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MISCELLANEOUS DIVISION. 



A. M. Farrington, Chief. 



The Miscellaneous Division has continued its work of keeping 

 records and conducting correspondence regarding civil-service exami- 

 nations for positions in the bureau, appointments to such positions, 

 promotions, demotions, transfers, removals, the conduct of employees 

 as to efficiency, the acceptance of outside employment, and other mat- 

 ters relating to the general subject of personnel; also the keeping of 

 records pertaining to the various projects of the bureau, the carrying 

 on of correspondence relative to the supervision which the bureau 

 maintains over veterinary educational institutions under department 

 regulations, and the handling of miscellaneous correspondence and 

 other matters which do not come within the scope of the work per- 

 formed by other divisions. 



BUREAU PERSONNEL. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year the persons in the employ of 

 the bureau numbered 4,106. During the year there were 601 addi- 

 tions, made up as follows: Appointments, 547; transfers from other 

 branches of the Government service, 35; reinstatements, 19. Dur- 

 ing the same period there were 694 separations from the service, 

 divided as follows : Resignations, 226 ; deaths, 35 ; transfers to other 

 bureaus or departments of the Government, 24; other separations 

 without delinquency, including temporary appointments, 394; re- 

 movals for cause, 15. June 30, 1916, the bureau personnel numbered 

 4,013, a net decrease of 93 from the number a year before. 



Now that foot-and-mouth disease has been eradicated, all the em- 

 ployees assigned to that work have been returned to their former 

 duties. As a considerable number of extra appointments were neces- 

 sary to replace men transferred from their regular duties to the foot- 

 and-mouth disease eradication work, the return of these men to their 

 regular duties made necessary some readjustments. The extra men 

 were assigned to the various stations to replace men separated from 

 the service by death, resignation, or other causes. This accounts 

 for the slight decrease in the number of employees in the service 

 June 30, 1916, as compared with the number on the rolls on the cor- 

 responding date of the previous year. 



During the year four civil-service examinations were requested, 

 and subjects and weights were furnished to the Civil Service Com- 

 mission. 



VETERINARY EDUCATION. 



Two important forward steps in veterinary education have been 

 taken in the past year. One is the raising of the entrance require- 

 ments of colleges, and the other is an addition of one year to the 

 course of study. 



In the regulations which govern entrance to the civil-service exami- 

 nation for veterinary inspector 'in this bureau, which were promul- 

 gated some years ago, there is a regulation which specifies the kind 



