TOGETHER WITH A MANUAL OF INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTION
FOR PERSONS DESIRING PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AT THE SEAT OF
GOVERNMENT OR ELSEWHERE, SHOWING WHO IS ELIGIBLE

FOR APPOINTMENT, THE MODE AND FORM OF APPLI-
CATION, BY WHOM APPOINTMENTS ARE MADE
OR CONTROLLED, THE TENURE OF OFFICE,
ETC., ETC., ETC.

COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES BY

J. H. SOULÉ, Editor of the "United States Record and Gazette.”

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1881

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881,
BY J. H. SOULÉ,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

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