The age-herald., 1899-05-30

a certificate of qualification upon satisfy ing itself Of general fitness and upon the receipt of certificate from the appointing officer covering the facts.
 The amendment provides against the transfer of persons employed under this rule to places in the competitive service. The provision covering the provisions in the classified service is altered materially in language, and as changed reads as fol- lows:
 No removal shall be made from the competitive classified service, except for just cause and for reasons given in writ ing; and the person sought to be removed shall have notice and be furnished copy of such change and be allowed a reason able time for preliminary arrangement, the same in writing Copy of such reasons, notice and arrangement of the order of removal shall be a part of the records Of the proper department and the reasons for any change ill compensation within the competitive classified service shall also be made a part of tho records of the proper department officers.
 Rule of the act is amended so as to give to persons honorably discharged from service in the army and navy of the United States in the Spanish American war, as WeM as the veterans in the civil war, pref erenee in the making of the appointments. The term of eligibility heretofore only from the date of the entry of the name Of eligible candidate for the service, is eX- tended for a further period of one year, in the discretion of the commission. They added to the rule that makes permanent discharges frsm the heads of departments as existing temporary appointments.
 All persons serving under temporary ap- pointments at the date of the approval of this section may be promptly appointed, in the discretion of the commission, and the special rule approved January 20, 1899, relative to temporary appointments in the navy department is hereby rescinded.
 Rule 9 is so amended as to exempt per- sons who served in the war with Spain from the one-year limit in the matter or reinstatement after discharge from the service This provision also applied alike to the widows of such soldiers, but the former provision including nurses Is elim- mated. Reinstatements generally may be made hereafter without regard to the length of time or separation where the dis missal for the service has been due to reduction of force superficially required by law
 Any person dismissed from the service upon charges of delinquency or misconduct may be reinstated subject to the other con- ditions of the duties without regard to the limit, upon certificate of the officer that he has investigated the dismissal and that the facts upon which the dismissal was based were untrue"
 According to figures printed in December the largest classes included in the classi- fled service number thus:
 Deputy collectors of internal revenue ser vice, 472; storekeepers and gaugers, tenn porarily employed, 800; military park com missioners and employees, 5S; finance clerks and cashiers, 2S; several secretaries at cer- tain postoffices, 22; deputy marshals, 20I; private secretaries to United States dis tricts, 57j special agent general land office, 30; superintendents of warehouses irriga- ton and logging, 20; financial clerks, In- dian agencies, 60; Alaska school service, 32; pension examiners, surgeons, 675; chief and financial clerks pension agencies, 36; special agents and experts, department of agriculture, 25.