Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-06

who are personally acquainted with
the applicant.
Applications will be accepted from
women having the required exper'
fence and education, but Tue oppor'
tunity for their employment in this
work is slight, and but few, If any
such appointments will be made.
Director Durand states that, gen.
orally speaking, the duties Of spec
ial agents will consist in obtaining
/ in person, from manufacturing es-
Establishments and mines and quar-
ries, the statistics required by law,
as indicated in the printed schedules
with which they will be furnished.
quantity and value Of products and
of raw materials used, number of
employees and their wages, char
acter and quantity Of power, etc.
The special agents will be divided
into two classes: Class i, chief spec
ial agents, who will collect statistics
and supervise the work of assistant
special agents within a given terri
tory or district; and class 2, assign
ed to the collection of statistics un-
der the direction Of, and subordinate
to, special agents of class 1.
Chief special agents Of class wilt
receive compensation at the rate
of from $3.50 to Sc per day, Including
intervening Sundays. Assistant
special agents of class 2, if paid by
the day, will receive from So to 81
for each day, including intervening
Sundays; but such agents may, how
ever, be compensated on piece
price basis.
The chief special agents will be
employed from six to fifteen months
and the assistant special agents from
three to six months.
Each special agent will, upon ap-
pointment, be assigned an official
station, and no expenses Of subsis-
tence will be allowed any special
agent while working in the immedi-
ate. vicinity Of his station.
Special agents who are necessarily
absent from their designated sta
lions, engaged on official business,
will be allowed their actual and nee
essary travelling expenses and a per
diem in lieu of subsistence under
regulations to be hereinafter promu1-
gated. .
No appointments of assistant spec
ial agents will be made until about
January 1, 1910.
On November next applicants
who have been furnished a card of
admission will be assembled at the
places named for the purpose of TAX
in MT
a schedule Of the hind used in the
actual work Of special agent.
There will be two separate tests
in filing the schedules, designed for
special agents of classes and 2, re-
rspectively. Any applicant may take
either alone, or both, and failure to
successfully pass the test of class
T will not necessarily preclude elig-
Utility for appointment in class 2.
THE test for special agents of class
1 will consist principally of the fl
ling out of a sample schedule from
the details given in a typical balance
mented by other data in -tabulated
form necessary to complete the
schedule.
The test for special agents of class
2 will consist mainly of the filling
out of schedule from a simple
narrative statement of facts relative
to manufacturing establishment,
in which statement will appear all
the figures and facts necessary to
the completion of the schedule.
At least several days prior to the
test each candidate will be furnished
a copy of the schedule and set of
printed instructions regarding the
methods of filling them in
4 The papers prepared by the candi-
dates in these tests will -e graded,
and perfect mark will represent
so points of a scale of 100 in deter
mining the final grade of candi-
date. The grade of the remaining
so points will depend upon the evil
dence of the candidates previous
experience as shown on his appli-
cation blank All applicants who
receive a combined rating of 20 will
be placed on the eligible list.
Applicants who have had satisfac-
tory experience in the collection of
statistics in census work will be ex-
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placed on the eligible register. Also
those who have passed the civil ser
vice examination. for special agent
and examiner, Bureau of Corpora
tons, or special agent Bureau Of
Labor. Persons coming within these
exceptions, however, will be requir-
ed to file the application in COM
pleted form. @,.. .
Selections from the eligible reg
lister will be made as the needs of
the service require. Eligibility is
not of itself a guaranty Of appoint
ment, but selections will be made
solely with reference to equipment
and availability for appointment.
There will be no geographical ap-
portionment of appointments as
such. It will be the policy however
as far as practicable, to assign ap-
pointees to duty In the, localities in
which they, reside, and it therefore
follows that the number of agents
to be appointed from given state
or locality will depend largely upon
the amount Of work to be done in
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