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 CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT

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Department, Bureau, Office, or Commission Number Executive Office Civil Service Commission .... State Department Treasury Department ..... War Department Department of Justice ..... Post-Office Department Navy Department I'ositions registered under Navy Departmen regulations Interior Department Pension Examining Surgeons Department of Agriculture Department of Labor Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Interstate Commerce Commission. Smithsonian Institution .... Library of Congress Superintendent State, War, and Navy Building Total Departmental Service. t 21 62 122 15,163 14,967 704 8,465 1,252 5,063 9,713 4,120 2,241 95 183 142 292 39 25 62,669 General Statement Departmental Service Post-Office Service Government Printing Office Custom-House Service Internal-Revenue Service Total Executive Civil List, United States 62,669 104,811 2,852 5,103 3,282 178,717

Of this total number, 87,108 are in the classified service, that is to say, are appointed under the rules of the Civil Service Commission as approved by the President, and 91,609 are in the unclassified service. All officers known as Assistant Secretaries, Commissioners, Chiefs of Bureaus, Postmasters receiving $1000 or over in salary. Collectors of Customs, sub-Treasurers, Collectors of Internal Revenue, are appointed by the President, by and with the consent of the Senate. Chief Clerks, Disbursing Clerks, Chiefs of Division, and all the minor force of the dif- ferent Departments are appointed by the heads thereof, all the latter, excepting laborers and charwomen, being selected from the eligible lists of the Civil Service Commission. The method of appointing a clerk from such eligible lists is as follows : When a vacancy exists the officer having the appointment makes a requi- sition on the Civil Service Commission, in response to which the commis- sion furnishes him a certified list of three persons ranking highest in the competitive examinations and from the State or States next entitled to an appointment, under an apportionment according to population. From