It is ordered, That the officers, clerks, aud other employés of the several classified customs districts he, and they are hereby, arranged in the following classes:

Class A, all persons receiving an annual salary of less than $1,000 or compensation at the rate of less than $1,000 per annum.

Class B, all persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or more, but less than $1,200, or 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, but less than $1,400, or 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, but less than $1,600, or 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, but less than $1,800, or 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, but less than $2,000, or 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, but less than $2,500, or compensation at the rate of $2,000 or more, but less than $2,500 per annum. Class 6, all persons receiving an annual salary of $2,500 or more, or compensation at the rate of $2,500 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 laborer or workman, shall be considered as within this classification, and no person so employed shall without examination and certification under the civil service rules be assigned to the duties of a classified place.

It is further provided, That no person shall be admitted into any place in any of the classes above designated except in accordance with the civil service rules applicable to the customs service.

Statement showing the number of officers at the several ports in the classified customs service, (1) appointed by the President, (2) in the classified service, (3) below the classified service, (4) the number of places excepted from examination, and (5) the number of places authorized to be filled by non-competitive examination, June 30, 1890.

*NOTE.-In his letter transmitting the statement from which this table is made up, the Secretary of the Treasury says: "In view of the large number of temporary employés in the customs service who are paid by the hour, and the many and frequent changes, any statement showing the number of employés below the classified service at any particular period of time would be valueless, the reports of discontinuance not being immediate."

Excepted and non-competitive places are embraced within the classified service. A list of these places will be found at page 87-94, post. The second column is therefore inclusive of the numbers in the fourth and fifth.

The Classified Post-Office Service embraces those post-offices at each of which there are as many as fifty employés. All officers, clerks, and employés in these several postoffices not appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and not employed merely as laborers or workmen, are in the classified postal service and subject to the provisions of the civil-service law and rules. The classification of the post-office service, made on March 9, 1883, and now existing, is as follows:

Class 4, $1,800 and over per annum.

Class 3, $1,500 and less than $1,800 per annum.
Class 2, $800 and less than $1,400 per annum.
Class 1, less than $800 per annum.

The following was suggested in the fifth report as a suitable classification for this service and its adoption recommended:

It is ordered that all officers, clerks, carriers, and other employés at classified postoffices be, and they are hereby 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 by said commission or the appropriate board of examiners,

The following is a statement showing the number of employés at each of the fifty classified post-offices on June 30, 1890, except at Allegheny, Paterson, Portland, Oregon, and Scranton, which were classified August 3, 1891, and as to those offices the statement shows the numbers employed at the time of classification:

*Note.-Special delivery messengers are not treated as embraced within the classified service. The whole number of employés in the classified post-office service is 12,690.

The classified railway mail service embraces all superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, railway postal clerks, route agents, local agents, mail-route messengers, and other employés of the railway mail service. One general superintendent, one assistant general superintendent, printers, employed as such; clerks employed exclusively as porters in handling mail matter in bulk, in sacks, or pouches, and not otherwise, clerks employed exclusively on steam-boats and transfer clerks at junction points where not more than two such clerks are employed, are exempt from examination. All other places can be filled only by promotion, transfer, reinstatement, or examination, as described in the civil-service rules. Superintendents of mails at classified

post-offices (offices at which there are fifty or mere employés) must be selected from among the employés of the railway mail service.

The railway mail service classification was made by the Postmaster-General December 31, 1888, and is as follows:

"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 employés of the railway mail service be, and they hereby are, arranged in the following classes: Class one, all persons receiving an annual salary of $800 or less, or a compensation at the rate of $800 or less per annum.

Class two, 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 three, 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 four, 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 five, 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 six, 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 seven, 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 eight, 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 nine, 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."

Statement showing number of employés, by States, in the railway mail service.

The number of places excepted from examination December 31, 1890, was 91, which is a little more than 1 per cent. of the entire railway mail service.

The number of persons employed in the four branches of the classified service on June 30, 1890,* were as follows:

The classification of the Indian service April 13, 1891, added a little more than 700 places to the classified service.