STATISTICAL TABLES.

NOTE a.-There have been published in the last three reports of the Commission tables showing the number of applications filed from the different States and Territories for the Departmental service, and in the last report a table furnishing similar information in regard to the railway mail service. Those tables served no purpose except to show the excess of applications over examinations and are therefore omitted from this report. NOTE b.-In addition to the examinations reported in the following tables there were examined for the railway mail service forty persons, and for the Departmental service sixty-six persons, whose papers, after being marked, were canceled because they failed to perfect their applications as required by the rules.

There were also four examinations held in Washington, D. C., at which only supplementary subjects were taken and which are therefore not included in the table showing the total number of examinations held. Of the total number of examinations shown in the tables, 85 were held in Washington and 244 in other places.

NOTE C.-The following table shows the per cent. of competitors in Washington who passed and who failed to pass the copyist, clerk, and special examinations, and the per cent. of those in other places who passed and who failed to pass. The ratio remains almost exactly as it was the preceding year. A larger per cent. pass the clerk and copyist examinations outside of Washington than in Washington, but the reverse is true in regard to the special examinations.

Total.