APPOINTMENTS. HOW APPOINTMENTS TO ALL GOVERNMENT OFFICES-CIVIL, MILITARY, AND NAVAL-ARE MADE, SHOWING BY WHAT AUTHORITY, IN WHAT MANNER, THE TESTS REQUIRED, AND THEIR TERM OR TENURE OF OFFICE. document-room attached to folding-room,| folders, pages, laborers, and cloak-room men. APPOINTED BY THE POSTMASTER. Assistant postmaster, messengers, and laborer. COMMITTEE CLERKS. Clerks and assistant clerks to committees of the House are appointed by the chairmen of the committees, respectively. APPOINTED BY THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL, SUBJECT то APPROVAL BY THE SPEAKER. Chief engineer, assistant engineers, firemen, and laborer. All engineers and others engaged in ventilating the House. GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO CLERKS IN THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS. The clerks in the Executive Departments are arranged in six classes, distinguished as the $900 (per annum), $1000, first ($1200), second ($1400), third ($1600), fourth ($1800) classes. No clerk can be appointed in either of the four classes-i.e., first, second, third, or fourth-until he or she has been examined and found qualified by a board of three examiners, to consist of the chief of bureau, or office, into which such clerk is to be appointed, and two other clerks, to be selected by the head of the Department. The disbursing clerks authorized for each Department must be appointed by the heads of the Departments, respectively, from the list of clerks of the fourth class ($1800 per annum). BY THE PRESIDENT ALONE. Interpreters and consular clerks. BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE. Unlimited Term. Chief clerk, chiefs of bureaus, translator, clerks of the several classes, messengers, watchmen, laborers, and other employés of the Department. Vice-consuls-general, vice-consuls, deputy consuls-general, vice-commercial agents, deputy consuls, and deputy commercial agents are appointed under regulations prescribed by the President in the following manner: by the Secretary cipal consular officer, approved by the of State, on the nomination of the princonsul-general, or if there be no consulgeneral, then by the minister. Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service. First Comptroller. Second Comptroller. Commissioner of Customs. First Auditor. Third Auditor. Second Auditor. Fourth Auditor. Sixth Auditor. Register. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Deputy Commissioner of Customs. Deputy Second Auditor. Deputy Third Auditor. Deputy Fourth Auditor. Assistant Register. Deputy Comptroller of the Currency. Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Superintendent of the Life-saving Ser vice. MINT OFFICERS. RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE No person will be originally appointed to a higher grade than Cadet, or second assistant engineer; nor until he shall have passed a physical and professional examination. The physical examination shall precede the professional, and if a Superintendent, assayer, coiner, melter candidate be condemned physically, he and refiner. CARSON, NEVADA. DENVER, COLOrado. will not be examined further. A candidate for an appointment as second assistant engineer must be not less than twenty-one nor more than thirty Assayer in charge, melter and refiner. years of age; he must be of good moral NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Superintendent, assayer, coiner, melter and refiner. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. Superintendent, assayer, coiner, engraver, melter and refiner. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. Superintendent, assayer, coiner, melter and refiner. ASSAY OFFICES. Assayer, Boise City, Idaho. Superintendent, New York, New York. Assayer, New York, New York. Melter and refiner, New York, New York. Assayer and melter, Charlotte, North Assayer in charge, Helena, Montana. Assistant collectors of customs. Supervising inspectors of steam ves sels. The members of the National Board of Health, three of whom are officers detailed from Departments. REVENUE MARINE SERVICE. Captains. First lieutenants. Third lieutenants. Chief engineers. character and correct habits; he must have worked not less than eighteen months in a steam-engine manufactory, or else have served not less than that period as an engineer on board a steamer provided with a condensing engine, and must produce favorable testimonials from the director or head engineer as to his ability; he must be able to describe and sketch all the different parts of the marine steam-engine and boilers, and explain their uses and mechanical operation, the manner of putting them in operation, regulating their action, and guarding against danger. He must be well acquainted with arithmetic, rudimentary mechanics, write a fair legible hand, and have some knowledge of the chemistry of combustion and corrosion. Candidates who exhibit the highest degree of practical experience and professional skill will be given the preference, both in admission and promotion. Any person producing a false certificate of age, time of service, or character, or making a false statement to a board of examination will be dropped immediately. CADETS. 1. No person will be appointed a Cadet in the Revenue Marine Service who does not furnish satisfactory evidence of good moral character, and that he is of sober and correct habits. 2. Candidates must be not less than eighteen nor more than twenty-five years of age, and no person will be appointed whose age is not within these limits. 3. Candidates will be required to pass a satisfactory examination as to their physical qualifications, by a board of medical officers, to be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury. They must be of robust constitution, physically sound and well formed, and not be less than five feet in stature. 4. The candidates must pass a satisfactory examination before a board of officers, to be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, in reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography, and English grammar. All the examinations, except in reading, will be written. 5. A standard for proficiency will be fixed, and if candidates fall below such standard, they will receive a second and final examination in the subjects on which they fail. Deficiency in any one of the subjects on the second examination will be sufficient to cause the rejection of the candidate. 6. Candidates who pass the required standard in both the physical and mental examinations will be eligible for appointment, and will be placed upon a list in the order of the proficiency exhibited by them in their examinations respectively, and from this list names will be selected for appointment to all existing vacancies, and from time to time to fill such as may occur before the convening of another examining board. It is to be observed, however, that the passing of the required standard does not guarantee a candidate's appointment, as the list may not be exhausted before the convening of a subsequent examining board. 7. Upon receiving appointments, candidates will be required to take the prescribed oath of office. 8. Cadets will be required to provide themselves with the proper uniform, and to wear the same on board the vessels to which they may be assigned, and upon all occasions of duty. 9. Cadets will be appointed for a probationary period of two years, during which time they will be required to pursue such course of study as may hereafter be prescribed, and perform such duties on board ship, or elsewhere in the service, as may be required of them, and at the end of two years they will be examined for promotion to the grade of third lieutenant. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION. In the physical examination any one of the following defects will be sufficient cause for rejection, viz. : Decided cachexia, or predisposition. Defects of either of the extremities or articulations, causing permanent inefficiency. Unnatural curvature of spine, or other deformity. Impaired vision, or chronic disease of the visual organs. Apoplexy, epilepsy, or tendency to convulsions. Chronic affection or disease of the ears, chronic nasal catarrh, polypi, or serious tonsillar enlargement. Tubercular or strumous diathesis. Chronic cardiac affections. Hernia, sarcocele, hydrocele, varicocele, stricture, fistula, or hemorrhoids. Large varicose veins of lower limbs. Besides the above, any other physical deformity or abnormal condition, of such character as to incapacitate the candidate for the performance of his duties, will be cause for rejection. A careful discretion will be exercised in the consideration of the foregoing conditions, and no candidate who is likely to prove physically efficient will be rejected on the physical examination. The following is the general scope of the examination required, to wit: ARITHMETIC.-Notation and Numeration.-Candidates will be required to explain the Roman and Arabic systems of notation, and to write in words and express in figures any given number. Compound Numbers.-Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of compound numbers, embracing denominations of money, weights, and measures in common use; the number of cubic inches in a gallon; reduction of differences in longitude to their equivalents in time, and vice versa. Properties of Numbers.-Including resolution into prime factors, finding greatest common divisor and least common multiple, the divisibility of numbers, etc. Fractions.-Common and decimal fractions, with methods of contracted multiplications and divisions of the latter, and reasons for inverting divisor, cancellation of common factors, etc., in processes involving the former. Ratio and Proportion, and Percentage, Interest and Discount. - Including explanation of the nature of each, and the solution of examples. Mensuration and Evolution.-Including measurement of surfaces and volumes, and extraction of square and cube roots. Practical Questions.-Under this head, problems involving processes under the various subjects treated of in arithmetic will be given for solution, as a test of the power of analysis of candidates. A thorough knowledge of arithmetic will be insisted upon in all cases. of land and water; the direction and position of mountain chains, and locality of principal peaks; location and course of rivers and their tributaries; position of seas, gulfs, bays, and lakes; position and boundaries of political divisions of land, and location of their capital cities; position and direction of peninsulas and situation of capes; straits, sounds, channels, and canals; position and political connection of important islands; locality of cities of historical, political, or commercial importance; character and general directions of coast lines. BY THE PRESIDENT, GRAMMAR.-The examination in this branch will embrace the whole of English grammar, with every subject of which candidates must be familiar; nouns, their classification, person, number, gender, case, and, under these, the rules for the formation of the plurals of proper names, and of irregular nouns, the different uses of the three cases, etc.; articles, and their uses; adjectives, and the rules for their comparison, etc.; numerals, and their classification; classification of pronouns, peculiarities in the use of personal pronouns ; the uses of compound personal pronouns; the double uses of relatives, and the distinctions in their application; compound relative pronouns, interrogatives, adjective pronouns, and their classification; verbs, their classification and conjugation; the distinctions between transitive and intransitive; regular and irregular verbs, and their principal parts; auxiliary verbs and their uses; impersonal verbs, voice, moods, tense, number, By and with the Advice and Consent of and person, etc.; participles, and their the Senate, for a Term of Four Years. uses; adverbs, with rules for use, and Assistant Treasurers at Baltimore, their classification; conjunctive adverbs; Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Chiprepositions, interjections, and conjunc-cago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; New tions; rules of construction; correction of false syntax. Parsing, of which the following is a sample: Noun.-Class, gender, person, number, and case, and its relations. Article. Definite or indefinite, and what it qualifies. Adjective.-Class, comparison, noun which it qualifies. Pronouns.-Whether personal, relative, interrogative, or adjective; gender, person, number, and case; if relative, its antecedent; if adjective, the noun it qualifies. Verb.Class, form, principal parts, mood, tense, person, number, subject. Adverb.-Class, comparison, relation. Preposition. Words related by it. Interjection. Kind of emotion expressed. Conjunction. Class, words or sentences connected. READING.- Exercise in reading aloud will be required. WRITING. Candidates will be required to write a letter of not less than two pages, as a test of penmanship and composition. SPELLING.-A written exercise in spelling, of not less than thirty words, will be required, and failure to pass the minimum standard in spelling will be sufficient cause of itself for rejection of the candidate. By and with the Advice and Consent of BY THE PRESIDENT, Orleans, Louisiana; New York City, ifornia. Collectors, surveyors, and naval officers of customs. BY THE PRESIDENT ALONE. The Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREAS URY. The chief clerk, disbursing clerks, chiefs of divisions, chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, assistant chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the supervising architect, assistant supervising architect and chief clerk, clerks of the several classes, fourth. third, second, first, $1000, and $900. Every application for a clerkship in the Treasury Department should be made, in the handwriting of the applicant, to the Secretary of the Treasury. It must be dated, and must state: (1) Applicant's name in full; (2) place and date of birth; (3) legal residence (including the town or municipality as well as the State or Territory), and how long it has been |