Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-07-24
CLERK EXAMINATION,
POST OFFICE SERVICE

Place of examination, Bryan, Texas.
Date of examination, August 8, 1918.
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that on the
date and at the place named above an
Examination will be held for the posi-
|tion Of clerk in the post Office at that
place.
BY an executive order of September
|3O, 1910, effective December 1, 1910, po-
|sitions of clerk in post office of the
first and second classes not heretofore
classified were included in the CLASH
fed competitive service. The positions
of clerk referred to with few excep-
lions, are in first and second class
post offices which do not have city de-
livery service and at which, therefore.
city carriers are not employed.
Examinations are announced as va
cancies occur or are contemplated, and
from the resulting register OF eligibles
selections for appointment are made,
unless it is found to be in the interest
of the service to fill the vacancies by
reinstatement, transfer or promotion.
The examination hereby announced is
only for the post office in the city
named at the head OF this announce
ment, and will beheld only at that
place.
Clerks in offices of the first and
second classes are divided into six
grades, as follows: First grade, salary
5000; second grade, salary $500; third
grade. salary 5000; fourth grade, sala-
ry $1,000; fifth grade, salary $1100;
sixth grade, salary $1,000. Clerks at
first class offices will be promoted sue
cessively to the fifth grade, and clerks
at second class offices will be promot-
ed successfully to the fourth grade.
All promotions will be made at the
beginning OF the quarter following the
Expiration of years service in the
next lower grade. No promotion will
lbe made except upon evidence salts
factory to the post office department
of the efficiency and faithfulness oil
the employee during the preceding
year. When clerk fails Of promotion
because OF unsatisfactory service he
may be promoted at the beginning o.
the second quarter thereafter, or o.
Iany subsequent quarter, on evidence
THAT his record has been satisfactory
during the itervening period. Clerks
of the highest grade are eligible TO
promotion to the higher positions II
their respective offices.
Auxiliary employees are paid for &C
tual service at the rate of 30 cents al
hour. Such auxiliary employees, how
lever, are required to work not les
than two hours daily and may serve a
substitutes. They are eligible for ar
pointment as clerks of the first grade
! Substitutes are paid at the rate o
l3O cents an hour when serving for at
sent clerks, and they are eligible 10
appointment tas auxiliary employee
and as clerks of the first grade.
The examination will consist of tn
subjects mentioned below, weighted a
: indicated:
Subjects. Weight:
II. Spelling Twenty words OF av-
erage difficulty in common use) /
: 2. Arithmetic (simple tests in ad-
dition, subtraction, multiplication
and division OF whole numbers,
, common and decimal fractions
and United States money ...... 2
I9. Letter writing Ia letter of not
/ less than 125 words on some sub
ject of general interest. COMPETE
tors may select either of two sub
jects given) ..................