A summary of the work of the commission since its inception, November 1, 1905, is given in Table XI. Balance of 1910-1911 salary appropriation on hand Jan. 1, 1911 Balance of 1910-1911 appropriation for office and traveling expenses on hand Jan. 1, 1911 Office and traveling expenses appropriation for 1911-1912. Total available... Expenditures during 1911 may be apportioned under the following general heads: The extension of the classified service on July 1, 1911, doubled the number of employés, whose names and pay had to be checked each month. In order to handle this increased work, an assistant examiner, one additional stenographer, and two additional clerks have been employed during the latter half of 1911. Several times sudden increases in work, such as occur at the time of general examinations, have necessitated temporary extra clerical or stenographic help. During December the measuring and recording of individual efficiency of the various employés in the classified service was actively taken up and tentative arrangements were made with several departments for carrying on this work. It is evident that the same methods will not be usable in all departments, and that the requirements of each office must be separately studied. Gratifying reports have already been received from several department heads, indicating that the keeping of these records is having a salutary effect. Many temporary appointments have been necessitated since July 1, 1911, in departments which came under civil service on that date. This was caused by the impossibility of holding examinations to provide eligible lists for many new technical positions. When new employés were requested, authority had to be given to appoint "subject to examination." These examinations are now being rapidly provided for. In order to better handle the subject of temporary appointments a new card record has recently been installed in conjunction with the payroll files, which will materially assist in payroll checking, preparing of examination lists, and restricting the evil of unlimited extension of temporary appointments. The Board of Administration has a well developed system for starting employés at fixed minimum salaries and increasing their pay in a methodical manner according to efficiencv and length of service. No such system is at present in force in the other departments of the State service. It is recommended that a uniform method of salary advance be worked out for all positions in order to eliminate a multitude of present inequalities in compensation. Respectfully submitted, W. R. ROBINSON, CIVIL SERVICE CODE. AN ACT to regulate the civil service of the State of Illinois. (Approved May 11, 1905, in force July 1, 1905. As amended by an Act approved April 19, 1907, in force July 1, 1907 and as amended by House Bill No. 47, approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911.) Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 of an Act entitled,, "An Act to regulate the civil service of the State of Illinois," approved May 11, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, as amended by an Act approved April 19, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, as amended by an Act approved May 25, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, be and the same are hereby amended, and by adding thereto two new sections to be known as sections "3a and 3b," which said sections as amended and said additional sections shall read as follows: SECTION 1. COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED OATH.] The Governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, within thirty days after this Act shall take effect, appoint three persons as Civil Service Commissioners to hold office, one for two years, one for four years and one for six years, from the 1st day of March, 1905, and until their respective successors are appointed and qualified; and they shall constitute the State Civil Service Commission. And on the 1st day of March, 1907, and at the end of every two years thereafter, the Governor shall, in like manner and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint one person as the successor of the commissioner whose term shall expire in that year, to serve as such commissioner for six years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Two commissioners shall constitute a quorum. All appointments to said commission, both original and to fill vacancies, shall be so made that not more than two members shall, at the time of the appointment, be members of the same political party. Said commissioners shall hold no other lucrative office or employment under the United States, the State of Illinois or any municipal corporation or political division thereof. Each commissioner, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take the oath prescribed by the Constitution of this State. SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF COMMISSIONERS-VACANCY.] The Governor may remove any commissioner for want of moral character, incompetency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. The Governor shall at the same time report in writing any such removal to the Senate, with his reasons therefor. If the Legislature is not then in session, such report shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and be transmitted by him to the Senate within ten days after the commencement of the next session. In case of vacancy in the office of commissioner the unexpired term shall be filled by appointment by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. When the Senate is not in session the Governor may make appointments and fill vacancies in the commissionerships hereby created, but all appointments made when the Senate is not in session shall be subject to be confirmed by the Senate at its next session before becoming permanent. SEC. 3. CLASSIFICATION.] Said commissioners shall within six months after this Act goes into effect, classify all the offices and places of employment in the State service, except as provided in section 11 of this Act, with reference to the duties thereof, for the purpose of establishing grades and for the purpose of fixing and maintaining standards of examinations hereinafter provided for. Such classification shall include all offices and places of employment now in existence or which may hereafter be created in the State service of the State of Illinois, except those expressly exempted from the operation of this Act in section 11 hereof. The offices and places so classified by the commission shall constitute the classified Civil Service of the State, and no appointments to any of such offices or places shall be made except under and according to the provisions of this Act and of the rules hereinafter mentioned. The classified service shall include the position of chief examiner herein provided for, and all officers and employés of the Civil Service Commission except special examiners. SEC. 3 (a). STANDARDIZATION.] The commission shall ascertain the duties of each office and place in the classified service and designate by rule the grade of each position. Each grade shall comprise offices and places having substantially similar duties. The commission shall by rule indicate the lines of promotion from each lower grade to a higher grade wherever the experience derived in performance of the duties of such lower grade tends to qualify for performance of duty in such higher grade. The commission shall by rule prescribe standards of efficiency for each grade and for examinations of candidates for appointment thereto. For the purpose of establishing uniformity of pay and title for all offices and places of employment classified in the same grade, it shall be the duty of the commission to prescribe by rule the maximum and minimum pay for each grade and the title thereof and to report to the Governor annually, and at such other times as he may direct, the name and address of each officer and employé paid more or less than the pay prescribed for his grade or designated by a title other than that prescribed for his grade by the commission. The commission shall standardize employment in each grade and make and keep a record of the relative efficiency of each officer and employé in the classified service. It shall provide by rule methods for ascertaining and verifying the facts from which such records of relative efficiency shall be made, which shall be uniform for each grade of the classified service. SEC. 3 (b). PRESENT EMPLOYES.] All persons who, when this 'Act takes effect, shall hold offices or places of employment other than those exempted in section 11 of this Act, shall be classified under the provisions of this Act, and shall become members of the classified State Civil Service without original examination. SEC. 4. RULES.] Said commission shall make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act, and for examinations, appointments, transfers and removals and for maintaining and keeping records of the efficiency of officers and employés, and groups of officers and employés in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and said commission may from time to time make changes in such rules. SEC. 5. PUBLICATION OF RULES-TIME OF TAKING EFFECT.] All rules made as herein before provided, and all changes therein, shall forthwith be printed for distribution by the said commission, and the commission shall give notice of the place or places where said rules may be obtained by publication in one or more daily newspapers published in each of the seven largest cities. in the State, according to the last general census published by the United States, and in each such publication shall be specified the date, not less than ten days subsequent to the date of such publication, when said rules shall go into operation. Copies of all said rules and of all changes therein duly certified by the secretary of the commission, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and shall also be sent to the county clerk of each county in the State within ten days after the adoption thereof, and shall by said county clerks be filed, preserved, indexed and recorded in well bound books kept for that purpose; which files and records shall be open to the inspection by the public at all reasonable hours. SEC. 6. EXAMINATIONS.] All applicants for offices or places in said classified service, except those mentioned in section 11 hereof, shall be subjected to examination, which shall be public, competitive and free to all citizens of the State of Illinois who may be lawfully appointed to any office or place in the service of the State of Illinois, with limitations specified in the rules of the commission as to residence, age, sex, health, habits, moral character and qualifications to perform the duties of the office or place to be filled, which qualifications shall be prescribed by rule in advance of such examination: Provided, however, that in examinations for technical positions residence may be waived. Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the position to which they seek to be appointed, and may include tests of physical qualifications and health, and when appropriate, of manual skill. No questions in any examination shall relate to political or religious opinions or affiliations. The commission shall control all examinations and may, whenever an examination is to take place, designate a suitable number of persons, either in or not in the official service of the State, to be examiners; and it shall be the duty of such examiners, and if in the official service it shall, without extra compensation, be a part of their official duty to conduct such examination as the commission may direct, and to make return or report thereof to said commission; and the commission may at any time substitute any other person, whether or not in such service, in the place of any one so selected, and the commission may themselves at any time act as such examiners and without appointing examiners. SEC. 7. NOTICE OF EXAMINATIONS.] Notice of the time and place and general scope of every examination shall be given by the commission by publication, for two weeks preceding such examination, in one or more daily newspapers of general circulation published in each one of the seven largest cities in the State, according to the last general census published by the United States, and such notice shall also be posted by said commission in a conspicuous place in their office for two weeks before such examination. Such further notice of examination shall be given as the commission shall prescribe. Written or printed notice of every examination shall also be sent by the commission to the county clerk of each county in the State and by him, promptly upon its receipt, posted in a conspicuous place in the court house of each county. SEC. 8. REGISTERS.] From the returns or reports of examiners, or from the examinations made by the commission the commission shall prepare a register for each grade or class of positions in the classified service of the State for the persons who shall attain such minimum mark as may be fixed by the commission for any part of such examination and whose general average standing upon examination for such grade or class is not less than the minimum fixed by the rules of said commission, and who are otherwise eligible; and such persons shall take rank upon the register as candidates in the order of their relative excellence as determined by examination, without reference to priority of time of examination. SEC. 9. PROMOTION.] The commission shall note of record the duties (whether imposed by law, official regulation or practice) of each office or place in the classified service. It shall thereupon by rule fix lines of promotion from such several offices and places to superior offices or places in all cases, where, in the judgment of the commission, the duties of such several positions directly tend to fit the incumbent for a superior position. In case of vacancy in superior offices or places, which cannot be filled by reinstatement, the commission shall hold promotion examinations to fill such vacancy. Incumbents of offices or places next lower in the line so fixed shall be solely eligible for such examination unless in the judgment of the commission, to |