Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-07-08
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS.
For Olerkships for the General Land Office
Service July 81 and %, 1898.

The United States civil service COM
mission announces that examinations
may be taken on July 27 and 2S. 1898, at
the cities named below for positions in
the office of the surveyor general, reg
lister and receiver. in the following states
and territories: The examinations may
also be taken in any other city where
the commission has a competent board
of examiners.
New Mexico: Albuquerque, Clayton,
Las Cruces and Santa Fe.
The positions for which these examin-
ations will be held are as follows:
~ Clerk qualified as stenographer,
typewriter and land Office book-keeper.
(2) Clerk with a thorough knowledge
of land law and a general knowledge of
the system of public land surveying.
(3) Clerk with qualifications of IA land
surveyor, including plating, computing
and drawing, and also with the knowl-
edge of the system Of public land sur
veying.
(9 Thoroughly competent topograph-
ic craftsman with a general knowledge
of surveying. including the system OF
public land surveying.
The subjects of these examinations
are as follows:
Q) First grade basis Except arith-
metic. which is the second grade) 20 per
cent: practical tests in s~tenography, 80
per cent; practical tests in typewriting.
80 per cent. and bookkeeping as prac-
ticed in U. S. land offices, 20 per cent.
(2) First grade basis. 80 per cent;
public land laws of the United States,
IS per cent: and general questions of
the system of public land surveying, Is
per cent.
(3) First grade basis, 80 per cent;
public land laws of the United States,
20 per cent: surveying, including public
land surveying, so per cent.
() Letter writing, 10 per cent; arith-
metic and elementary mathematics, 20
per cent: public land laws. 80 per cent;
elementary land surveying, 10 per cent;
topographic drawing, 80 per cent.
Applicants for appointment to these
positions in Arizona and Now Mexico
must have some knowledge of Spanish.
The time allowed for each of these
examinations is two days. The basis
and the practical tests in land Office
bookkeeping will be given on July 27,
and the practical tests in stenography
and typewriting will be given to appli-
cants, for the examination requiring
them. later. Full notice of the time
and place will be furnished to each
competitor by the commission.
Applicants are advised that writing
and drawing paper will be furnished,
but that they will be required to provide
themselves with writing and drawing
inks. pens, scales, squares, and draw
ing boards, for use during the eXamina
ton.
The commission desires to establish
ample registers of eligibles with the
result of the examination; and it there
fore hopes that all persons who desire
and are capable of filing the position.
mentioned will at once apply for appli
cation blanks.
This examination is open to all citi
zens of the United States who comply
with the requirements. without regart
to race or to political or religious ai1ilia
tions. The department desires tina
residents of the states where the Servic,
is to be performed should be given pref
erence in certiiication for appointment
and the commission will comply witt
such request; and such persons are in
vited to apply. They shall be examined
graded, and certified with entire impair
tiality and wholly without regard to an,
consideration save their ability us show
by the grade they attain in the exam
i~nation.
Attention is invited to the fact tina
certitication will be made according tt
standing in the examination and TIL
actual legal residence of eligibles.
Persons desiring to enter these eX
aminations should at once write to tn
U. S. civil service commission, Wash
ington, d. c., for application blanks
forms 304 and 315, which should b
properly executed and promptly fol
warded to the commission.
, In case applicants are unable to fol
: ward their applications to the commits
sion and receive admission cards prio
= to the examinations, arrangements vii
!; be made to examine them, provide,
! their requests are received at this OF
4 fee in time to permit of the shipment O
I papers to the place where they desir
examination. A. J. LOOMS,
l Secretary