Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-05
UNDER CIVIL SERVICE.
vrw RIFLES PRoMULGETED By POST
wAsTER-GESERaL DICKINSON.


employees In the Railway Mail Service
Divided Into Mine Classes-The Lines
of Division and Grades ON Salaries
r,rawn-some of the Exceptions Noted.
Blanks for Examinations.
WASHINGTON. December 3l.-Postmaster-
General Dickinson issued the following
order, classifying employees oil the railway
mail service under the Civil Service rules
and regulations.
Postofice Department, washington
Order No. 21S.--It il ordered tnaS an
superintendents, acknowledgements
chief clerks, railway postal clerks route
agents. local agents, mail route messengers,
and other employees OF the railway man
ser vice, be and they are hereby range
into the following classes:
DIVIDED INTO NINE CLAIMS
Class 1.-An persons receiving an
salary Of $500 or less, or a compensation
at the rate Of $500 or less per annum.
Class ALI persons receiving an annual
salary OF $500, or compensation at the
rate 5000 or less but more than $500 per
year.
Glass 3.-AlI persons receiving an annual
salary OF $1,000 or less, but more then
5000, or q compensation at the raoe OF
81. 900 or less but more than $500 per an
mum.
Class ALI uersons receiving an annual
salary of $1,000 or less, but more than
81 600. or a compensation at the rate OF
a 200 or less but more than $1,000 per
Glass 5.-All persons receiving an annual
salary OF $1,4o0 or less, but more tnan
81, 200, or a compensation at tne raue OF
S1.4OO or less, but more than $l,zOo per
annum
salary of 81, 600 or less, but more han
S140O. or compensation at the rate OF
81. 600 or less but more than $l,400 per
annum.
Glass 7-An persons receiving an annual
salary of $500 or less but more than
$1,000. or o. compensation rate OF $l,8OO
or less but more than 81 600 per annum.
Class SAIL persons receiving an annual
salary of $4,000 or less but more than
$1,000, or compensation at the rate OF
$4,000 or less, but more than $l'sOo per
anuum.
Class 9-AIl persons receiving an annual
salary of more than So, 500 or compensa-
tion at the rate OF more than $2,ooo per
annum.
EXCEPTIONS TO THE CLASSIFICATION.
Ii is provided that no person who NAV
be appointed to office by and with the ad-
vice and consent OF the Senate, and that
no person who may be employed, merely as
laborer or workman, not including any
person designated as skilled laborer or
workman shall be considered as within
this classification, and no person SO en-
ployed shall, without examination under
the civil service rules, be assigned TO the
duties OF a classified place.
1t is also ordered that ro person shall be
admitted into any place not exempted
from examination by the civil service rules,
in any OF the classes above designated, I'M
fill he shall nave passed an examination
prepared by the United States civil service
commission, and his eligibility has been
certified to this department by the COM
mission.
PLACES EXEMPTED.
Under the foregoing classification OF the
railway mail service and the rules OF the
civil service commission l, hereby designate
the following places in the railway mail SER
vice as exempt from examination:
One general superintendent OF railway
mail service, one assistant general superin'
tendent OF railway mail service.
Don M. DICKINSON,
Postmaster General.
BLANKS FOR APPLICANTS.
The following notice has been issued I:
the United States civil service commission
is prepared to furn sh application blanks
to persons desiring to be examined for en-
trance to the railway mail service upon re-
quest therefor in writing. The times and
places Of examinations of each will be an
nounced. as rules regulating admission
nave been promulgated. All inquiries
should be addressed to the United States
civil service commission, Washington, D.. Q.