Wages paid per year to the corporation employés in the city of Rome-Continued. Are paid by the job. In 1883 the funeral expenses of the poor, done at city expense, amounted to $22,310.80. The surgeons attached to this service take turns in watching at chemists' shops open at night. Six chemists receive $269.50 each per year for keeping their shops open at night. These justices have no compensation, but receive $125.10 per year for expenses. Technical department (for streets, roads, squares, public walks, and hydraulic service). In this department the municipality employs architects and civil engineers, to whom a total of $26,055 was paid in 1883. Night schools.-Night schools are kept by teachers of day schools, to whom a bounty is paid for this extra service, being $7.72 per month to male teachers, and $2.90 per month to female teachers. The Roman municipality also owns two theater buildings and subsidizes one opera company. Custodians at these city theaters receive $231.60 per year. XIII. GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICES. The salaries in the following Table XIII represent the amounts actnally paid, deductions for pension and Government income tax, and the addition of perquisites having been calculated. A small percentage of the respective salaries is held back each year to secure a pension for employés after honorable discharge or retirement from office. Ministers are all paid alike; other employés are for their respective ranks equalized in each Government department, with the exception of the navy and war departments; but even in these they differ only in rank, which is military, otherwise their functions and salaries when employed in administrative offices do not differ from those of the employés of other departments. Salaries paid by the italian Government to state employés in the nine ministerial departments-Continued. a There are also keepers of archives and records, divided in six classes, corresponding in rank and pay with the six classes of secretaries. The wages paid to the various classes of ushers or servants are not stated in the appropriations for the ministries of finance, public works, and public instruction. 189 14 Most of the ministries have separate bureaus depending only on the minister or secretary-general, and for which they are responsible. The personnel of these dependent bureaus is not included in the foregoing Table XIII. These bureaus are as follows: Ministry of the Interior.--Council of state, prefectures, bureau of prisons, syphilitic hospitals, police service (state), state archives. Ministry of Finance.-Collection of taxes, tobacco monopoly, salt monopoly, stamps and stamped paper, provincial treasuries, the mint, state domains, state lottery, customs duties and octroi, auditor's department (corte dei conti). Ministry of War.-Pharmaceutical bureau, bureau of military justice, bureau of artillery accounts, engineer corps: (a) bureau of geometry, (b) technical bureau of artillery and engineering, (c) bureau of geographical engineering and topography. Ministry of the Navy.-Pharmaceutical bureau, bureau of port officials (Capitaneria di porto.) Ministry of Public Works.-Post-office department, telegraph department (Government monopoly). Ministry of Public Instruction.-Bureau of school education, bureau of superior public instruction, bureau of royal universities, bureau of forestry. Ministry of Grace and Justice.-Department of justice. With few exceptions the employés in the foregoing dependent ministerial bureaus correspond in pay with those of similar rank mentioned in Table XIII. In other words, the organic law of March 13, 1881, provides for the equalization of all State employés of like title. Employés in Government service are only appointed after examination, from exmilitary and civil aspirants, who have passed through a certain line of studies. Once appointed, like officers of the army and navy, they are irremovable except for bad conduct. They follow a regular career; but are, however, transferable from one ministry or dependent bureau thereof to another without in any manner affecting their position, rank, or pay; the right of precedence is given to seniority in the same rank. To fill vacancies in a superior rank a double number are called to pass examination; from these successful candidates the best are chosen. For advancement in the same class for example, from under secretary to vice secretary and from vice secretary to secretary, seniority alone is required. In some ministries and dependent bureaus for administrative purposes the Government has necessarily changed the title, but not the meaning of a given employment. For example, clerks are also called writers, copyists, and reckoners (computiste); a head of division may be called director of division, chief of compartment, &c., DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Wages paid by the ministry of grace and justice, per year, to the following persons employed in this department. |