2. EXAMINATIONS FOR WHICH SPECIAL PHYSICAL TESTS ARE

REQUIRED.

Assistant microscopist (eligibles only).-Physically sound and good eyesight.

Attendant, Government Hospital for the Insane.-Physically sound.

Cadet, Revenue-Cutter Service.-Physically sound, 5 feet 3 inches in height.

Carrier, post-office.-Five feet 4 inches in height, 125 pounds in weight.

Clerks in the 53 old post-offices.-Five feet 4 inches in height, 125 pounds in weight.

Custom-house service.-All positions.

Hospital steward, Marine-Hospital Service.-Physically sound.

Inspector of boilers, local and assistant.-Physically sound and able to enter a boiler through a manhole 9 by 15 inches.

Inspectors of hulls, local and assistant.-Physically sound; free from color-blindness.

Internal Revenue Service.-All positions.

Marine engineer, Marine-Hospital Service.-Physically sound.

Railway mail clerk.-Five feet 4 inches in height, 125 pounds in weight, and physically sound in every particular.

Sanitary inspector, Marine-Hospital Service.-Physically sound.

Surfman.-Weigh between 132 and 200 pounds; not less than 5 feet 6 inches in height.

[For Appendix D to Report of Chief Examiner, see Part VII, Statistical Information, pp. 427-465, post.]

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PART III.

CIVIL-SERVICE ACT, RULES, CLASSIFICATIONS, ETC.

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CONTENTS.

Civil-service act.

Sections of Revised Statutes and of Statutes at Large relating to the executive civil service

Civil-service rules

Employment of labor-Executive order adopting navy-yard regulations....
Presidential warning against the use of official positions to control political

movements

Executive order relating to the holding of State or municipal offices by per-
sons holding civil offices under the Federal Government...
Substitutes can not be appointed in the Executive Departments. Opinion of
the Comptroller. Leaves of absence

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109

112

124

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128

Changes in civil-service rules from May 6, 1896, to June 1, 1898

130

Removals, etc., from March 4, 1893, to May 6, 1896, in some of the branches of the service classified on the latter date

135

Character of the extensions of the classified service made on May 6, 1896..
Extent of the executive civil service and its classification...

136

140

History of exceptions from examination....

Growth of the merit system since 1883.....

Extensions of the classified service made since January 16, 1883.

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153

Growth of the merit system in States and cities....

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