Annual Report1911 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
amended application appointing officer apportioned service apportionment assistant postmaster Attorney Bureau Census cent that passed certification chief Civil Service Commission Civil Service Reform civil-service act civil-service rules classified positions classified service clerical clerk commissioners competitive examination competitive positions Congress Date of charge Department at Large deputy district duties efficiency eligibles employed ended June 30 engineer Executive order filled fourth-class postmasters Government grade Indian Service inspector Internal-Revenue Interstate Commerce Commission Isthmian Canal Isthmian Canal Commission January January 16 July June 13 June 30 Male ment merit system messenger Minute of commission naval navy yards noncompetitive number of persons Opinion Atty permanent Philippine political activity posi Post Office Department President promotion Railway Mail Railway Mail Service recommendation regulations reinstatement removal request Resigned Result rural carrier salary Secretary selection subclerical Superintendent temporary appointments tions transfer Treasury Department unclassified United vacancies Washington York Ор
Popular passages
Page 68 - If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Page 65 - Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify. declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury...
Page 57 - Houses, and no executive, judicial, military, or naval officer of the United States, and no clerk or employee of any department, branch, or bureau of the executive, judicial, or military or naval service of the United States, shall, directly or indirectly, solicit or receive, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting or receiving, any assessment, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatever...
Page 46 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.
Page 64 - No person who holds an office the salary or annual compensation attached to which amounts to the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars shall be appointed to or hold any other office to which compensation Is attached unless specially heretofore or hereafter specially authorized thereto by law...
Page 58 - States shall, directly or indirectly, give or hand over to any other officer, clerk, or person in the service of the United States, or to any Senator or Member of or Delegate to Congress, or Resident Commissioner...
Page 53 - ... place of residence of such persons, of the rejection of any such persons after probation, of transfers, resignations, and removals, and of the date thereof, and a record of the same shall be kept by said commission.
Page 130 - ... pursuant to said rules, until he has passed an examination, or is shown to be specially exempted from such examination in conformity herewith. But nothing herein contained shall be construed to take from those honorably discharged from the military or naval service any preference conferred by the seventeen hundred and fifty-fourth section of the Revised Statutes...
Page 51 - Senate, three persons, not more than two of whom shall be adherents of the same party, as Civil Service Commissioners, and said three commissioners shall constitute the United States Civil Service Commission.
Page 52 - Fifth, that no person in the public service is for that reason under any obligations to contribute to any political fund, or to render any political service, and that he will not be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing to do so.