Manual of Examinations for the ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - Civil service |
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Age limit allowed application form appointment Arithmetic first grade Arithmetic third grade assistant inspector average board of examiners boiler cent certification character civil engineer Civil Service claims legal clerk Commission competitor Copying from plain Copying from rough days of seven Department Departmental Service Departmental Service.-Age limit desire dictation exercise district drawing electrical engineer Electrotype Entrance salary examination and relative exercise experience filed following-named furnished given grade subjects inches Indian Service indicate internal-revenue legal residence Letter writing October 14 October 21 Office Penmanship persons Philippine service physical plain copy positions post-office pounds practical questions punctuation questions and tests railway mail Rated on Form relative weights rough draft scale of 100 schedule second grade September 17 September 23 seven hours sheet speed Spelling and copying Stenographer Stenographer and typewriter Subjects of examination tion topographic draftsman Total Weights trigonometry typewriter United vacancy weights of subjects words writing first grade
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Page 24 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.
Page 106 - Statutes provides that 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 the civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices.
Page 20 - 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 20 - ... performance of the duties of the position to which he seeks appointment, or who has been guilty of a crime or of infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct, or who has been dismissed from the service for delinquency or misconduct within one year next preceding the date of his application...
Page 3 - Senate, three persons, not more than two of whom shall be adherents of the same political party, as civil service commissioners, and said three commissioners shall constitute the State Civil Service Commission.
Page 24 - 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 90 - Third division (comprising Maryland, excluding the Eastern Shore), Virginia (excepting Accomac and Northampton Counties), West Virginia, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia. Fourth division (comprising South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee).
Page 11 - Who has made a false statement in his application, or has been guilty of fraud or deceit in any manner connected with his application or examination, or has been guilty of crime or infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct.
Page 13 - Private secretaries or confidential clerks (not exceeding two) to the President or to the head of each of the eight Executive Departments.
Page 24 - This subject will embrace problems in fundamental rules, fractions, percentage (interest and discount), and analysis. [NB — In solving problems the processes should be not merely indicated, but all the figures necessary in solving each problem should be given in full. The answer to each problem should be indicated by writing