TABLE 9.-Changes in the Customs Service at ports whose annual receipts are in excess of $500,000, and also the total number of changes at all other ports for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913.

TABLE 9.-Changes in the Customs Service at ports whose annual receipts are in excess of $500,000, and also the total number of changes at all other ports for the fiscal year ended June 30, 19 13-Continued.

There are approximately 6,425 classified competitive positions in the Customs Service. There were 88 removals from competitive positions during the year ended June 30, 1913, which is a little more than 1 per cent, or almost exactly 1 out of 73. The total number of removals from competitive, excepted, and unclassified positions was 143. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1912, there were 79 removals from competitive positions and 170 removals from competitive, excepted, and unclassified positions combined.

Fifty-four appointments to classified competitive positions were made during the year ended June 30, 1913, through open competitive examination at the port of New York, as follows:

There were 13 removals from classified competitive positions at the port of New York during the past fiscal year, as follows: 4 clerks, 8 customs guards, 1 roundsman.

During the previous fiscal year there were 53 appointments made through open competitive examination at the port of New York and 35 removals from classified competitive positions.