3. All positions in the island of Guam, in the island of Samoa, and in the Virgin Islands.20

4. One clerk actually on duty with each assistant paymaster of the United States Marine Corps.21

5. Artisan and supervisory artisan positions at the naval stations at Cavite, Olongapo, and Guantanamo.22

6. Laundrymen, dietitians, cooks, bakers, dishwashers, mess attendants, and other kitchen and dining-room employees at Naval Hospitals.23

VI. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.8

1. Wardens, chaplains, and physicians in the United States penitentiaries or prisons.

2. One clerk to each United States district attorney.

3. Examiners.

4. Any person employed as field deputy in the office of a United States marshal or whose chief duties are to serve process.

5. All positions and employments deemed by the Attorney General to be legal or confidential in their character, and which relate to temporary service or which grow out of appropriation acts committing to the Attorney General the execution of some purpose of the law and the expenditure of the funds therefor, but not creating specific positions.

1. The Assistant Attorney General for the Post Office Department.

2. One private secretary or confidential clerk to the Assistant Attorney General and one to the purchasing agent of the Post Office Department.

3. All employees on star routes and in post offices of the third and fourth classes, other than postmasters of the fourth class, except those in Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Samoa.23a

4. One auditor at the post office in New York City.

5. Clerks in charge of contract stations, appropriated for as such and so reported.

1. The Superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation.

2. Inspectors whose duties are of a confidential nature in the office of the Secretary of the Interior and who are appropriated for by the Congress." 3. Inspectors of coal mines in the Territories.

4. Temporary clerks employed in the United States local land offices to reduce testimony to writing in contest cases, not paid from Government funds. 5. Indians employed in the Indian Service at large, except those employed as superintendents, teachers, manual-training teachers, kindergartners, physicians, matrons, clerks, seamstresses, farmers, and industrial teachers.

8 See excepted positions in this department under the heading "The Entire Classified Service."

20 Amendment of Apr. 24, 1918.

21 Amendment of April 3, 1911.

22 Amendment of Feb. 4, 1913.

23 The effect of this order of July 9, 1920, is to include all civil positions at naval hospitals in the competitive classified service except those named in Schedule A, section V, paragraph 6.

23a Amendment of Oct. 15, 1912.

24 As amended Apr. 10, 1912.

6. Special commissioners to negotiate with Indians, as the necessity for their employment may arise.

7. One financial clerk at each Indian agency to act as agent during the absence or disability of the agent.

8. Physicians employed in the Indian Service and receiving not more than $720 per annum salary, who may lawfully perform their official duties in connection with their private practice, such employment, however, to be subjected to the approval of the commission.

9. All physicians employed as pension-examining surgeons, whether organized in boards or working individually under the direction of the Commissioner of Pensions. This paragraph shall not include medical examiners in the Pension Office.

10. Revoked.25

11. Six special agents of the General Land Office to investigate fraudulent entries and other matters of a criminal nature.

12. Consulting engineers of the Reclamation Service.

13. One confidential clerk and one record clerk to the Superintendent of St. Elizabeths Hospital.

14. One private secretary to the Director of the Geological Survey.

15. Superintendents of live stock, stockmen, stock detectives, and line riders in the Indian Service.

16. Special officers to assist in the suppression of the liquor traffic in the Indian Service and among the natives of Alaska.

17. Superintendent of Indian Insane Asylum, Canton, S. Dak.

18. Special agent for the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior.

19. One Indian trade supervisor.

20. Superintendents or officers in charge of national parks or reservations. 21. Chief law officer in the Reclamation Service.

22. Scouts, buffalo keepers, assistant buffalo keepers, and park rangers in the national parks.

23. One histopathologist temporarily engaged in research work at St. Elizabeths Hospital.

24. One specialist in higher education in the Bureau of Education.

25. The assistant to the Secretary in the office of the Secretary of the Interior."

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26. All employees of the Neopit Lumber Mills on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin.27

IX. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

1. (a) Agents employed in the field positions the work of which is financed jointly by the department and cooperating persons or organizations outside the Federal service.

See excepted positions in this department under the heading "The Entire Classified Service."

25 The exception from examination of five special pension examiners to investigate fraudulent and other pension claims of a criminal nature revoked by Executive order of Apr. 13, 1915.

26 Amendment of Apr. 21, 1911.

27 Amendment of Nov. 19, 1912. The Neopit lumbering project is a commercial enterprise conducted for the profit and sole benefit of the Menominee Tribe of Indians, and its operation is in competition with private enterprises of the same kind. It thus differs from any other enterprise conducted for the benefit of the Indians and it is believed that the work can be carried on more economically and therefore with more benefit to the Indians by excepting these employees from the operation of the civil-service rules.

(b) Local agents outside of Washington engaged in demonstrating in their respective localities the advantages of scientific methods of agriculture. Agents of this class must be representative farmers whose ability and personality make them leaders in their respective communities.

(c) Local agents, except veterinarians, employed outside of Washington in demonstrating in their respective localities the necessity of eradicating cattle ticks, scabies, hog cholera, and animal tuberculosis, and other contagious or infectious animal diseases.

(d) Agents employed in positions at such isolated places and requiring such knowledge of local conditions that they can not, in the opinion of the commission, be filled by open competitive examination.

(e) Agents employed intermittently for short periods outside of Washington, the aggregate individual length of whose service during any one calendar year shall not exceed six months, provided that employment under this provision shall not be for job work such as contemplated in section 4 of Rule VIII. The name of the employee, designation, rate of pay, and place of employment shall be shown in the periodical reports of changes; and in addition the aggregate individual service rendered and the distribution of such service during the year shall be shown in the report of changes at the end of each year or when the employee is separated from the service.

(f) Student assistants whose salary shall not exceed a rate of $300 a year each while employed.

(g) Agents employed in the field to be known as emergency demonstration agents whose appointments are made for the same purpose and in the same manner as those appointed under clause (a), except that they are not cooperatively financed, appointments of such agents to terminate not later than the beginning of the fiscal year following the termination of the present war between the United States and Germany."

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Prior consent of the commission must be obtained for the appointment of agent, under clause (d) above; and in making appointments under clauses (a), (b), (c), (e), and (f) a full report shall be submitted immediately by the department to the commission, setting forth the name, designation, and compensation of the appointee, and a statement of the duties to which he is to be assigned, and of his qualifications for such duties, in such detail as to indicate clearly that the appointment is properly made under one of the above clauses. The same procedure shall be followed in the case of the assignment of any agent to duties of a different character.

2. One statistical agent in each State and Territory where authorized by law. 3. Guards and field assistants for reconnoissance parties employed temporarily during the season of danger from fires or when special work requires additions to the regular forest force. They shall serve only so long as absolutely required and in no case beyond the usual field season. So far as the commission may deem practicable, such appointments shall be made from the registers of eligibles. 4. Special meteorological observers at stations in Alaska, in the West Indies, and in portions at foreign territory bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea.29

5. Carpenters (including cabinetmakers, joiners, and propeller makers), messengers, mechanics, skilled laborers, laboratory aid and engineers, and laboratory helpers employed in the Forest Service at the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, during the emergency period of the present war. They shall serve only so long as absolutely required and in no case longer than the duration of the war emergency.20

28 Amendment of Aug. 16, 1917.
29 Promulgated Oct. 10, 1916.
30 Promulgated Nov. 16, 1918.

X. THE PANAMA CANAL.

31

1. Revoked. (Included in paragraph 15, Subdivision I.) 31

2. One inspecting engineer and inspectors in the purchasing department.

XI. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.8

1. All persons temporarily connected with the field operations of the Bureau of Fisheries who are paid from lump appropriations for miscellaneous expense. No person employed in a position specifically provided for by statute at any station shall be regarded as excepted from examination hereunder.

2. Revoked.32

3. Revoked. (See paragraph 2, Subdivision III, Schedule B.)

4. Student assistants in the Bureau of Standards whose salary shall not exceed a rate of $300 a year each while employed, provided that no person shall be eligible for appointment as student assistant who is not a bona fide student pursuing a technical or scientific course at a high school or college of recognized standing. Appointments under this section shall not continue for a longer period than six months in any one year, except upon prior approval of the commission and then only in exceptionally meritorious cases. All appointments under this section shall be reported to the commission as made with a statement of the education of the appointee and the duties to be performed in each

5. Laborers-in-charge of light stations or minor lights or buoys whose duties require only a portion of their time in cases where it is not considered in the interests of the service to make selections from registers of eligibles."

6. The assistant to the Secretary in the office of the Secretary of Commerce. XII. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.35

1. Five experts to be members of an advisory board under the act of March 1, 1913, providing for the valuation of the property of carriers.

2. Five members of a board of engineers under said act.

3. One director under said act.

4. One supervisor of land appraisals under said act.

5. One chief accountant under said act.

XIII. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.8

1. Commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes to be appointed by the Secretary of Labor whenever, in his judgment, the interests of industrial peace may require it.

XIV. UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.36

1. One private secretary to the Chief of the Bureau of Efficiency.

1. One private secretary or confidential clerk to each member of the Exports Administrative Board.

8 See excepted positions in this department under the heading "The Entire Classified Service."

31 Amendment of Apr. 5, 1918.

32 All positions of shipping commissioner made competitive by Executive order of Jan. 7, 1918.

33 Amendment of June 12, 1917.

34 Promulgated Feb. 25, 1919.

35 Amendments of Apr. 23 and Oct. 29, 1913.

30 Amendment of Sept. 7, 1917.

37 Amendment of Oct. 3, 1917.

CLASSIFIED POSITIONS EXCEPTED FROM EXAMINATION FOR THE DURATION OF THE WAR BY EXECUTIVE ORDER.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

Employees in Bureau of Engraving and Printing. (Order of Jan. 15, 1918.)

WAR DEPARTMENT.

Civilian employees attached to military organizations sent to Europe. (Order of May 11, 1917.)

Inspection staffs heretofore employed by British, French,, Russian, and Italian Governments in munition factories. (Order of June 4, 1917.)

Civilian employees of commissions on training camp activities. (Order of Oct. 15, 1917.)

Employees in Gas Defense Service, except in Washington office. (Order of Feb. 14, 1918.)

Employees of plants commandeered by Ordnance Department, and employees and agents under contracts either for the construction or for the construction and operation of ordnance plants. (Order of Mar. 19, 1918.)

Employees of United States Government explosive plants. (Order of Mar. 19, 1918.)

Persons to be employed in Canada below the grade of inspector by Ordnance Department (amended by order of May 29, 1918, following). (Order of Dec. 5, 1917.)

Persons to be employed in Canada by Ordnance Department. (Order of May 29, 1918.)

Employees of Research Division, Chemical Warfare Service. July 19, 1918.)

(Order of

Nurses, cooks, and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers under the Army appropriation act for the year ending June 30, 1918. (Order of Jan. 24, 1918.)

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

Newspaper readers and translators selected by Postmaster General for filling confidential positions under the trading with the enemy act. (Order of Oct. 25, 1917.)

Postmaster General authorized to appoint as temporary carrier on a rural route during the absence of the regular carrier on military duty the person on whom the support of the dependents of the regular carrier devolves.

Dec. 1, 1917.)

Employees of postal censorship stations. (Order of Apr. 30, 1918.)

NAVY DEPARTMENT..

(Order of

Civilian employees of the commissions on training camp activities. (Order of Oct. 15, 1917.)

Experts and high-grade assistants employed under allotment from President from appropriation for national security and defense. (Order of Apr. 30, 1917.)