REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF APPOINTMENT DIVISION. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, APPOINTMENT DIVISION, Washington, September 1, 1911. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith my annual report as Chief of the Appointment Division for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911. This Division is one of four in the Secretary's Office and the second in order in that Office to be recognized by statute. The Chief of the Division is charged by the Secretary with the supervision of matters relating to appointments, transfers, promotions, reductions, removals, and all other changes in the personnel, including applications for positions and recommendations concerning the same, and the correspondence connected therewith; the preparation and submission to the Secretary of all questions affecting the personnel of the Department in its relations to the civil-service law and rules; the preparation of nominations sent to the Senate and of commissions and appointments of all officers and employees of the Department; the preparation of official bonds; the compilation of statistics in regard to the personnel, including material for the Official Register, and the custody of oaths of office, records pertaining to official bonds, service records of officers and employees, correspondence and reports relating to the personnel, reports of bureau officers respecting the efficiency of employees, and records relating to leaves of absence. STATISTICS RELATING TO THE PERSONNEL. The accompanying table shows by bureaus the number of positions in the service of the Department on July 1, 1911, and the increase or decrease in each bureau as compared with July 1, 1910. The figures include the positions held by post-light keepers and seamen on the vessels in the Lighthouse Service, appointment to which is not made by the Secretary, but do not include positions held by enlisted men on vessels in the Coast and Geodetic Survey nor, with the exception of those in the Lighthouse Service, positions held by temporary employees of any kind paid from lump appropriations. 26321°-c & L 1911-46 721 1 Employees engaged in work in the field for a part of each year with headquarters in Washington are treated as within the District of Columbia. * Includes 17 new (statutory) positions of lighthouse inspector, 1,504 post-light keepers, and 1,201 members of crews of vessels. Does not include 3 temporary draftsmen or 43 temporary mechanics. Does not include the following employees appointed for all or a part of the Thirteenth Decennial Census period, who were on duty at the close of June 30, 1911: 1,948 clerks, 52 subclerks, and 14 special agents, or a total of 2,014. 4 Includes 83 assistant inspectors of hulls and boilers of steam vessels made statutory by the act of Mar. 4, 1911. Includes 17 shipping commissioners and 1 janitor made statutory by the act of Mar. 4, 1911. 7 Increase 229, decrease 74, leaving a net increase of 155, against a net increase of 327 in the fiscal year 1910. The net increase of 155 is due to the authorization of 97 (net) new statutory positions and 58 positions created under lump appropriations, as follows: 1 Includes positions transferred from nonstatutory to statutory roll and 97 (net) additional positions authorized by the acts of Mar. 4, 1911. * Decrease due to transfer of 101 positions to statutory roll, and offset by the creation of 58 additional positions under lump appropriations. The following table shows by bureaus the classification of positions in the Department on July 1, 1911, with respect to the civil-service act and rules and Executive orders. The figures do not include enlisted men on the vessels in the Coast and Geodetic Survey nor, with the exception of those in the Lighthouse Service, positions held by temporary employees of any kind paid from lump appropriations. CLASSIFICATION OF POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR ON JULY 1, 1911, WITH RESPECT TO THE CIVIL-SERVICE ACT AND RULES AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS, BY BUREAUS. 4 1,631 8,782 1 Employees engaged in work in the field for a part of each year with headquarters in Washington are treated as within the District of Columbia. Includes 1,504 post-light keepers and 1,201 members of crews of vessels. Includes 53 employees transferred from the Immigration Commission under authority of Executive order of Dec. 29, 1909, and 7 employees engaged in the construction and repair of tabulating machinery under the provision of Executive orders. Special agents of the Census on detail in the Bureau are treated as being employed in the field outside of the District of Columbia. Does not include the following employees appointed for all or a part of the Thirteenth Decennial Census period, who were on duty at the close of June 30, 1911; 1,948 clerks, 52 subclerks, 14 special agents; total, 2,014. Includes 3 positions (Assistant Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Corporations) who were actually confirmed by the Senate, although apparently the law does not require such procedure. |