THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

UNITED STATES
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30

1919

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1919

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Report to the President..

Examinations and appointments.

Exceptions and examinations.

Temporary appointments.

Turnover in the civil service..

Adapting examinations to war needs.

The war period....

The district services.

Observance of the merit system...

Military preference..

Preference in reinstatement.

Conserving war workers..

Women war workers.

Deputy collectors of internal revenue.

Withdrawal of positions in the classified service..

Presidential postmasters.

Fourth-class postmasters.

Rural carriers ..

Political activity..

Needs of the commission..

Personnel of the commission.

Report of chief examiner..

APPENDIX.

Civil-service act....

Statutes bearing upon hours of labor..

Affecting the classified service....

Civil-service rules and legal decisions, with notes by the commission..

Schedule A, classified positions excepted from examination....

Schedule B, classified positions which may be filled on noncompetitive

examination.....

Classified positions excepted from examination by Executive orders....

Positions exempted from civil-service act and rules..

Regulations...

Appointment of first, second, and third class postmasters..

Publications of the Commission..

Historical register.....

Opinions of the Attorney General.

Executive orders:

Orders amending the civil-service rules.

Orders amending Schedule A......

Order amending Schedule B...

Exceptions from examination for duration of war....

Miscellaneous orders......

Orders excepting persons named from the requirements of the rules...

Appointments authorized without examination under section 10, Rule II...

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