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Show I 4 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. and for those positions Indians could be .selected upon noncompetitive examiuat,iou, which should consist of such tests of fitness its should be approved by the Department and not disapproved by the Commission. An abstract of all persons in the field in the Indian service June 30, 1896, except school employees, arranged with reference to their relations to the civil-service classification, gives the following items: White peraons in the clwsified service : Agency employees classified by compensation- ' Salary less than $720 per annum.. ................... 80 Salary $720 or less than$840.. ................ :.. ..... 164 Ssllary $840 or less than $900.. ....................... 29 Salary $900 or less than $1,000 ....................... 112 Salary $1,000 or leas than $1,200 ..................... 58 Salary $1,200 or less than $1,400 ..................... 74 Salary $1,400 or less then $1,600 ..................... 2 Sa18ry $1,600 or less than $1,800 ..................... 1 Salary $1,800 or less than $2,000 ..................... 2 Salary $2,000 or less than $2,500 ..................... 3 Salary $2,500 and qver ... :. ......................... 2 - 527 . Special agents, commissioners, surveying engineers, and phy-sioian to L'AnseIndians ................................... 14 Presidential sppointmenta.. ................................. 11 - Total white persons in the clnasified service .............. 552 White pereons in the nnolassified service: Confirmed by the Senate: 38 agents, 5 inspectors, 5 com-missioners to F i ~ Ce i vilized Tribes .................... 48 Military offioers aothg ss agents ........................ 17 Physioianspairlfor occasional services. .................. 3 Tralsportstion agents.. ................................. 3 Employed at agenoies at compensation below classification 12 - Total white persons in the unolaasified servioe.. ............ 83 - Total white persons.. ..................................... 635 -- Indians in excepted plsoes ...................................... 1,356 Indians i a positions having salaries helow classification.. ........ 78 Total Indiw employee8 ................................... 1,434 The total of salaries paid to white persons employed at agencies was $546,670; to officials, such as inspectors, special agents, commissioners, ete., not located at agencies, $104,815. Salaries paid to Indians aggre-gated $258,140, nearly half the amount paid to white employees at agencies. Whenever it has been found practicable to employ Indians it has been the policy of this office to gwe them the preference, and in the large majority of cases they have been found faithful and earnest, entering heartily into the work of advancing their own people. There are Indian employees at every agency except two; one of these is a very small |