TABLE 38.-Showing changes in the Internal-Revenue Service during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902-Continued.

ENTIRE CLASSIFIED SERVICE.

TABLE 39.-Appointments by examination, by reinstatement, and by transfer in the various branches of the competitive classified service, and percentage of number of competitive positions, by fiscal years.

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE AT WASHINGTON.

[The Railway-Mail and Indian services are included for each year, although they did not become a part of the Departmental Service until May 6, 1896.]

a Transfers from one post-office to another are not included in this table, as such transfers are usually exchanges of positions.

TABLE 39.-Appointments by examination, by reinstatement, and by transfer in the various branches of the competitive classified service, and percentage of number of competitive positions, by fiscal years—Continued.

TABLE 40.-Showing the number of positions in the different, branches of the classified service filled by original appointment, by transfer, and by reinstatement, whether in Washington, D. C., or elsewhere, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902, with the general educational requirements for original entrance to such positions.

NOTE.-Appointments and transfers to the Philippine service and transfers from one post-office

to another are omitted from the above table.

TABLE 41.-Showing number of competitive positions in the classified service, the number and percentage of removals from the classified service, and the number of removals from excepted positions, positions excluded in part, and unclassified, except for mechanics and workmen in the Navy-Yard Service and in the Engineer and Ordnance Departments, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902.

a During April, May, and June, 1902.
b Not including mechanics and skilled workmen.

NOTE.-The annual percentage of removals from March 4, 1893, to May 6, 1896, was 19.5 in the
Custodian Service and 15.9 in the Mint and Assay Service.