§ MR. HANBURYI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether any, and, if any, what, barrier exists to the promotion of clerks of the class known as assistant clerks, posting clerks, and abstractors, to vacancies in clerkships of the Second Division, if in the opinion of the permanent Heads of their several Departments such promotion would be for the benefit of the public?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTThe Second Division of the Civil Service is recruited by open competition, and it is not pro- 655 posed to admit to that Division men who have only passed the rudimentary examination required of temporary copyists.