The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-10
Initial Clerk Carrier Examination.

Commission announces that on the
date and at the place named above
an examination will be held for the
positions of clerk and carrier in the
Post-Office Service.
From The eligibles resulting from
this examination it is expected that
the Postmaster-Gene will select
the carriers and substitute carriers
who are to be appointed prior to
the establishment of free delivery
in that city. One of the carrier po-
s,tions may, however. be filled by
the transfer of an experienced car
rier from another classified office.
Selections from these eligibles may
also be made for appointments to
the positions of clerk and carrier
after the establishment of free de-
livery.
Clerks in Offices of the first and
second class and carriers in the city
delivery service are divided into
six grades, as follows: First grade,
salary 5000; second grade, salary
$500; third grade, salary $500; fourth
grade, salary $1,000; fifth grade. SAL
ary $l,1OO; sixth grade, salary ZOO.
Clerks and carriers at tirst-class
Offices will be promoted success
sively to the fifth grade, and clerks
and carriers at second-class Offices
will be promoted successfully to
the fourth grade.
All promotions of both clerks and
carriers will be made at the begin
ming of the quarter following the
expiration of a years service in the
next lower grade. No promotion
will be made except upon evidence
satisfactory to the Post-Otiice De-
partment of the efficiency and
faithfullness of the employe during
the preceding year. When clerk
or carrier fails of promotion be
cause of unsatisfactory service he
may be promoted at the beginning
of the second quarter thereafter. or
of any subsequent quarter, on evi
dence that his record has been sat-
isfactory during the intervening
period. Clerks and carriers of the
highest grade in their respective
Offices are eligible for prom otion
to the higher positions in. said post
Offices.
Any clerk is eligible for transfer
to the service of d carrier, and any
carrier is eligible tor transfer tC
the service of clerk.
Auxiliary employees are paid fol
actual service at the rate of 80 cents
an hour. Such auxiliary employees
however, are required to work no
less than two hours daily, and may
serve as substitutes. Theyare elig
ible for appointment as clerks ant
carriers of the first grade.
Substitutes are paid at the rate Of
30 cents an hour when serving 70,
absent clerks and carriers, and they
are eligible for appointment as
auxiliary employees and as clerks
and carriers of the first grade.
The examination will consist OF
the subjects mentioned below
weighted as Indicated:
Subjects Weights
l. Spelling twenty words OF
average difficulty in common
2. Arithmetic (simple tests
in addition, subtraction. multi.
plication, and division of whole
numbers, common and decimal
fractions and United States
money! ------- ~
3. Letter writing Ia letter Of
not less than l23 words on some
subject of general interest.
Competitors will be permitted
to select one of two subjects
giVen.) NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 20
4. Penmanship tthe hand
writingof the competitor in the
subject of copying from plain
copy will Tee considered with
special reference to the elements
Of legibility, rapidity, neatness,
general appearance, etc.(-- 20
>. Copying from plain copy
Ia simple test in copying accur-
ately few printed lines in the
competitors handwriting) $1,000 10
6. United States geography
(relative to the boundaries of
States, and to capitals, largest
cities, rivers and other bodies
of water, and the location by
States of prominent cities, etc., 10
!. Reading addresses (test in
noting with pen or pencil on
printed sheet of addresses diff
ferenCes between the printed
addresses and the written adj
dresses of which they are a
Total 100
Age limit, all POSITIONS, Is to Is
years. The age limits are waived,
however, in the cases of persons
honorab]y discharged from the
military Or naval service nv pEa