§ Mr. FIELDasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the fact that the Report of the Amalgamation Committee of the Customs and Excise provides for the abolition of the port clerk class, he can state to what class not inferior to second division are assistant clerks in the Customs eligible for promotion, in accordance with their conditions of service?
Mr. McKINNON WOODAlthough the class of Customs port clerks will disappear as a result of amalgamation, the class of second division clerks has been restored to the establishment, and specially meritorious assistant clerks in the department are eligible for exceptional promotion thereto, and to junior clerkships in the Statistical Office.