UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE CIVIL SERVICE-Continued. for just cause and upon written charges filed with the head of the department or other appointing officer, and of which the accused shall have full notice and an opportunity to make defence; and that no person in the Executive Civil Service shall use his official authority or official influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or controlling the result thereof. Such rules also provide that any person in the Executive Civil Service who shall wilfully violate any provision of the Civil Service act or rules shall be dismissed from office. The Civil Service act contains provisions forbidding any person in the service of the United States from levying upon or collecting from persons in the Executive Civil Service contributions to be devoted to political objects, the collection of such contributions by any person in any public building of the United States, or discrimination against persons who do not make such contributions or render political service. A violation of any of the provisions concerning political assessments, or their collection in a public building of the United States, is declared to be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or by such fine and imprisonment both in the discretion of the court, The act also declares that when rules to carry its provisions into effect shall have been promulgated, "it shall be the duty of all officers of the United States in the departments and offices to which any such rules may relate, to aid, in all proper ways, in carrying said rules, and any modifications thereof, into effect." INSULAR POSSESSIONS. The Federal positions in Porto Rico and Hawaii are subject to the provisions of the Civil Service act and rules and are filled in the same way as similar positions in the United States. Employés in the insular service of the Philippines are subject to the Civil Service rules promulgated by the civil government of the islands. The United States Civil Service Commission assists the Philippines Civil Service Board by conducting examinations for the Philippine service in all the States and Territories. THE UNCLASSIFIED SERVICE. Under an executive order, dated July 3, 1902, unclassified laborers are to be appointed in accordance with regulations approved by the departments and the Commission. Regulations have been adopted for several departments, and positions of laborers are being filled by the appointment of applicants who are rated highest in the elements of age, physical condition, industry, and adaptability. This action is outside the Oivil Service act. PUBLICATIONS OF THE COMMISSION. Among the publications of the Commission for free distribution are the following: Manual of Examinations, giving places and dates of examinations, rules by which papers are rated, descriptions of examinations, specimen questions, and general information. The Civil Service Act, Rules, and Regulations. The Annual Reports of the Commission, showing its work. These annual reports, of which nineteen have been issued, may be consulted at public libraries. United States Secret Service. THE Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department is under the direction of John E. Wilkie, Chief of the division. The service is principally engaged in detecting and prosecuting makers and dealers in counterfeit paper money and coin, although its operations include the detection of all violations of the laws of the United States. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903. there were 424 arrests made by the agents and other qualified officers of the division for the following offences: Manufacturing, having in possession, dealing in, passing, and attempting to pass counterfeit paper money, 38; altering obligations of the United States, having in possession, passing, or attempting to pass altered obligations, 46: manufacturing, passing, and having in possession, and passing counterfeit silver coin, 244: manufacturing, passing, and having in possession, and passing counterfeit minor coin, 23: violating Sections 5,392, 5,414, 5,415, 5,424, 5,432, 5,438, 5,440, 5,459, and 5,479 of the United States Revised Statutes, 66; bribery, 1; violating bankruptcy laws, 2; impersonating United States Government officer. 2; perjury, 2; total 424. Of the above 199 were convicted, 39 were acquitted, and 134 were awaiting the action of the Grand Jury or Courts. The agents also seized quantities of tools and counterfeiting materiais consisting of metal, plaster of paris, silver and gold solution, quicksilver, chemicals, and acids used in plating. Concerning the transactions of counterfeiters during the last fiscal year Chief Wilkie reported as follows to the Secretary of the Treasury: "The history of the year records no indications of extensive operations in the illegitimate enterprise of counterfeiting. Descriptive circu'ars of nine new notes have been sent out by this division, rather as a matter of record than as a precautionary measure, for none of the issues could be considered as belonging to the dangerous' or 'deceptive' class of work. Five of the nine were plain photographic prints of the crudest character, in which it was evident that the makers were not skilful photographers. One note was lithographed, and, while coarse and bloteny, might have been accepted by extremely careless or ignorant persons. One was a woodcut bearing only a general resemblance to the genuine issue, and two were printed from roughly etched zinc plates. The makers and passers of four of the spurious obligations were arrested and their stocks of bills and negatives captured within a short time after the enterprises were launched, and it is doubtful if more than a score of any of the new counterfeits found their way into circulation "In the matter of counterfeit coin there has been comparatively little annoyance, so far as the public is concerned. A number of schemes for the circulation of base-metal coins have been suppressed, and an inspection of the comparative table will show taat the number of moulds captured is largely out of proportion to the quantity of counterfeit coin removed from circulation. Tais is due to the fact that in many instances it has been possible to raid the workshops of the counterfeiters before they had succeeded in floating any considerable quantity of their product. There has been a continued and satisfactory decrease in the number of all silver' counterfeits appearing in the larger cities, and there is no evidence of any new enterprise along this fine. Such coin as is now being received is the product of organizations broken up in previous years." Civil Service Rules in the City of New York. SYNOPSIS of regulations governing the admission of persons into the civil service of the City of New York. Information may also be had by applying to the Secretary of the Civil Service Commission, 61 Elm Street, corner of Leonard, New York City. Under the White Civil Service law, Chapter 370, Laws of 1899, April 19, the rules apply to all positions in the service of the City of New York except officers elected by the people, all legislative officers and employés, heads of any department, or superintendents, principals, or teachers in a public school, academy, or college. This requires examinations, wherever practicable, to ascertain the fitness of applicants for appointment to the civil service of said city." The Constitution requires that these examinations shall be competitive, so far as practicable." APPLICATIONS. Applications of competitors for positions included in Schedules B, C, D, and E must be addressed to the Secretary of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, New York City," and for all positions except firemen and park policemen, must be accompanied with the following papers: First-The affidavit of the applicant, showing that he is not less than eighteen years of age (this requirement is waived in special cases, i. e., office boy) and a citizen of the United States, giving his place of residence, with the street and number thereof, if any; the place, nature, and extent of his education, and of his business training and experience, and stating whether he has ever been in the civil service of the City of New York, or in the military or naval service of the United States, and if so, when and where. Second-A statement whether such application is limited to any particular office in the service. Third-The certificate of four reputable persons of the City of New York, that they have been personally acquainted with the applicant for at least one year, and believe him to be of good moral character, of temperate and industrious habits, and in all respects fit for the service he wishes to enter, and that each of them is willing that such certificate should be published for public information, and will upon request give such further information concerning the applicant as he may possess. The requirements as to citizenship and certificates of character, in case of persons applying for positions under Schedule E, and the requirements as to citizenship in case of persons applying for positions under Schedule D, may be modified or dispensed with in the discretion of the Civil Service Commission. All applications for examination shall be filed in the office of the Secretary, and all application and other blanks shall be kept at his office, and shall be procurable there only. Applicants for the following positions must, before being admitted to examination, present satisfactory evidence as to the following facts: First-If the position to be filled be that of physician, surgeon, medical officer, inspector of vaccination, or sanitary inspector, that the applicant is duly authorized by the laws of the State of New York to practise medicine and surgery. Second-If the position to be filled be that of chemist or analyzer, that the applicant has received the degree of Bachelor of Sciences, or its equivalent, from some institution duly authorized by law to confer such degree, In positions where the duties are professional, technical, or expert, the candidates will be required to show what preliminary training or technical education they have undergone to qualify them for such situations before they can be admitted to examination. In all examinations for professional positions, or positions requiring technical knowledge, no person shall be placed on the eligible list who obtains a rating in technical knowledge of less than 75. Applications for positions included in Schedule G must be addressed to the "Labor Clerk, etc." For the boroughs of Manhattan, Bronx, and Richmond address New York." For the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens address "Brooklyn. "' CONDUCT OF EXAMINATIONS. Applicants shall be admitted to examination upon the production of the official notification to appear for that purpose. Each applicant shall receive a number,which shall be indorsed upon his notification when produced, and the notifications so indorsed shall be sealed in an envelope. Each applicant shall sign his examination papers with his number, omitting his name, and the envelope shall not be opened until all the examination papers have been received and the markings and gradings made. All paper upon which examinations are to be written shall be furnished to the applicants by the examining board and shall bear some suitable official indorsement, stamp, or mark, for the purpose of identifying the same. All examinations shall be in writing, except such as refer to expertness or physical qualities, and except as herein otherwise provided. The sheets of questions shall be numbered and shall be given out in the order of their numbers, each, after the first, being given only when the competitor has returned to the examiners the last sheet given to him. In general, no examination shall extend beyond five hours without intermission; and no questions given out at any session, to any candidate, shall be allowed to be answered at another session. Each applicant must complete his examination on the obligatory subjects before taking up any of the optional subjects. Examiners of persons named for promotion shall personally question them concerning their office work and its purposes, in order to ascertain if they have a general and intelligent knowledge of the business in the department in which they are employed, and may require the persons examined to give a written description of the work done by them and its relation to the duties of others. Each examiner shall exercise all due diligence to secure fairness and prevent all collusion and fraud in the examinations. The time allowed for completing the examination shall be announced before the first paper is given out. For the obligatory subjects the examination shall be confined to a single day. The following municipal departments and offices come under jurisdiction of Civil Service rules: Accounts, Com. of. Armory, Board of. Assessors, Board of. Bellevue and Allied Hospitals. Brooklyn Disciplinary Training Charities, Dept. of Public. Civil Service Commission. Court, City Magistrate. Estimate and Apportionment, Presidents of Boroughs. Street Cleaning, Dept. of. The inspectors of elections and poll clerks are exempt from examination. Special patrolmen, appointed pursuant to section 269 of the New York City Consolidation act, are also exempt. Regents' Examinations in New York State in 1904. REGENTS' examinations under the control of the University of the State of New York (office, Albany, N. Y.) will be held in 1904 at the following times and places: January 25-29 inclusive, at New York, and about 550 academies and high schools; 76 subjects. March 23-25 inclusive, at New York, and about 525 academies and high schools; 27 subjects. June 13-17 inclusive, at New York, and about 575 academies and high schools; all (76) subjects. September 27-29, inclusive, at New York, Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo; 25 subjects. September examinations are for professional and technical students only. Morning session begins 9.15 A.M. Afternoon session begins 1.15 P.M. UNIVERSITY CREDENTIALS-Preliminary (preacademic) certificate-Reading, writing, spelling, elementary English, arithmetic, geography. MEDICAL STUDENT CERTIFICATE For matriculates prior to May 9, 1893, for any 20 counts, allowing 10 for the preliminaries, not including reading and writing; for matriculates prior to May 13, 1895, for arithmetic, elementary English, geography, spelling, United States history, English composition, and physics, or any 50 counts, allowing 14 for the preliminaries; for matriculates prior to January 1, 1896, for any 12 academic counts; for matriculates prior to January 1, 1897, for any 24 academic counts. But all matriculates after January 1, 1897, must secure 48 academic counts. LAW STUDENT CERTIFICATE-Advanced English, English composition, first year Latin, arithmetic, algebra, plane geometry, English history, United States history, civics, economics, or any 36 academic counts. The foregoing rule took effect January 1, 1895. All students who had begun their law course or clerkship before January 1, 1895, as shown by the law school or Court of Appeal records may secure a certificate under the 1892 requirements, viz.: English composition, first year Latin, arithmetic, geometry, English and United States history, and civics, or any 30 counts including preliminaries. DENTAL STUDENT CERTIFICATE--Any 36 academic counts or their equivalents (for matriculates before January 1, 1905). VETERINARY STUDENT CERTIFICATE-Any 24 academic counts or their equivalents (for matriculates before January 1, 1905). ACADEMIC CERTIFICATES-All preliminaries and any 24, 36, 48, 60, etc., counts, if one-sixth of the first 24, 36, and 48 counts are in English or language substitute. First Year Certificate-No certificate is issued for 12 counts unless it includes the preliminaries and first year English (or English composition and 2 other English counts). The first year in any foreign language may be substituted for first year English in the first year certificate. There is no limit of time, but all credentials issued by the University are good till cancelled for cause. Studies necessary to obtain any credential may be passed at different examinations. Seventy-five per cent of correct answers is required in all subjects. Answer papers will be reviewed in the regents' office, and all papers below standard will be returned to the candidates. For those accepted passcards will be issued. Candidates not attending schools in which regents' examinations are held should send notice at least 10 days in advance, stating at what time and in what studies they wish to be examined, that required desk room may be provided at the most convenient place. Candidates who fail to send this advance notice can be admitted only so far as there are unoccupied seats. Professional Certificates Without Examinations-Candidates having credentials which can be accepted in place of examinations should send them to the high school department. MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS. The regents shall admit to any examination any candidate who pays a fee of $25 and submits satisfactory evidence, verified by oath, if required, that he-1. Is more than twenty-one years of age; 2. Is of good moral character; 3. Has the general education required preliminary to receiving the degree of bachelor or doctor of medicine in this State; 4. Has studied medicine not less than four full school years of at least nine months each, including four satisfactory courses of at least six months each in four different calendar years in a medical college registered as maintaining at the time a satisfactory standard. This requirement took effect January 1, 1898, and does not apply to students matriculated before that date who receive their degree before January 1, 1902; 5. Evidence that applicant has received the degree of bachelor or doctor of medicine from some registered medical school, or a diploma or license conferring full rights to practise medicine in some foreign country (original credentials). Examinations for license to practise medicine in this State will be held as follows: January 26-29, May 17-20, June 21-24, September 27--30, at New York, Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo. (Each candidate is notified as to exact place.) DENTAL EXAMINATIONS. The regents shall admit to examination any candidate who pays a fee of $25 and submits satisfactory evidence, verified by oath, if required, that he-1. Is more than twenty-one years of age; 2. Is of good moral character; 3. Has the general education required preliminary to receiving the degree of doctor of dental surgery in this State. Matriculates in a registered dental school before January 1, 1896, are exempt from the preliminary education requirement for degrees and for adinission to the licensing examinations; 4. Subsequently to receiving such preliminary education either has been graduated in course with a dental degree from a registered dental school, or else, having been graduated in course from a registered medical school with a degree of doctor of medicine, has pursued thereafter a course of special study of dentistry for at least two years in a registered dental school, and received therefrom its degree of doctor of dental surgery, or else holds a diploma or license conferring full right to practise dentistry in some foreign country and granted by some registered authority. Dates of dental examinations: January 26-30, May 17-21, June 21-25, and September 27-30, at New York, Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo. (Each candidate is notified as to exact place.) VETERINARY EXAMINATIONS. The regents shall adinit to examination any candidate who pays a fee of $10 and submits satisfactory evidence, verified by oath, If required, that he-1. Is more than twenty-one years of age; 2. Is of good moral character; 3. Has the general education required in all cases after July 1, 1897, preliminary to receiving a degree in veterinary medicine. Matriculates in a registered veterinary medical school prior to January 1, 1896, are exempt from the preliminary education requirement; 4. Has studied veterinary medicine not less than three full years, including three satisfactory courses, in three different academic years, in a veterinary medical school registered as maintaining at the thine a satisfactory standard, 5. Has received a degree as veterinarian from some registered veterinary Dates of examinations: January 26-29, May 17-20, June 21-24, September 27-30, at New York, Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo. medical school. CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS. 1. The full C. P. A. certificate is to be granted only to those at least twenty-five years of age who have had three years' satisfactory experience in the study or practice of accounting, one of which shall have been in the office of an expert public accountant; 2. Candidates having the required preliminary education and passing the required examinations, but lacking the age or the three years' experience required for the full C. P. A. certificate, may be certified as junior accountants under the same conditions as to residence and character; 3. Two examinations, in January and in June, are held annually. There are to be four sessions as follows: 1, Theory of accounts; 2, Practical accounting; 3, Auditing; 4, Commercial law; 4. Candidates must complete all subjects at a single examination as required in medicine. 5. Candidates for either the C. P. A. or the junior accountant certificate must be more than twenty-one years of age, and of good moral character. They must pay a fee of $25, and must have the regents' academic diploma or its equivalent as prescribed for other professional examinations. Dates of examinations, January 26-27 and June 21-22. REGISTRATION OF NURSES. Who May Practise as Registered Nurses-Any resident of the State of New York, being over the age of twenty-one years and of good moral character holding a diploma from a training school for nurses connected with a hospital or sanitarium giving a course of at least two years, and registered by the regents of the University of the State of New York as maintaining In this and other respects proper standards, all of which shall be determined by the said regents, and who shall have received from the said regents a certificate of his or her qualifications to practise as a registered nurse, shall be styled and known as a registered nurse, and no other person shall assume such title, or use the abbreviation R. N. or any other words, letters, or figures to indicate that the person using the name is such a registered nurse. Two examinations will be held annually in January and June respectively at the places prescribed for regents' examinations in the other professions. Applications should be made at least ten days in advance to College Department, University of the State of New York, Albany, N.Y. Dates: 1904, June 21; 1905, January 24, at New York, Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo. (Each candidate is notified as to exact place.) FISCAL YEAR ENDING of Claims "Allowed. Pensioners of the war of the Revolution-Widows, 2; daughters, 3. Pensioners of the war of 1812 -Survivor, 1; widows, 1,115. Pensioners of the war with Mexico-Survivors, 5.964; widows, 7,910. Indian wars-Survivors, 1,565; widows, 3, 169. War with Spain-Invalids, 9,200; widows, 3,662. NUMBER OF PENSION CLAIMS, PENSIONERS, AND DISBURSEMENTS, 1861-1903. Total Number Total Number NUMBER OF PENSIONERS ON THE ROLL. of Applications Filed. JUNE 30. Disbursements. $1,072,461.55 790,384,76 1,025,139,91 4,504,616.92 Invalids. Widows, etc. Total. 23,479 1865 72,684 40,171 35,880 8,525,153.11 50,177 13,459,996, 43 36,482 69,565 83,618 153,183 18,619,956, 46 24,010, 981.99 1869 26,066 23, 196 28,422, 884, 08 1870 24,851 18,221 87,521 111,165 198,686 27,780,811,81 1871 43,969 16,562 93.394 114,101 207,495 33,077,383, 63 29,185,289,62 30,593,749.56 29,683,116,63 28,351,599, 69 128,723 103,381 232,104 28,580,157.04 92,349 223,998 26,844,415.18 31,346 242,755 33,780,526, 19 19,545 57,240,540.14 27,394 50,626, 538.51 27,664 182,633 103,064 285,697 54,296, 280, 54 97,616 303,658 60,431,972, 85 1884 41.785 34, 192 225,470 97,286 323,756 57,273,536.74 247,146 97,979 345,125 65,693,706, 72 95,437 365,783 64,584,270, 45 74,815,486, 85 1888 75,726 60,252 343,701 79,646,146.37 1889 81,220 116,026 66,637 415,654 122,290 537,944 106,493, 890, 19 1891 696,941 156,486 536,821 139,339 676,160 118,548,959.71 1892 246,638 224,047 141,086,948.84 121.630 759,706 206,306 966,012 158,155,342,51 1894 57,141 39,085 754,382 215,162 969,544 140,772,163.78 750,951 219,567 970.524 140, 959,361,00 753,451 747,967 222,557 751,864 728.732 267.813 970,678 139,280,075,00 238,068 991,519 139,482,696.00 241,674 993, 529 139,381,522,73 997, 735 139,582,231,98 999,446 138,491,822, 48 996,545 138,890,088.64 Total 2,924,701 1,782, 213 $2,979, 938,153. 10 UNITED STATES PENSION STATISTICS-Continued. PENSION AGENCIES AND GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITS, JUNE 30, 1903. Topeka Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico.. Chicago New York City Washington.. Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, W. Va., D. C., Foreign Washington. Disbursements. $2,802,987.22 7,347,305, 82 6,356,551.75 10,633,804,34 14,964,672.16 2,689, 610.97 7,760,745.93 6,575,705. 15 10, 280, 247.07 8,261,583.00 3,969,056, 68 7,104, 269.56 6,888,631. 21 7,707,976.06 6,446, 086.00 4,985,035.74 15, 898, 408. 08 8,217,411, 90 $138,890,088.64 * Excepting the States in the Louisville and Washington districts. The expenses of the Pension Bureau and of pension agencies in disbursing the pension fund during the fiscal year were $3,993, 216. 79. From 1866 to 1903 inclusive, this expense has been $95,647,934.71. The names of the pension agents will be found in the list of officials of the Federal Government.. The oldest pensioner on the rolls June 30, 1903, was Hiram Cronk, aged 103 years, who resided at Ava, Oneida County, N. Y. It will be seen that it is possible that the widow of a Revolutionary soldier may be drawing a pension in the year 1916. For a similar reason the widow of a veteran of the late Civil War may be living in 2002, and of the war with Spain in 2050. Daniel F. Bakeman, the last survivor of the War of the Revolution, died in Freedom, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., April 5, 1869, aged 109 years. SURVIVOR OF THE WAR OF 1812 ON PENSION ROLLS JUNE 30, 1903. Cronk, Hiram Age. Service (troops). Town. Ava... State. New York. The Commissioner of Pensions estimates the number of survivors of the Civil War who for various reasons refuse to apply for pensions at 200,000. Some of these are comfortably situated financially; many are proud, many scorn relief; many do not believe in the pension system as it now exists. The following are the ratings per month for disabilities incurred in the service: Army.-Lieutenant-colonel and all officers of higher rank, $30; major, surgeon, and paymaster, $25: captain and chaplain, $20; first lieutenant and assistant surgeon, $17; second lieutenant and enrolling officer, $15; enlisted men, $8. Navy. Captain and all officers of higher rank, commander, surgeon, paymaster, and chief engineer, $30; lleutenant, passed assistant surgeon, surgeon, paymaster, and chief engineer, $25; master, professor of mathematics, and assistant surgeon, $20; first assistant engineer, ensign, and pilot, $15; cadet midshipman, passed midshipman, midshipman, warrant officers, $10; enlisted men, $8. |