TABLE 4.-Showing changes in the executive civil service during the year ended June 30, 1913. [Changes in detail in the Post Office, Customs, and Internal-Revenue Services are shown in Tables 6, 9, and 10.]

1 It is not possible in all cases to make absolute distinction between employees serving in Washington D. C., and elsewhere. Including service in Navy Department under Rule III, sec. 3, until it was revoked on Dec. 7, 1912, by Executive order. 3 Most of the unclassified appointments and separations were of persons employed under the Thirteenth Census act, outside of the provisions of the civil service act and rules. • Two of these employees on the rolls of the Civil Service Commission are in nonstatutory positions and are paid from an appropriation for the establishment of an efficiency rating.

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1 Changes in the unclassified service of the Special Agents' Division and of the Board of General Appraisers are not reported to the Commission.
2 Includes the Military Academy, headquarters divisions, Pay Department at large, and War Department employees in the Philippines.
3 "The Quartermaster's, Subsistence, and Pay Departments of the Army are hereby consolidated into and shall be known as the Quartermaster Corps of the Army."-(Army
act of Aug. 24, 1912, 37 Stat. L., p. 591.)
4 In the Engineer Department at larges everal thousand appointments are made for very brief periods, usually for less than 30 days, to registration positions, in the absence of
eligibles, the registers being made up on the first of each month. In most cases the temporary appointees had filed papers and had been declared eligible, but were employed tem-
porarily in preference to the establishment of an eligible register in the middle of the month. These employees are either separated or regularly appointed, so that the omission of
statistics relating to their temporary appointment is immaterial. Changes in the unclassified service are not reported.

5 Positions of artisans and supervisory artisans were classified by order of December 7, 1912. The total navy yard force is estimated at 20,000, a reduction of 5,000 from a year ago.
The number of unskilled laborers is estimated at one-fifth of the total force, or 4,000. Under the terms of the order of December 7, 1912, no occupant of the position of artisan could
receive a competitive status "unless he has established his capacity for efficient service or has been examined and found qualified by the labor board and is recommended for classi-
fication by the commanding officer under whom he is employed."

10 National parks and reservations, miscellaneous Indian service in Oklahoma, under Five Civilized Tribes, etc.

11 The invalid pension act of Aug. 17, 1912, abolished the pension agencies after Jan. 31, 1913 (37 Stat. L., p. 312).

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

13 Other temporary appointments were as follows: Forest Service, 20,664; experiment stations, 420; Weather Bureau, 72; Bureau of Plant Industry, 568; Bureau of Entomology 7,814; Bureau of Animal Industry, 101; Bureau of Chemistry, 2; Bureau of Biological Survey, 143. These employments were either for mere laborers' work, or in positions excepted from examination under Schedule A; those in the Forest Service under subdivision IX, paragraph 3, and in 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 many times.

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