall be assigned to work of the same grade as that performed by classified employees, and no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the rules until he shall have passed an appropriate examination before the Commission and his eligibility has been certified to the appointing officer by the Commission. The Railway Mail Service has a different classification prescribed by section 1402, Revised Statutes, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1903, and the classification of the Post-Office Service is prescribed by an act of March 2, 1907 (34 Stat., 1205). REGULATIONS GOVERNING CERTAIN BRANCHES OF THE CLASSIFIED SERVICE OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON. Regulations prescribing methods of appointment and promotion have been adopted with the concurrence of the heads of the departments concerned, for the Ordnance Department at Large, the Engineer Department at Large, national military parks, the Quartermaster's Department at Large, except the Schuylkill Arsenal for which there are special regulations, Bureau of Fisheries, Subtreasury Service, Mint and Assay Service, Life-Saving Service, Light-House Service, Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, Reclamation Service, Government Hospital for the Insane, Indian Service, Irrigation and Allotment services, Geological Survey, and the Coast and Geodetic Survey in relation to persons employed on vessels. Regulations governing promotions have been applied to the Railway Mail Service, Navy Department, Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Government Printing Office, promotion of taggers to stock examiners in the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture, and to the custom-houses at New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oreg.), and Port Townsend. Regulations relating to the appointment and promotion of foremen, mechanics, and laborers are in force at the navy-yards. These regulations may not be modified without the approval of the Commission. 64 The regulations for the Engineer Department at Large provide for a central board in the department at Washington which has the control and direction of the local boards, and such details connected with the application of the civil-service rules as do not require the action of the Chief of Engineers or the Secretary of War. This board communicates directly with the Commission. The local engineer boards in the several districts prepare lists of eligibles for the various noneducational positions for which applicants may register. The regulations for several of the other branches of the classified service provide a system by which applicants may be registered by local boards of examiners made up of officers in the branch of the service affected, who rate applicants upon the elements of age, experience, and physical condition, and certify eligibles for appointment. The promotion regulations in general provide for the relative rating of employees on the basis of their services. In the marking, the character, quality, and quantity of work, and the office habits of the employee are considered. Federal positions in the Philippines, Porto Rico, and Hawaii, and other insular possessions are filled in the same manner as positions of the same classes in other localities outside of Washington. Positions in the insular service of the Philippines are regulated by an act and rules promulgated by the Philippine government, and those in Porto Rico by an act of the Porto Rican legislature in effect January 1, 1908. Insular positions in Hawaii are not classified. The regulations referred to, unless mentioned under the publications of the commission, below, are issued by the departments concerned. PUBLICATIONS OF THE COMMISSION. In addition to this pamphlet and the annual reports, of which twenty-six have been issued and may be consulted at public libraries, the Commission issues the following publications: MANUAL OF EXAMINATIONS. A manual of examinations published semiannually, in January and July, containing information as to the dates and places of examinations, and the character and scope of each and also showing the numbers of persons examined, passed, failed, and appointed, respectively, as well as the prospects for appointment in the departmental service; INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS. Information for applicants for the railway mail clerk examination (Form 1407); a for the stenographer and typewriter examination (Form 1424);b instructions to applicants for the Post-Office, Customs, Internal-Revenue, Custodian, Subtreasury, and Mint and Assay services; b information for persons desiring to compete for appointment to the position of rural carrier (Form 1494); a for applicants for the position of mere unskilled laborer (Labor Forms 1 and la); instructions to applicants for mechanical trades and other noneducational examinations in the Departmental and Indian services (Form 1250); instructions to applicants for mechanical trades and other noneducational positions in the Quartermaster's Department at Large (Form 1697); information concerning conditions of employment in the competitive classified service under the Isthmian Canal Commission; concerning examinations held on other than scheduled dates (Form 376); the examination for female skilled laborer in the Government Printing Office and printer's assistant in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Form 1419); examinations for entrance to the Steamboat-Inspection Service • This form can be supplied only when an examination for the position in question has been announced. Requests for this pamphlet should be addressed to the secretary of the civil-service district in which the position sought is located. 43845-10-5 (Form 1405); instructions to applicants for the Post-Office, Customs, and Custodian services in Porto Rico; the Post-Office, Customs, Internal-Revenue, and Custodian services in Hawaii; the Customs Service in Alaska (Form 1537); information concerning admission to the grade of surfman in the Life-Saving Service (Form 396); admission of deaf-mutes to examination (Form 1786); regulations governing appointment of fourth-class postmasters (Form 1752). MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. Information for boards of examiners concerning applications, examinations, and appointments (Form 131); unauthorized appointments (Form 1774); concerning reinstatements (Form 126); concerning transfers (Form 305); information and extracts from statutes and executive and departmental orders concerning political activity and political assessments (Form 1236); information concerning veteran preference (Form 1481); concerning classification, assignment, and appointment of laborers (Form 1725); removals (Form 505); the holding of state or municipal offices by government employees (Form 1648); temporary appointments (Form 1729); instructions to district secretaries and other persons conducting investigations for the Civil Service Commission (Form 1698); brief of prosecutions in connection with civil-service examinations (Form 1775). REGULATIONS. General regulations governing the United States civil-service district (Form 1452); regulations governing promotions and transfers in the Customs Service at all ports except New York (Form 1556); regulations governing promotions, transfers, and restorations in the Customs Service at the port of New York (Form 1522); regulations governing the appointment of unskilled laborers in the federal offices outside of Washington, D. C. (Form 1782); regulations governing the appointment of unclassified laborers in the departments at Washington, D. C.; regulations for the Isthmian Canal Service on the Isthmus of Panama; general regulations governing promotion from positions below the grade of clerk or copyist-Departmental Service. For regulations governing other branches of the classified service see page 66, ante. Copies of the Philippine act and rules can be had by addressing the Commission. ARCHIVES OF THE COMMISSION. In aid of persons interested in promoting the civil-service reform movement, historical investigators, and others who may desire to know what material is to be found in the archives of the Commission bearing upon subjects concerning which they desire information, it may be said that the library of the Commission contains fairly complete collections of congressional documents, departmental and other publi-' cations relating to executive patronage and the civil service, as well as collections of bills, speeches, and newspaper clippings, and of the reports and other publications of state and city civil-service commissions. The records of the Commission are largely administrative in character, and their interest is chiefly personal, but they are of value in the study of executive patronage and the application of remedies for abuses in the exercise of the appointing power. They are complete since the establishment of the Commission in 1883, are provided with a subject index, and accessible for historical purposes. They embrace the minutes of the proceedings of the Commission in thirty-one volumes, a card record of everyone who is or has been in the classified service, with a history of his service, volumes containing specimens of all questions used in the examinations, reports of hearings before committees of Congress, and files of correspondence with the President, the executive departments, and the general public. |