CHAPTER XVIL 
THE DOMINION ADMINISTRATION. 
THE Administration and Government is carried on by 
means of fifteen departments of State exclusive of the office 
of the High Commissioner. All the departments are presided 
over by a Cabinet Minister, but two of them, viz. that charged 
with Public Printing and Stationery and the department of 
[ndian affairs, are placed each under the charge of a Minister 
who is at the head of some other department. 
OFFICERS. HOW APPOINTED. 
Appoint. 
ment of 
Dffcers. 
Civil Ser- 
vice Act. 
The Head of the Department is assisted in his duties by a 
Deputy Head, a chief clerk, clerks, messengers, and other 
employés. The number of officers and employés required 
for the working of a department is determined by the 
Governor-General in Council, but a clerkship cannot be 
astablished unless the Deputy Head reports that such an 
officer is necessary for the proper performance of the duties 
of the department, and the Head concurs in such report, 
and the salary has been voted by Parliament. 
The appointment of all departmental officers and servants 
other than the Head is regulated by the Civil Service Act! 
The Civil Service constituted by that Act includes all 
persons employed in the several departments of the Execu- 
1 R. S.C. ec. 17.