The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-02-10
ADDITIONAL Clerks WAhTTD
IN The CENSUS DEPARTMENT
Calumet Postoffice Notified Of
Examination to be Held
on March 5.
FOR JOBS IN WASHINGTON, D. C.

The Calumet postoffice has beer
notified that the United States Civil
Service Commission has ordered al
examination TO be held on March fol
positions In the additional office force
OF the Census Bureau at Washing
ton, ID. c. The eligible register re-
sulting from the examination held by
the Commission on October 23 last
year is apparently inadequate. and a
second examination is to take place,
in order 20 secure new employees
The scarcity of eligibles from the
prior examination exists chiefly i'm
some OF the southern and Western
states. This examination has nothing
to do with the appointments OF super
visors. special agents, or enumerators,
there being no further examinations
for positions Of that character in con-
temptation.
\ copy OF the announcement of eX
animation and application blank will
be furnished TO applicants by the To-
cal secretary Of the civil service board
at the postofflce in the cities In
which the examination will be held.
The examinations will be held at the
following places in this state: Ann
Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Mar
quette. Saginaw, Sault Ste. Marie and
Traverse City.
Section Of the act providing for
the Thirteenth and subsequent de-
cennial oensuses, approved July >,
1909. provides;
That the additional clerks and other
employees provided for in section six
shall be subject to such special test
examination as the Director of the
Census may prescribe, the said exam
nation to be conducted by the United
States Civil Service Commission, the
10 be open to all appli-
cants without regard to political party
and such examination pa
oers of all eligibles shall be furnished
he Director Of the Census by the
Civil Service Commission and selec-
ions therefrom shall be made by the
Director of the Census, in conformity
With the law of apportionment as
low provided for the classified SER
rice, in the order of rating: Provided I
That hereafter all examinations of APP
llicants for positions i'm the Govern
nent service from any state or terri |
DRY. shall be had in the state or ter
'itory in which such applicant resides, !
md no person shall be eligible for such
examination or appointment unless he {
n she shall have been actually domi- |
lied in such state or territory for at |
east one year previous to such exam
nation: Provided. however. That no |
'erson afflicted with tuberculosis shall |
'e appointed and that each applicant |
or appointment shall accompany his |
r her application with n certificate Of |
ealth from some reputable physician: |
however, That in no in
lance shall more than one person be
ppointed from the same family: Pro-
ided. however, That when the ext
-encies Of the service require, the |
Director may appoint for temporary
Employment not exceeding sixty days
uration, from the aforesaid list of
ligible, those who, by reason of resi-
ence or other conditions, are i'm
nediately available; and may also
ppoint for not exceeding sixty days
uration persons having had previous
experience in operating mechanical |
ppliances i'm census work whose eff
iency records in operating such ap-
dances are satisfactory to him, and
nay accept such records in lieu of the |
Twill service examination.