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 Form I0O8. 
 
 June, 1909. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
 
 UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. 
 
 Your communication of recent date is herewith returned, and 
 your attention is invited to the paragraph or paragraphs below 
 checked thus (V), containing information / relative jto the subject 
 of your inquiry. V" i / / [■ / 
 
 1. Legal residence is a question of fact and is one which the 
 Commission can not determine for an applicant. Legal residence 
 does not require continuous bodily presence, but refers to the place 
 at which the applicant, if a voter, is legally entitled to exercise the 
 right of suffrage. Applications for examinations for positions in the 
 departments at Washington, D. C., except for the nonapportioned 
 positions, must show that the applicant has been a legal resident of 
 the county in which he claims legal residence for not less than six 
 months next preceding the date of his application. 
 
 I A married woman can have no other legal residence than that of 
 tier husband. 
 
 A woman separated from her husband may, for the purpose of 
 filing an application for examination, claim legal residence other 
 than that of her husband, but she must furnish a sworn statement 
 on Form 1643 of the facts on which her right to a separate legal resi¬ 
 dence is based. Legal residence is a question of fact, and the Com¬ 
 mission can not determine for any applicant what his or her legal 
 residence is, but will decide in each case whether the evidence pre¬ 
 sented establishes the claim. The legal residence of minors is the 
 same as that of the parents or guardians. 
 
 2. The position concerning which inquiry is made is not fided 
 as the result of examination held by this Commission. Address the 
 
 * r] ^ Department in which employment is desired. 
 
 ries relative to the duties of various positions, salaries, 
 1 be made of the head of the Department or office in 
 wnicn employment is desired, unless such information is contained 
 inted matter furnished by the Commission, 
 examination is pending for the position concerning which 
 is male, and applications are not received for such ex ami- 
 iLtil it is announced. Full information as to any examina- 
 iven in connection with its announcement. 
 
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 5. No information concerning an examination other than that 
 contained in the public announcement can be given. 
 
 6. Persons who are not in the classified service can not be given 
 noncompetitive examinations to test their fitness for appointment 
 to positions which may be filled as the result of competitive exami¬ 
 nations. 
 
 7. The position to which reference is made is filled by the transfer 
 or promotion of persons who are already in the classified service. 
 
 8. Examinations as a rule are not held for a particular Depart¬ 
 ment but for positions in the general departmental service. 
 
 9. Unless applicants comply with the regulations as set forth in 
 the announcements of examinations, they can not be examined. 
 
 10. The information requested will be furnished if the name of 
 the examination is given. 
 
 11. Appointments to the positions of rural agent (formerly route 
 inspector and special agent) in the Rural Free Delivery Service 
 and post-office inspector (unless made by reinstatement) are made 
 by the transfer or promotion of persons who are already in the 
 classified service, serving in or under the Post-Office Department 
 or in the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, upon 
 their passing noncompetitive examinations, which are held by the 
 Commission upon the request of the Postmaster-General. For 
 information relative to appointment to these positions application 
 should be made to the Postmaster-General, Washington, D. C. 
 
 12. A person who passes an examination will not be allowed a 
 reexamination for any position covered by the same examination 
 until approximately one year after the date of the former exami¬ 
 nation whether or not the competitor has been three times certified. 
 A person who lias been notified of his failure to pass in an examina¬ 
 tion may, upon filing a new application in due time, enter the next 
 examination when held. 
 
 13. An application filed for one semiannual series of examina¬ 
 tions, or for a specially announced examination, will not be good for 
 any other examination, whether the applicant be examined or not. 
 
 14. No examinations are held and no appointments are made in 
 the United States to fill ordinary clerical positions in the post-office, 
 custom-house, and internal-revenue services and in trades positions 
 in the Philippines. Thus far no difficulty has been experienced 
 in filling such positions through the appointment of Filipinos and 
 of Americans resident in the Philippine Islands. It is useless for 
 persons in the United States to seek appointment to positions in 
 the Philippine civil service unless they have professional, t&jh 
 nical, or scientific qualifications, or special clerical ability, with 
 special qualifications, such as those of a stenographer and type¬ 
 writer, bookkeeper, etc. 
 
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 15. Applicants for any position in connection with the schools of 
 Porto Ixico or Hawaii should address the Commissioner of Education, 
 San Juan, P. R., or the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Honolulu, 
 Hawaii, respectively. 
 
 16. Whenever free delivery is to be established at a post-office 
 a board of examiners, composed of employees of such office, is organ¬ 
 ized, which board furnishes to applicants application blanks and 
 information relative to the examination which is held preliminary 
 to the establishment of free delivery. For information relative 
 to appointment to positions in post-offices prior to the establish¬ 
 ment of free delivery application should be made to the Postmaster- 
 General, Washington, D. C. 
 
 17. Applicants. for examination for rural letter carrier should 
 apply to the postmaster at the office on the route upon which free 
 delivery is to be established or to the United States Civil Service 
 Commission, Washington, D. C., for information as to when an 
 examination will be held. 
 
 18. Persons who desire appointment to the positions of mail 
 weigher and porter in the Railway Mail Service should apply and 
 take the examination for railway mail clerk. Appointment to the 
 position of sea postal clerk is usually made by transfer or promotion 
 from the Railway Mail or Post-Office Service, and application should 
 be made to the Postmaster-General, Washington, D. C. 
 
 19. Applicants will be duly notified of averages as soon as papers 
 are rated, and letters of inquiry are useless and will not hasten the 
 information sought. 
 
 20. The Commission does not furnish railway mail guides or . 
 maps of the railway mail divisions. These may be obtained from 
 publishing houses or booksellers. The Commission does not fur¬ 
 nish reading address cards. 
 
 21. Applicants for appointment to the position of cadet in the 
 Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., midshipman in the Naval 
 Academy at Annapolis, Md., or cadet in the Revenue-Cutter Service 
 should address the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, 
 or the Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C., respectively. 
 
 22. Applicants for appointment to positions in the Consular 
 Service should address the Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. 
 
 23. Applicants for positions in the Ordnance Department at 
 Large, War Department, for which no educational test is given, 
 should address the secretary of the local board of examiners at 
 the ordnance establishment at which employment is sought. 
 
 24. 4 • ■ its for positions in the Light-House Service, Depart- 
 
 r: > uerce and Labor, for which no educational test is given, 
 
 sho; hi itddress the inspector of the district in which employment is 
 
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 25. Applicants for positions in the Life-Saving Service, Treasury 
 Department, for which no educational test is given, should address 
 the keeper of the station nearest their place of residence. 
 
 26. Applicants for positions in the Engineer Department at Large, 
 War Department, for which no educational test is given, should 
 address the secretary of the local board of examiners at the head¬ 
 quarters of the engineer district in which employment is sought. 
 
 27. Applicants for appointment to mechanical trades and similar 
 positions in the navy-yards should address the secretary of the board 
 of labor employment at the navy-yard where employment is sought. 
 
 28. No application will be approved if on the date of the exami¬ 
 nation the applicant is under the minimum or more than one year 
 over the maximum age limitation. These limitations, however, do 
 not apply to applicants allowed preference in appointment under 
 section 1754, Revised Statutes. 
 
 22. All officers and employees in the service of the Isthmian Canal 
 Commission upon the Isthmus of Panama, except those who are 
 to perform the duties of clerk, bookkeeper, stenographer, typewriter, 
 surgeon, physician, interne, trained nurse, or draftsman, are excepted 
 from examination. 
 
 For information in regard to other positions on the Isthmus 
 address the Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission, Wash¬ 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 30. Section 1754 of the Revised Statutes provides that persons 
 honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of 
 disability resulting from wounds received or sickness incurred in the 
 line of duty shall be preferred for appointments to the civil offices, pro¬ 
 vided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for 
 the proper discharge of the duties of such offices. A person who has 
 been allowed preference by the Commission has the following ad¬ 
 vantages: ( a ) He is released from all age limitations; ( b ) he has to 
 attain an average percentage of only 65 to be eligible, while for all 
 others the average percentage required is 70; (c) having attained an 
 average percentage of 65, his name is placed upon the register above, 
 and is certified before all others who have not been allowed prefer¬ 
 ence; and {d) lie is released from the law and rules relating to ap¬ 
 portionment of appointments. If on the same register the names o 
 more than one preference claimant appear, the name of the claimant 
 having the highest average percentage will, of course, head the list. 
 Preference under this section does not apply to promotion examine 
 tions, or to examinations for the Philippine service. 
 
 The President on July 5, 1906, directed the Commission t< 
 in their order of standing on the eligible register, next<after engibies 
 entitled to preference under section 1754 of the Revised Statutes 
 persons honorably discharged as water tenders, oilers, and firemen 
 
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 from the United States Navy for the position of fireman; persons 
 honorably discharged as warrant machinists in the Navy for the 
 position of chief engineer or assistant engineer, and persons honorably 
 discharged as noncommissioned officers in the United States Army 
 for the position of watchman in the State, War, and Navy Depart¬ 
 ment building. 
 
 31. A person holding a position in the classified service will not be 
 permitted to compete in an examination of the same kind as that 
 given for the position occupied or of the kind which resulted in 
 appointment to the service until after three years from the date of 
 appointment except that a person appointed from the stenographer 
 or the typewriter register may be examined for stenographer and 
 typewriter without regard to this restriction. It is not necessary 
 for a person to resign a Government position in order to take an 
 examination for a position of a different kind from that occupied 
 and of a kind different from that which resulted in appointment to 
 the service. 
 
 32. The civil-service act provides that whenever there are two 
 or more members of a family in the public service in the grades 
 covered by that act no other member of such family shall be eligible 
 to appointment to any of the said grades. The Attorney-General 
 on May 25, 1907, rendered a decision that where two or more members 
 of a family are in the public service in the grades covered by the 
 civil-service act the Commission is authorized and required to with¬ 
 hold from certification the name of any other member of such family. 
 Applications will be accepted from such persons, but their names 
 will not be certified so long as two or more members of their family 
 are in the service. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 U. S. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. 
 
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