TABLE 17.-Number of appointments in the departmental service, etc.-Continued.

TABLE 18.-Lowest grades reached for appointment from clerk-copyist and railway mail

registers.

[Where the percentage is not given it indicates that no appointment was made.]

TABLE 19.-Removals, resignations, and deaths in the classified departmental service, among the force appointed through examination and certification, for the year ended June 30, 1896.

TABLE 19a.-Showing by sex the number of appointments, separations, and reinstatements, and the number of persons remaining in the service of those appointed to the departmental service through examination, July 16, 1883, to June 30, 1896.

*Of this number 116 were special pension examiners, of whom 45 were reported as dropped at the expiration of term for which appointed; 70 of the 92 removals in the year ended June 30, 1889, were special pension examiners, 31 of whom were dropped at expiration of term for which appointed.

TABLE 19a.-Showing by sex the number of appointments, separations, and reinstatements, and the number of persons remaining in the service of those appointed to the departmental service through examination, July 16, 1883, to June 30, 1896-Continued.

July 16, 1883, to June 30, 1887..
July 1, 1887, to June 30, 1888..
July 1, 1888, to June 30, 1889.
July 1, 1889, to June 30, 1890..
July 1, 1890, to June 30, 1891..
July 1, 1891, to June 30, 1892.
July 1, 1892, to June 30, 1893.
July 1, 1893, to June 30, 1894..
July 1, 1894, to June 30, 1895.
July 1, 1895, to June 30, 1896...
July 16, 1883, to June 30, 1896..

Male.

Printers'

assistants.

Per cent.

Number.

Per cent.

Appointments.

July 16, 1883, to June 30, 1887..
July 1, 1887, to June 30, 1888..
July 1, 1888, to June 30, 1889.
July 1, 1889, to June 30, 1890..
July 1, 1890, to June 30, 1891..
July 1, 1891, to June 30, 1892.
July 1, 1892, to June 30, 1893.
July 1, 1893, to June 30, 1894.
July 1, 1894, to June 30, 1895..
July 1, 1895, to June 30, 1896.
July 16, 1883, to June 30, 1896..

*Of this number 70 were special pension examiners.
Of this number 36 were special pension examiners.

Remaining

in service.

Reinstatements.

Female.

TABLE 196.-Changes in the Indian service among those appointed through examination and certification.

TABLE 19c.-Changes in the force of the Government Printing Office during the year ended June 30, 1896, among those appointed through examination and certification.

TABLE 19d.-Changes in the Railway Mail Service during the year ended June 30, 1896, among those appointed through examination and certification.

Changes in the substitute force of the Railway Mail Service for the fiscal year ended June

30, 1896.

TABLE 20.-Showing appointments to and separations from the classified customs service during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896.