§ Sir JOHN SPEARasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the fact that service as assistant clerk is reckoned from after the issue of a Civil Service certificate in that capacity, the position on the seniority list of assistant clerks in any department of any clerk formerly employed on temporary service, but who has since been granted a Civil Service certificate as assistant clerk, is governed by the date of issue of such certificate?
Mr. McKINNON WOODCertain questions as to the relative seniority of assistant clerks are determined by the departments in which they serve, and I am, therefore, unable to give an answer of general application to this question.