TABLE 2.-Showing the number examined for the Railway Mail Service, the number that passed and that failed, and the legal residence, average age, and education during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896. NOTE. In addition to the above, 109 persons were examined under the provisions of Railway Mail Rule V, section 1, clause (a), for transfer from local post-offices to the Railway Mail Service, of whom 79 passed, 21 failed, and 9 were canceled. The legal residences were distributed as follows: Illinois, 35 passed, 7 failed, 1 canceled; Indiana, 1 passed; Kentucky, 2 passed, 1 canceled; Louisiana, 1 passed, 1 failed; Massachusetts, 1 passed; Maryland, 4 passed, 7 failed; Michigan, 1 passed, 1 failed; Missis sippi, 1 passed; Missouri, 4 passed, 1 failed; New York, 26 passed, 3 failed, 7 canceled; Ohio, 1 passed; Pennsylvania, 1 passed, 1 failed; Washington, 1 passed. Of this number 30 were examined for the street-car service, of whom 28 passed, 1 failed, and 1 was canceled. TABLE 3.-Showing the number examined for clerk-copyist, the number that passed and that failed, and the legal residence, average age, and education during the fiscal year ended June 30, Passed. Education. 1896. Failed. Education. Examined. Legal residence. TABLE 4.-Showing the number who took special examinations for the departmental service, during the fiscal year the number that passed and that failed, the legal residence, average age, and cducation, ended June 30, 1896. TABLE 4.-Showing the number who took special examinations for the departmental service, during the fiscal year This table includes the following kinds of examination: Topographic draftsman, 7 passed, 10 failed; mechanical draftsman, 2 passed, 3 failed; draftsman, Treasury Department, 3 passed, 3 failed; draftsman, Agricultural Department, 1 male passed, 6 males and 2 females failed; mechanical draftsman, Light-House Board, 3 passed, 14 failed. Total. |