Years of service.

Age.

United States Bureau of Efficiency. Form 8.

[Use typewriter-see instructions on back.]

Record of civil employee, July 1, 1916.

Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 8-4789-1

1. Name: (Surname first. Given name in full. For women write Miss or Mrs. before given name.)

2. Department:

3. Bureau, office, or service:

4. Designation of position:

5. Occupation (if not clearly shown by answer to question ):

Make no entries in this column.

6. Annual earnings:

8. Present rate of pay:

$..

7. Kind of appropriation:

9. Initial rate of pay:
$..

10. Total length of service (give the total of all U. S. Govt. service with the exceptions stated on the back of this card)

It is requested that this card be filled out by the department and carefully reviewed by the employee to insure the accuracy of the department record. Use typewriter to answer the questions on this card. If a typewriter is not accessible, have some person who writes clearly fill in the answers.

Make the entries concise. Be careful to use abbreviations correctly. The information called for on this card should be furnished as of July 1, 1916, for all employees who on that date were in the executive civil service (that is, the executive department and other executive establishments, with their field services), except temporary employees, part-time employees (such as post light keepers, tide observers, etc.), and persons employed under elistment contract or shipping articles. Persons appointed for a definite term of less than a year, including seasonal employees, should be excluded. Persons employed especially for a particular job, whose employment will normally cease when the job is finished, should be excluded (for example, mechanics and laborers employed in construction of public buildings and irrigation works). Include substitute post-office clerks, city carriers, and railway postal clerks, and also mechanics and laborers at navy yards and arsenals.

Question 4. The designation should be given as shown in the order making the last appointment or promotion.

Question 5. State, as specifically as possible in the space available, the profession, trade, or other line of work on which the employee is engaged, when practicable give not only the profession, science, etc., but the line of work within the profession, science, etc. Examples for persons engaged on scientific or technical work: Physicist (optics), mycologist (fruit diseases), paleontologist (vertebrates), drainage engineer. Examples for clerical employees: Stenographer and typewriter, correspondence clerk, file clerk, bookkeeper, roster and

time clerk, adding machine operator, copyist, general-utility clerk. If the designation of the position shows clearly the employee's occupation, write ** See 4."

Question 6. Give the total compensation for the last twelve months.

If an employee holds more than one position in the executive civil service, give the annual earnings for each position separately and also, in answer to inquiries 4 and 5, state the nature of each employment.

Question 7. State whether statutory ("Stat") or lump sum (“LS"). Question 8. If the employee receives an annual salary which is the same as the annual earnings stated above, answer "AS"; if the annual salary is different from the annual earnings give the salary followed by the abbreviation "PA.” If the employee is paid by the month, week, day, or hour, give the rate followed by the abbreviation "PM,” “ PW," "PD," or "PH," as the case may be. If he is paid by the piece, answer "Pcwrk"; if he is otherwise compensated, answer Fees," "Commission," Allowances," or Other," as the case may be.

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Question 9. Give the rate of pay at which the employee was originally appointed to the executive civil service.

Question 10. The reports made on this schedule will be used as a basis for computing the probable cost of a plan of retiring civil employees. Each employee's report will become a part of his record, on which his annuity will be based if a retirement law is enacted. It is therefore important to give the employee's total length of service, including all periods of employment in the executive civil service of the United States, whether temporary or permanent, whether in one or more branches of the service, and whether continuous or at different times, except service as a presidential appointee confirmed by the Senate and as a part-time employee or employee under enlistment contract or shipping articles. Service as a presidential appointee confirmed by the Senate should be included if the employee had a classified status during his service as a presidential appointee.

Do not include service as an employee of the Congress or the United States Courts or service as an officer or enlisted man in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps.

Question 12. Use “W” for white, "N" for Negro (including persons of mixed Negro blood), "I" for American Indian (including persons of mixed Indian blood). For other (yellow-brown) peoples, state whether "Chinese," Japanese," 'Filipino," or "Other."

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Question 15. Use "E" for elementary or grade; "H" for high; “C” for college or university; "P" for professional or technical; "O" for other. After each symbol enter in figures the numbers of years attended. Add in parenthesis the degree taken, if any, and the course of study if not shown by the degree or if no degree was taken. Examples, E8; H3 (business); H4 (technical); C5 (AB, AM, political science); C2 (architecture); P3 (LLB); P1 (law).

Question 16. State whether single ("S"), married ("M"), widowed (including widowers) ("W"); or divorced ("D").

Question 17. If the employee served in the Civil or Spanish war, Philippine or any Indian insurrection, or other military engagement of the United

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States. answer, "Civil," Spanish," "Phil," Indian," or "Other" (specify

ing); if not, answer "No."

Question 18. This answer must show the Congressional District and the State (under present Congressional apportionment) to which present appointment is charged. Example: Congressional district and State, 7 Virginia; County, Madison.

Question 19. For classified employees (not including those appointed without examination under special provisions of law or under Schedule A, Civil Service rules) answer "C." For persons in positions excepted from examination by law or Schedule A, Civil Service rules, answer "E"; for persons appointed by the President subject to confirmation by the Senate, answer "PC"; for other unclassified employees, such as unskilled laborers, answer "U."

For Presidential appointees and employees in excepted positions who have retained a prior classified status, add the word "Classified" to the abbreviations given above.

Question 20. If the employee is classified (unless he holds a position excepted from examination by law or by Schedule A, Civil Service rules) state whether he originally obtained his classified status by competitive examination ("CE"); noncompetitive examination ("NCE"); individual Executive order