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stamps, one chief of finance division, one chief of registration division, one chief of correspondence division, one appointment clerk.

Assistant attorney-general, confidential clerk to the assistant attorney general, law clerk, agents and employés at postal-note, postage-stamp, postal-card, and envelope agencies, stenographer as confidential clerk to the chief post-office inspector, assistant superintendent of free delivery.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

Two chief clerks, (one in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury), one disbursing clerk, two private secretaries (one in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury). Assistant attorneys.

Pardon clerk and two law clerks.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

One private secretary to the Secretary, one private secretary to the Assistant Secretary, two clerks in disbursing office, one cashier, persons employed in the detective service of the Bureau of Animal Industry, one chief clerk of the Department, one chief clerk of the Bureau of Animal Industry, chiefs of division, superintendent of gardens and grounds, curator of museum, superintendent of seed room, and superintendent of folding room.

In the office of the Secretary: Private Secretary to the chief clerk, superintendent of grounds, and chief of the division of statistics; assistant chief of each of the following divisions: Of botany, of chemistry, of entomology, of forestry, of statistics, of economic ornithology and mammalogy, of pomology, of microscopy, of vegetable pathology, and of records and editing; the director of experi ment stations, the assistant director, and the private secretary to the director; one artist in the division of illustration and engraving, and one property clerk.

In the Bureau of Animal Industry: Chief of the Bureau, assistant chief, private secretary to chief In the Weather Bureau: The assistant chief of the bureau, the three professors of meteorology of highest grade, executive officer, superintendent of telegraph lines, and one property clerk.

Scientific or professional experts to be employed in investigations specially authorized by Congress, but not to include any persons regularly employed in that department, nor any persons whose duties are not scientific or professional, and who are not experts in the particular line of scientific or professional inquiry in which they are to be employed.

Wood engravers.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.

One confidential clerk, one chief clerk, one disbursing clerk.

Statistical experts and temporary experts.

COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES.

One confidential clerk, one disbursing agent, one chief clerk, the assistant in charge, Division of Scientific Enquiry, and the assistant in charge, Division of Fisheries.

Ichthyologist and editor, one scientific assistant, captains, officers, ship's writers and crews on vesvels of the Commission and pilots.

Scientific or professional experts to be temporarily employed in investigations authorized by Congress, but not to include any persons regularly employed in that Commission, nor any persons whose duties are not scientific or professional and who are not experts in the particular line of scientific inquiry in which they are to be employed.

PLACES AUTHORIZED TO BE FILLED BY NON-COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION UNDER GENERAL RULE III, SECTION 2, CLAUSE (d).

1. IN ALL THE DEPARTMENTS: Engineers, assistant engineers, pressmen, and compositors, and captains and lieutenants of watch.

2. In the Department of the Treasury:

In the office of the Secretary: Storekeeper, and locksmith and electrician.

In the office of the Supervising Surgeon-General of Marine-Hospital Service: Hospital steward, employed as chemist.

3. In the Department of the Interior:

In the office of the Secretary: Stenographer (to be confidential clerk to Secretary), nine members of the boards of pension appeals, returns office clerk, and six clerks to act as assistant disbursing clerks.

In the Bureau of Pensions: Superintendent of buildings and two qualified surgeons. In the Patent Office: Librarian, thirty-two principal examiners, and machinist. In the office of the Commissioner of Railroads: One bookkeeper.

In the Bureau of Education: Clerk of class four as librarian.

In the Geological Survey: In permanent force, librarian and three assistant photographers.

In temporary force, two assistant photographers.

4. In the Department of Agriculture:

In the disbursing office: Four clerks.

5. In the Post-Office Department:

In the office of the Assistant Attorney-General: Stenographer (to be confidential clerk to the Assistant Attorney-General).

6. In the Navy Department:

Assistants at branch hydrographic offices.

7. In the Department of Labor:

Special agents.

8. In the Commission of Fish and Fisheries:

Machinists.

TABLE SHOWING, APPROXIMATELY, THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYÉS IN THE DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE.

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The whole number appointed to June 30, 1893, under competitive examination was 3,424, and under noncompetitive examination, 325. Of the 3,749 thus appointed, about 3,600, or about 96 per cent, remain in the service. Of the 12,147 officers and employés in the Departments, about 30 per cent were appointed through the examinations.

2. THE CUSTOMS SERVICE.

The classified customs service embraces those customs districts in each of which there are as many as fifty employés, now the following: New York City, N. Y.; Boston, Mass.; Philadelphia, Pa.; San Francisco, Cal.; Baltimore, Md.; New Orleans, La.; Chicago, Ill.; Burlington, Vt.; Portland, Me.; Detroit, Mich.; and Port Huron, Mich.

All the officers, clerks, and employés in these several districts not appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or not employed merely as workmen or laborers, whose compensation is $900 per annum or over, are in the classified customs service and subject to the provisions of the civil-service law and rules.

As stated in the following classification of the customs service, all the officers, clerks, and employés in these several districts not appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or not employed merely as workmen or laborers, whose compensation is $900 per annum or over, are in the classified customs service and subject to the provisions of the civil-service law and rules.

The existing classification of the customs service is that made by the Secretary of the Treasury under date of March 17, 1883, and is as follows:

Class A, all persons not employed merely as laborers or workmen, receiving a compensation amounting to $900 or more, but less than $1,200 per annum.

Class 1, all persons receiving a compensation amounting to $1,200 or more, but less than $1,400 per annum.

Class 2, all persons receiving a compensation amounting to $1,400 or more, but less than $1,600 per annum.

Class 3, all persons receiving a compensation amounting to $1,600 or more, but less than $1,800 per annum.

Class 4, all persons receiving a compensation amounting to $1,800 or more, but not including any officer confirmed by the Senate.

All these classifications, except that of the customs service, are based on designation and duty, and not on compensation. Class A, the lowest class in the departmental classification, embraces all persons receiving an annual salary of less than $720 or a compensation at the rate of $720. Class A of the Civil Service Commission classification embraces all receiving a compensation at a rate less than $1,000. Class 1 of the postal service embraces all receiving a compensation of less than $800 per annum, and class 1 of the railway mail service, all receiving an annual salary of $800 or less, or a compensation at the rate of $800 or less per annum. Class A, the lowest class in the customs classification, on the contrary, includes all persons not merely employed as laborers or workmen receiving a compensation amounting to $900 or more, but less than $1,000 per annum. This is a peculiarly unfortunate classification for the customs service since the line drawn on compensation at any point is a very uncertain line, owing to the fact that compensation in the customs service is fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and may be raised or lowered at will. The reclassification proposed below will not at all interfere with the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury to change compensation whenever in his judgment the exigencies of the service require it, but will prevent the taking of a man or a place out of the classified service, or putting a man or a place into the classified service by a mere change of compensation. The Commission is unanimously and strongly of the opinion that the classified customs service should embrace all those in that service who are not Presidential appointees on the one hand, and are not employed merely as workmen or laborers on the other hand, without regard to the compensation paid to them.

The following language, taken from the Fifth Report, and repeated in the Eighth and Ninth, is again repeated, the conditions remaining the same:

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rily at $900. All below this line are outside and all above it are inside the classified service, regardless of designation or duty. At one custom-house night inspectors are in the classified service, because they are compensated at the rate of $900 or over, while at another custom-house they are outside, because compensated at a rate less than $900. The same is true with respect to certain other classes of employés besides night inspectors. But more than this. It may happen at any custom-house that employés in the same class are compensated at different rates, some at $900 or above, and others at less than $900. This is the case at the present time with respect to the grade of opener-and-packer at the port of New York. A certain number of the places in this grade must be filled by examination, and a certain number may be filled without examination, both classes performing the same duty and having the same designation. These facts, taken in connection with the further fact that the compensation of employés in the customs service is, as a rule, fixed, not by statute, but by the Secretary of the Treasury, who has an absolute discretion in the matter, furnish sufficient reasons for reclassifying this service on a different and more satisfactory basis."

The following has been suggested as a substitute for the present classification, and its adoption recommended:

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By direction of the President of the United States, and in accordance with the provisions of section 6 of the act entitled “An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883,

It is ordered, That the officers, clerks, and other employés of the several classified customs districts be, and they are hereby, arranged in the following classes:

Class A, all persons receiving an annual salary of less than $1,000 or compensation at the rate of less than $1,000 per annum.

Class B, all persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or more, but less than $1,200, or compensation at the rate of $1,000 or more, but less than $1,200 per annum. Class 1, all persons receiving an annual salary of $1,200 or more, but less than $1,400, or compensation at the rate of $1,200 or more, but less than $1,400 per annum. Class 2, all persons receiving an annual salary of $1,400 or more, but less than $1,600, or compensation at the rate of $1,400 or more, but less than $1,600 per annum. Class 3, all persons receiving an annual salary of $1,600 or more, but less than $1,800, or compensation at the rate of $1,600 or more, but less than $1,800 per annum. Class 4, all persons receiving an annual salary of $1,800 or more, but less than $2,000, or compensation at the rate of $1,800 or more, but less than $2,000 per annum. Class 5, all persons receiving an annual salary of $2,000 or more, but less than $2,500, or compensation at the rate of $2,000 or more, but less than $2,500 per annum. Class 6, all persons receiving an annual salary of $2,500 or more, or compensation at the rate of $2,500 or more per annum.

It is provided, That no person who may be appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and that no person who may be employed merely as a laborer or workman, shall be considered as within this classification, and no person so employed shall without examination and certification under the civil service rules be assigned to the duties of a classified place.

It is further provided, That no person shall be admitted into any place in any of the classes above designated except in accordance with the civil-service rules applicable to the customs service.

Places excepted from examination at the several ports within the classified customs service, under section 5, Customs Rule II, and under Special Customs Rule No. 1.

BALTIMORE, MD.

Office of the collector: Two deputy collectors, one cashier, one auditor, one assistant cashier, one private secretary.

Office of the naval officer: One deputy naval officer.

Office of the surveyor: One deputy surveyor, one private secretary.

BOSTON, MASS.

Office of the collector: Three deputy collectors, one auditor and disbursing clerk, one cashier, one secretary and chief clerk, one assistant cashier.

Office of the naval officer: One deputy naval officer, one assistant deputy naval officer,

Office of the surveyor: One deputy surveyor.

Office of the appraiser: One private secretary.

BURLINGTON, VT.

Office of the collector: Four deputy collectors, two deputy collectors to assist as cashiers at subports.

CHICAGO, ILL.

Office of the collector: One cashier, one clerk and auditor, one confidential secretary, two deputy collectors, one assistant cashier, one chief disbursing clerk.

DETROIT, MICH.

Office of the collector: One cashier, one deputy collector.

NEW ORLEANS.

Office of the collector: Two deputy collectors, one auditor, one cashier, one private secretary, one assistant cashier.

Office of the naval officer: One deputy naval officer.

Office of the surveyor: One deputy surveyor.

NEW YORK.

Office of the collector: Nine deputy collectors, one private secretary (only one allowed), one cashier, one acting disbursing agent, one auditor, one assistant cashier to collector.

[Under Special Customs Rule No. 11.]

One bookbinder.

Detectives employed exclusively as such.

Office of the naval officer: One deputy naval officer, one comptroller and acting deputy naval officer.

Office of the surveyor: Three deputy surveyors, one private secretary.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

Office of the collector: One deputy collector, one deputy collector and cashier, one assistant cashier (one allowed), one secretary and confidential clerk.

Office of the naval officer: One deputy naval officer, one private secretary.

Office of the surveyor: Two deputy surveyors.

Office of the appraiser: One confidential clerk.

PORT HURON, MICH.

Office of the collector: Two deputy collectors, one deputy collector and cashier.

No places excepted.

PORTLAND, ME.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

Office of the collector: One auditor, three deputy collectors, one clerk and cashier, one assistant cashier.

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