TABLE 16.-Showing, by States and Territories, those appointed through examination in the classified departmental service, exclusive of the Indian and Railway Mail services, during the year ended June 30, 1897-Continued. Agriculture-Bureau of Examination. TABLE 16.-Showing, by States and Territories, those appointed through examination in the classified departmental service, exclusive of the Indian and Railway Mail services, during the year ended June 30, 1897-Continued Stenography and typewriting. 540.00 Dec. 1. 1896 Watchman. do Agriculture-Weather Bureau. Navy-Construction and Repair, Philadelphia, Va. do Navy-Hydrographic Of fice. Interior-Geological Sur voy. Treasury-Custom-house, Richmond, Va. Fish Commission-Division Fish Culture. Treasury--Post-office building, Staunton, Va. Navy Steam Engineering, Newport News, Va. TreasuryCourt-house and post-otlice, Lynchburg, Va. Assistant meteorological observer. 720.00 Dec. 2, 1896 Janitor. p. d. 3.76 Dec. 17, 1896 Expert ship plumber. p. d. 3.76 p. d. 3.76 720.00 Dec. 17, 1896 TABLE 17.-Apportionment of appointments in the departmental service during the year ended June 30, 1897. METHOD OF MAKING THE APPORTIONMENT. The civil-service act requires that appointments to the public service in the departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained at the last preceding census, so far as the conditions of good administration will warrant. Section 5 of civil-service rule 8 excepts from such apportionment appointments in the Government Printing Office, printers' assistants, skilled helpers, and operatives in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, positions in the post quartermaster's office, the pension agency, and other local offices in the District of Columbia, and pages, messenger boys, and apprentices or students. The apportionment is applied only to appointments made since the civil-service act was passed, January 16, 1883. It is not possible to maintain the apportionment with exactness, as it is necessary |