Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-09-07
Viii Be Held at Al
buquerque, Ros-
well, Las Vegas
1900 TEMPORARY CLERKS
Persons Addicted TO Intoxi.
cant or Leading immoral
Life Are Disqualified.

cities and states in which the special
test examinations will be made Octo
Der 23, next, for providing the tenn
porary force of about three thousand
clerks for the census burueu. for the
purpose of tabulating the returns from
the thirteenth decennial United
States census, next April -, 1910,
/ has been prepared and a circular an
nouncing it will shortly be issued
jointly by the department Of COM
merce and labor and the United
States civil service commission.
1t is pointed out that an applicant
must be examined in the state in
which he resides and must have been
actually dOmiciled there at least one
year before the examination. In New
Mexico examinations viii be held at
Albuquerque, Las Vegas and Roswell
In Arizona at Douglas. Phoenix. Pres
colt and Tucson. In Colorado at
Denver, Durango, Fort Collins. Grand
Junction Leadville. Pueblo and Trim.
idad. In Texas at Amarillo. Austin,
Brownsville, Dallas. FL Paso, Hous-
ton, San Antonio and Waco.
approximately three thousand tenn
porary clerks will be appointed in
the census bureau for the thirteenth
decennial United States census, and
the date of the first examination will
be October %, next, throughout the
United States, at various cities; ac-
cording to a circular announcement,
relative to the examinations and APP
.pointments, which will be issued
Jointly by the department of COM
merce and labor and the United States
civil service commission.
Blank application forms and the
| circular of instructions may be OBJ
tanned after September 10th, by ad-
| dressing the civil service commits
sion, Washington, D. c.. the Bureau
of Census, Washington, D. c., or the
! Secretary of the Board of Examiners
at the following named places: Post
| office, Boston, Mass, Philadelphia,
Pa, Atlanta, Ga, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Chicago, H., st. Paul, Mimi, Denver,
Colo, San Francisco, Cal, Custom
House, New York, New Orleans, La,
Old Custom House, ST. Louis, Mo.
| Very few appointments from the
October examination will be made be-
fore January l, next, and not many
| will be made until April, 1910. The
maximum force will be drawn August
next year.
These three thousand appolntees
will be given salaries of $500 per an
mum at the beginning, but promotions
to $500 per annum, at least, will be
reasonably rapid for those who render
satisfactory service All appointments
will be on probation, subject to ter
mination at one month or any later
period if the appointee does not
come up to the requirements. In ev-
cry case the appointments will be
temporary and subject to termination
as the eXigencies of the service may
require. All expire by operation OF
law on June 80, 1912. The average
tenure of office will probably be about
one year, but the general duration
will range from six months to two
years. Not one of these clerks will
be eligible for transfer into the classi
fled service. ->'~s & ~ z E=fr --Se}
4 The temporary positions with sala
ries of $1,000 and above, provided for
by the thirteenth census law, will be
filled for the most part by the trans
fer of persons already in the perma-
nent census office, 1t being expected
that the latter organization will sup
ply all other classes of clerks except
those mentioned below.
The work required of the three
thousand employees is, according to
the circular, to consists of four class
es: The operation of card punching
and card tabulating machines; oper-
alton of typewriters, adding machines
and combined typewriter-adding ma
l chimes; manuscript tabulation ana
other clerical work; sub-clerical work,
such as that of messengers, messen-
ger-boys, watchmen, and laborers. No
one will be appointed who is unwill-
ing to work at punching cards or
tabulating cards; or to be compen-
sated on a piece price basis. The sal
aries of subclerical employees will be
at the rates customarily paid in the
government service.
Appointments to the permanent
census force will be made as hereto
fore by transfer from other govern