Manual of Examinations for the ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 |
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21 for instructions allowed applicant must show application form apportioned service April 11 April 24 ARITHMETIC assistant attain an average average percentage Bureau Canal Zone certificate not required civil-service district civil-service examiners classified service clerk COPYING FROM PLAIN county officer's certificate Departmental Service Departmental Service.-Age District of Columbia domicile and county draftsman eligible for appointment eligibles are needed employed employees examination and relative examination be held Field Service filed forest given grade held beginning helpers including the medical Indian Service inspector instructions concerning domicile Junior engineer least 70 March 14 March 26 mechanical medical certificate nonapportioned service officer optional subjects Panama Canal Service PENMANSHIP persons Philippine Service PLAIN COPY positions practical questions relative weights scale of 100 second day service see sec slide rule stenographer and typewriter Subjects of examination superintendent tests tion TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE typewriter examination usual entrance salary Washington weights of sub weights of subjects
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Page 37 - ... answer, reasons for removal, and of the order of removal shall be made a part of the records of the proper department or office...
Page 80 - With the exception of the secretary, a clerk to each commissioner, the attorneys, and such special experts and examiners as the commission may from time to time find necessary for the conduct of its work...
Page 54 - Service for service in the field, at a salary of $4,000 a year, and vacancies as they may occur in positions requiring similar qualifications, unless it is found to be in the interest of the service to fill any vacancy by reinstatement, transfer, or promotion.
Page 156 - Third, appointments to the public service aforesaid in the departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained at the last preceding census.
Page 49 - Spelling. Spelling is dictated by the examiner. The words are written by the competitor in the blank spaces indicated on the first sheet of the examination. All words should be commenced with capital letters. The examiner pronounces each word and gives its definition as printed below.
Page 156 - Persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices.
Page 156 - Persons discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty who receive a rating of at least 65 are certified first for appointment.
Page 155 - The person selected for appointment shall be duly notified by the appointing officer, and upon accepting and reporting for duty shall receive from such officer a certificate of appointment.
Page 83 - February 1, 1905, the forest reserves were transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture and have since been known as the National Forests, administered by the Forest Service.
Page 161 - Mechanics and skilled tradesmen or laborers, employed upon construction or repair work in the field services, under such restrictive conditions that, in the opinion of the Commission, they can not, as a class, be appointed from registers of eligibles.