scrrice during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1899—Continued. Total number of reinstatements above given, 479. NOTE.-Several certificates were issued for reinstatements which were never consummated, and about twenty-five certificates were issued on which no report of reinstatement was made during the fiscal year. Certificates were not issued to cover reemployments in the Engineer and Ordnance departments at large. Separations without delinquency or misconduct, being frequent on account of the changing conditions of the work and the seasons, were treated as furloughs rather than complete separations. The conditions upon which reemployment may be made in such cases is shown by the following minute of the Commission under date of February 25, 1899: Ordnance Department at Large.-Reemployment of a person separated when work is decreased or suspended, or a reduction of force is expedient due to exhaustion of funds, may be made within one rear from the date of separation without certificate of the Commission, provided the person's record was good; that he was regularly in the classified service, and his suspension was not caused by delinquency or misconduct. Such reemployments should be reported on Form 382, with proper notation under the heading "Reinstatement." These cases will be regarded rather as furloughs than as actual and final separations from the service requiring certificate of reinstatement. Table 22a.—Showing, by dates of separation, the number of reinstatements in the departmental service during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1899. In addition to the above, two persons-one separated in 1886, the other in 1891-were reinstated in the Department of the Interior, upon the statement that the cases had been thoroughly investigated and that the charges upon which their dismissals were based were not true, and one person separated in 1893 on account of reduction specifically required by law was reinstated in the same department. TABLE 23-Showing, by departments and branches of the service, the names of the persons salary of the positions to and from which trans appointed in the departmental service by transfer under Rule X, with the designation and ferred, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1899. |