June 2, 1902. Appointment to existing vacancy in position of assistant commissioner of immigration at the port of New York allowed without examination. June 21, 1902. Alexander C. Caine, examiner in the Department of Justice, allowed to be trans ferred to position of clerk of class 4 for designation as disbursing clerk in the Department of Justice. July 25, 1902. Miss Ellen W. Fitzsimons was separated from the position of clerk at $1,000 by reason of the abolition of the office of the Commissioner of Railroads on June 30, 1902. Her reinstatement for the purpose of transfer to the Post-Office Department was requested, and in view of the cause of her separation the President ordered that the requirements of section 11, Rule X, be waived. July 30, 1902. Appointment to existing vacancy in position of clerk at $1,000 per annum in the War Department allowed without examination, the person so appointed to be detailed for duty at the White House. August 12, 1902. In a request for the reinstatement in the Government Printing Office of John T. Heck, who had been out of the service for more than one year, the requirement of Rule IX in regard to the year limit was waived. III. ORDERS OF CLASSIFICATION BY PRESIDENTS, BY HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND offices, AND BY CONGRESS. In the Fourth Report of this Commission, pages 102 to 120, the history of the several classifications of the United States civil service is brought down to the early part of 1888. On page 207 is given a summary of the classifications in the several Departments and in the Customs and the Postal services. On February 2, 1888, President Cleveland promulgated the "Amended CivilService Rules," to take effect on March 1, 1888. In a letter of March 21, discussing some of the provisions of these rules, he said: *** Difficulties which now embarrass the execution of the civil-service law would be obviated if there was a better and uniform classification of the employees in the different departments. The importance of this is entirely obvious. The present imperfect classifications, hastily made, apparently with but little care for || uniformity, and promulgated after the late Presidential election and prior to the installation of the present Administration, should not have been permitted to continue until this time. * * * I wish the Commission would revise these classifications and submit to me a plan which will, as far as possible, make them uniform, and which will especially remedy the present condition which permits persons to enter a grade in the service in the one department without any examination which in another departinent can only be entered after passing such examination. This, I think, should be done by extending the limits of the classified service rather than by contracting them. Accordingly, the Commission submitted a uniform classification for the Departmental Service, which was approved by the President and adopted by the several departments on the following dates in 1888: Treasury, Navy, Post-Office, and Interior Departments, June 29; War and Agriculture Departments, June 30; State Department, July 3; Department of Justice, July 5. The language of the classification order was as follows: DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE. By direction of the President of the United States, and in accordance with the third clause 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 employees of this Department be, and they are hereby, arranged in the following classes, viz: Class A.-All persons receiving an annual salary of less than $720, or a compensation at the rate of less than $720 per annum. Class B.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $720 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $720 or more, but less than $840 per annum. Class C.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $840 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $840 or more, but less than $900 per annum. Class D.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $900 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $900 or more, but less than $1,000 per annum. Class E.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or more, or a 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, or a compensa tion 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, or a compensation at the rate of $1,400 or more, but less than $1,600 per annum. 314 Class 3.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,600 or more, or a 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, or a 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, or a compensation at the rate of $2,000 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 messenger, laborer, workman, or watchman (not including any person designated as a skilled laborer or workman), shall be considered as within this classification, and no person so employed shall, without examination under the civil-service rules, be assigned to clerical duty. It is also ordered, That no person shall be admitted into any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules, in any of the classes above designated, until he shall have passed an appropriate examination prepared by the United States Civil Service Commission and his eligibility has been certified to this Department by said Commission. The War Department added in the second paragraph, after the word "Department," the words "including those employed in the offices of the several depot quartermasters," and the Post-Office Department, in the same place, the words "including post-office inspectors and the agents and employees at postal note, postage stamp, postal card, and envelope agencies." The President, in an Executive order dated June 28, 1888, included the Department of Labor under the same classification, to take effect on July 1 of that year. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. The classification of the Civil Service Commission was originally promulgated on March 1, 1888, as follows: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D. C., March 1, 1888. In the exercise of authority vested in the President by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third (1753) section of the Revised Statutes to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each applicant in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of the service into which he seeks to enter, I hereby direct that the officers, clerks, and other employees of the United States Civil Service Commission, now authorized or that may hereafter be authorized by law, shall be arranged in the following classes, viz: Class A.-Including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of less than $1,000 per annum. Class B.-Including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,000 or more, but less than $1,200 per annum. Class 1.—Including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,200 or more, but less than $1,400 per annum. Class 2.—Including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,400 or more, but less than $1,600 per annum. Class 3.-Including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,600 or more, but less than $1,800 per annum. Class 4.-Including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,800 or more, but less than $2,000 per annum. Class 5.—Including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $2,000 or more per annum. No person who is appointed to an office by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or by the President alone, and no person who is to be employed merely as a laborer or workman, or as a watchman, shall be considered as within this classification. And it is ordered, That the United States Civil Service Commission thus classified, as provided by clause 2 of Departmental Rule I of the civil-service rules approved February 2, 1888, and in force on and after the date hereof, shall be considered a part of the classified Departmental Service, and the rules applicable thereto shall be in force therein. GROVER CLeveland. The classifications of the Postal Service (in effect since March 3, 1883) and the Customs Service (in effect since March 26, 1883) were not changed at this time. Subsequent classifications follow, in the order in which made. CLASSIFICATION OF RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., December 31, 1888. 1. By direction of the President of the United States, and subject to and in accordance with section 1 of an act entitled "An act to designate, classify, and fix the salaries of persons in the Railway Mail Service," approved July 31, 1882, and in accordance with the third clause of section 6 of an act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883, It is ordered, That all superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, railway postal clerks, route agents, local agents, mail-route messengers, and other employees of the Railway Mail Service be, and they hereby are, arranged in the following classes: Class 1.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $800 or less, or a compensation at the rate of $800 or less per annum. Class 2.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $900 or less, but more than $800, or a compensation at the rate of $900 or less, but more than $800 per annum. Class 3.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or less, but more than $900, or a compensation at the rate of $1,000 or less, but more than $900 per annum. Class 4.—All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,200 or less, but more than $1,000, or a compensation at the rate of $1,200 or less, but more than $1,000 per annum. Class 5.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,400 or less, but more than $1,200, or a compensation at the rate of $1,400 or less, but more than $1,200 per annum. Class 6.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,600 or less, but more than $1,400, or a compensation at the rate of $1,600 or less, but more than $1,400 per annum. Class 7.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,800 or less, but more than $1,600, or a compensation at the rate of $1,800 or less, but more than $1,600 per annum. Class 8.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $2,000 or less, but more than $1,800, or a compensation at the rate of $2,000 or less, but more than $1,800 per annum. Class 9.-All persons receiving an annual salary of more than $2,000, or a compensation at the rate of more than $2,000 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 (not including any person designated as skilled laborer or workman), shall be considered as within this classification; and no person so employed shall, without examination under the civil-service rules, be assigned to the duties of a classified place. It is also ordered, That no person shall be admitted into any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he shall have passed an appropriate examination prepared by the United States Civil Service Commission and his eligibility has been certified to this Department by said Commission. DON M. DICKINSON, Postmaster-General, CLASSIFICATION OF INDIAN SERVICE. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, By direction of the President of the United States, and in accordance with the third clause of section 6 of an act entitled “An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883, It is ordered, That all physicians, school superintendents and assistant superintendents, school-teachers, and matrons in the Indian service be, and they are hereby, arranged in the following classes, without regard to salary or compensation: Class 1.-Physicians. Class 2.-School superintendents and assistant superintendents. Class 3.-School-teachers. Class 4.-Matrons. Provided, That no person who may be required by law to 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 or in connection with any contract schools, shall be considered as within this classification, and no person so employed shall be assigned to the duties of a classified place. It is further ordered, That no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an appropriate examination under the United States Civil Service Commission and his or her eligibility has been certified to by said Commission or the appropriate board of examiners. JOHN W. NOBLE, Secretary. EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 13, 1891. I approve of the within classification, and if you see no reason to suggest any further modification you will please put in force. BENJ. HARRISON. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. CLASSIFICATION OF COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D. C., May 5, 1892. In the exercise of the authority vested in the President by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, It is ordered, That the office of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries be, and the same is hereby, classified as a part of the classified Departmental Service, and for the purpose of applying the civil-service rules thereto the officers, clerks, and other employees of said Commission are hereby arranged in the following classes, viz: Class A.-All persons receiving an annual salary of less than $720, or a compensation at the rate of less than $720 per annum. Class B.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $720 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $720 or more, but less than $840 per annum. Class C-All persons receiving an annual salary of $840 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $840 or more, but less than $900 per annum. Class D.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $900 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $900 or more, but less than $1,000 per annum. Class E.-All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or more, or a 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, or a 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, or a 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, or a 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, or a 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, or a compensation at the rate of $2,000 per annum. 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 messenger, laborer, workman, or watchman, shall be considered as within this classification, and no person so employed shall be assigned to the duties of a classified place. Provided further, That no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an appropriate examination under the United States Civil Service Commission and his or her eligibility has been certified to by said Commission. BENJ. HARRISON. FREE-DELIVERY POST-OFFICES. The extension of the classified service on January 5, 1893, to all free-delivery post-offices was effected by a change in Postal Rule I, printed at page 240, ante. |