DIRECTIONS.--1. The number above is your examination number.
Write it at the top of every sheet given you in this examination.
2. Fill promptly all the blanks in this sheet. Any omission may
lead to the rejection of your papers.
3. Write all answers and exercises in ink.
4. Write your name on no other sheet but this.
Place this sheet in the envelope. Write your number on the envelope
and seal the same.
DECLARATION.
I declare upon my honour as follows:
1. My true and full name is (if female, please say whether
Mrs. or Miss)
2. Since my application was made I have been living at (give
all the places)
3. My post-office address in full is
4. If examined within twelve months for the civil service--for
any post-office, custom-house, or Department at Washington--state
the time, place, and result.
5. If you have ever been in the civil service, state where and
in what position, and when you left it and the reasons therefor.
6. Are you now under enlistment in the army or navy?
7. If you have been in the military or naval service of the
United States, state which, and whether you were honourably
discharged, when, and for what cause.
8. Since my application no change has occurred in my health
or physical capacity except the following:
9. I was born at ----, on the ---- day of ----, 188.
10. My present business or employment is
11. I swore to my application for this examination as near as
I can remember at (town or city of) ----, on the ---- day
of ----, 188.
All the above statements are true, to the best of my knowledge
and belief.
(Signature in usual form.)------------
Dated at the city of ----, State of ----, this ---- day
of ----, 188_.
FIRST SUBJECT.
Question 1. One of the examiners will distinctly read (at a
rate reasonable for copying) fifteen lines from the Civil-Service Law
or Rules, and each applicant will copy the same below from the reading
as it proceeds.
Question 2. Write below at length the names of fifteen States
and fifteen cities of the Union.
Question 3. Copy the following precisely:
"And in my opinion, sir, this principle of claiming monopoly of office
by the right of conquest, unless the public shall effectually rebuke
and restrain it, will effectually change the character of our
Government. It elevates party above country; it forgets the common
weal in the pursuit of personal emolument; it tends to form, it does
form, we see that it has formed, a political combination, united by
no common principles or opinions among its members, either upon the
powers of the Government or the true policy of the country, but held
together simply as an association, under the charm of a popular
head, seeking to maintain possession of the Government by a vigorous
exercise of its patronage, and for this purpose agitating and alarming
and distressing social life by the exercise of a tyrannical party
proscription. Sir, if this course of things cannot be checked, good
men will grow tired of the exercise of political privileges. They will
see that such elections are but a mere selfish contest for office,
and they will abandon the Government to the scramble of the bold, the
daring, and the desperate."--Daniel Webster on Civil Service, in
1832.
Question 4. Correct any errors in spelling which you find in
the following sentences, writing your letters so plainly that no one
of them can be mistaken:
Unquestionebly every federil offeser should be able to spell corectly
the familier words of his own languege.
Lose her hankercheif and elivate her head immediatly or she will
spedily loose her life by strangelation.
SECOND SUBJECT.
Question 1. Multiply 2341705 by 23870 and divide the product by
6789.
Give operation in full.
Question 2. Divide two hundred and five thousand two hundred
and five, and two hundred and five ten-thousandths, by one hundred
thousand one hundred, and one hundredth.
Question 3. Multiply 10-2/3 by 7-1/8 and divide the product by
9-1/2, reducing the same to the simplest form.
Give operation in full.
Question 4. The annual cost of the public schools of a city
is $36,848. What school-tax must be assessed, the cost of collecting
being 2 per cent., and 6 per cent of the assessed tax being
uncollectible?
Give operation in full.
Question 5. Add 7-3/4, 3/5 of 6-2/9, 8-11/12, 6-1/2 divided by
8-1/8, and reduce to lowest terms.
Give operation in full.
Question 6. The Government sold 3000 old muskets at 22-1/2 per
cent, of their cost. The purchaser becoming insolvent paid only 13 per
cent. of the price he agreed to pay; that is, he paid $900. What did
each musket cost the Government?
Give operation in full.
Question 7. What will it cost to carpet a room 36 feet wide by
72 feet long with 3/4 width carpet at $2.12 per yard, including cost
of carpet-lining at 11 cents a square yard and 12 cents a yard for
making and laying the carpet?
Give operation in full.
Question 8. A owned 7/8 of a ship and sold 4/5 of his share to
B, who sold 5/9 of what he bought to C, who sold 6/7 of what he bought
to D. What part of the whole vessel did D buy?
Give operation in full.
Question 9. A man bought a cargo of wool and sold seven
thousand and forty-five ten-thousandths of it. How much had he left?
Give operation in full in decimal fractions.
Question 10. A merchant imported from Bremen 32 pieces of linen
of 32 yards each, on which he paid for the duties, at 24 per cent,
$122.38, and other charges to the amount of $40.96. What was the
invoice value per yard, and the cost per yard after duties and charges
were paid?
Give operation, in full.
THIRD SUBJECT.
Question 1. On a mortgage for $3,125, dated July 5, 1880
(interest at 3-1/2 per cent), a payment of $840 was made April 23,
1881. What amount was due January 17, 1882?
Give operation in full.
Question 2. The Government sold an old vessel for $160,000,
payable two fifths in eight months and the residue in seventeen months
from the sale. What was the present cash value of the vessel, the
current rate of interest on money being five per cent?
Give operation in full.
Question 3. Write a promissory note to be given by J. Brown
to J. Smith, for 60 days, without grace, for $500, at 5 per cent
interest, and state what amount will be due at maturity of the note.
Question 4. James X. Young, a contractor, had the following
dealings with the Treasury Department: He furnished January 4, 1882,
14 tables at $16 each; June 6, 1882, 180 desks at $18.50 each;
December 7, 1882, 150 chairs at $2 each, and July 18, 1883, 14
book-cases at $90 each. He was paid cash as follows: January 31, 1882,
$224; June 30, $1,800; December 18, $300; and July 31, 1883, he was
allowed on settlement $75 for cartage and charged $25 for breakages.
State his account and show balance due.
FOURTH SUBJECT.
Question 1. State the meaning of tense and of mood, and explain
the difference between them in the English language or grammar.
Question 2. Correct any errors you find in the following
sentences:
The boy done it, and he is as restless here as he will be if he was
with you.
He had did it and spoke of doing it before we come here.
Question 3. Write a letter to Senator Jackson answering in full
his letter of September 7 to the Secretary of the Treasury in which
he asks: "How must my nephew proceed to obtain a clerkship in the
Treasury Department, under the Civil-Service Law, and what are the
requisite qualifications of a good clerk?"
FIFTH SUBJECT.
Question 1. Write without abbreviation the names of fifteen
seaports of the Union.
Question 2. Name four of the principal tributaries of the
Mississippi River.
Question 3. Bound the State in which you live.
Question 4. Which States are peninsular, and upon what waters
are they situated?
Question 5. Name six of the principal railroads in the United
States.
Question 6. Name seven of the leading agricultural products of
the United States, and state in what section of the country each is
most extensively cultivated.
