TABLE 26.-Changes in the Railway Mail Service during the year ended June 30, 1897, among those appointed through examination and certification.

TABLE 26.-Changes in the substitute force of the Railway Mail Service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897.

TABLE 27.—Showing the number of clerks assigned to mail lines, the amount of mail handled, the number of errors in distribution, with the per cent of increase or decrease, for a period of ten years.

TABLE 28.-Changes in the Railway Mail Service from March 4, 1885, to June 30, 1897.

[Taken from statement of the general superintendent of the Railway Mail Service before the Senate Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment.-Senate Report No. 659, p. 692, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session.]

TABLE 29.—Changes in the force of the Government Printing Office among those appointed through examination and certification.

NOTE.-Education of appointees, Government Printing Service.--The following statement shows the kind of school in which the persons appointed during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, were educated, with numbers and percentage:

The following statement shows the age at time of making application of the persons appointed in the Government Printing Service during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897:

2

Reinstated.

Died.

2