Section 22. Assessments and contributions in public offices forbidden.) No person shall, in any room or building occupied for the discharge of official duties by any officer or employé in the State, solicit orally or by written communication, delivered therein, or in any other manner, or receive any contribution of money or other thing of value, for any party or political purpose whatever, from any member of the classified service of the State. No officer, agent, clerk or employé under the government of this State, who may have charge or control of any building, office or room occupied for any purpose of said government, shall permit any person to enter the same for the purpose of therein soliciting or delivering written solicitations for or receiving from, or giving notice to any member of the classified service of the State of any political assessments.

Section 23. Abuse of official influence prohibited.) No officer or employé of the State shall discharge or degrade or promote, or in any manner change the official rank or compensation of any officer or employé in the classified service of the State, or promise or threaten to do so, for giving or withholding or neglecting to make any contribution of money or other valuable thing, for any party or political purpose, or for refusal or neglect to render any party or political service.

In addition to warning you against receiving or soliciting contributions, permitting any person to solicit political contributions from officers or employés, and against making assessments and contributions in public places, the Commission requests that you warn all employés of your institution or department against political activity in the interests of themselves or any candidate. By political activity the Commission means that no employé in the classified service shall be permitted to be a candidate, to serve upon any campaign committee, or shall engage in any political work in the interests of himself, herself, or any candidate. You are particularly cautioned against permitting employés leaves of absence to go to their homes for the purpose of engaging in political work.

This caution should be sufficient to prevent employés who live in the vicinity of institutions from engaging in an active campaign in the interest of themselves or any candidate.

Please see that employés are advised of this warning of the Commission against political activity.

Investigation Requested. The request of the Illinois Civil Service Reform Association and the City Civil Service Reform Association of Chicago, for the Illinois Civil Service Commission to investigate charges of assessment of employés at the Illinois State Reformatory and in the office of the State Grain Inspector in Chicago, was laid before the Commission. The secretary reported that he had asked the Attorney General for an opinion as to whether or not the Illinois Civil Service Commission had any right to make such an investigation. The opinion of the Attorney General will be found in another part of this report.

OCTOBER.

Salaries of Attendants.—After a conference between Mr. Moulton and the Board of Administration, the bookkeeper of the Board of Administration raised the salaries of women appointed in September to $20.00, men being permitted to remain at $25.00, and all pay rolls then were approved. This action was rendered necessary by General Order No. 26 of the Board of Administration and its disapproval by the Commission.

NOVEMBER.

Firemen.—The order of the Board of Administration October 27 on firemen at the Elgin State Hospital was approved except as to the

following portion: "Provided that the superintendent may have authority to pay a lower wage than this ($2.00 per day), upon agreement of the employé at his discretion, subject to the rules of the Civil Service Commission." That portion was disapproved on motion of Mr. Cousley, seconded by Mr. Moulton, because it was believed the salary should not be constantly subject to change.

Pay Rolls. The secretary was instructed to ask heads of all departments and commissions outside the classified service for their November pay rolls in order that the same might be properly tabulated and presented to the Legislature in the recommendation by the Commission for an extension of the classified service.

DECEMBER.

Relatives. The president and secretary were instructed to draft a rule prohibiting the employment of immediate relatives of patients in the same institution in which the patient is confined.

CIVIL SERVICE CODE.

AN ACT to regulate the civil service of the State of Illinois. [Approved May 11, 1905, in force November 1, 1905. Amended by Senate Bill 100, approved April 19, 1907, amending section 11, and Senate Bill 488, approved May 25, 1907, amending sections 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 18, 19 and 35.]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: COMMISSIONERS APPOINTEDOATH.] 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.

The Governor may

2. REMOVAL OF COMMISSIONERS-VACANCY.] 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.

3. CLASSIFICATION.] Said commissioners shall, within ninety days after their appointment, classify all the offices and places of employment in the several charitable institutions of the State and in all institutions over which the Board of the State Commissioners of Public Charities now or may hereafter exercise supervising or visitorial powers. 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 rules hereinafter mentioned.

4. RULES.] Said commission shall make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act; and for examinations, appointments and removals, in accordance with the provisions thereof, and the commission may, from time to time, make changes in the rules.

5. PUBLICATION OF RULES-TIME OF TAKING EFFECT.] All rules made as hereinbefore 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.

6. EXAMINATIONS.] All applicants for offices or places in said classified service, except those mentioned in section 11, shall be subject to examination, which shall be public, competitive, and free to all citizens of the State of Illinois, with limitations specified in the rules of the commission as to residence, age, sex, health, habits and moral character. 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 positions 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 examinations 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 be a part of their official

duty, without extra compensation, 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. The examiners at any examination shall not all be members of the same political party. Whenever the list of persons examined and eligible for original appointment for any position in the classified service shall be less than five, the commission shall hold an examination for such position.

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 commissioners to the county clerks 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.

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.

9. PROMOTION.] The commission shall, by its rules, provide for promotions in such classified service, and shall provide that any vacancy shall be filled by promotion where, in the judgment of the commission, it will be for the best interests of the service to fill such vacancy. If, in the judgment of the commission, it is not for the best interests of the service to fill such vacancy by promotion, then such vacancy shall be filled by an original entrance examination. All examinations for promotion shall be limited to such members of the lower ranks or grades who, by the rules of the commission, are in the line of promotion, and it shall be the duty of the commission to certify to the appointing power the name and address of the applicant for each promotion having the highest rating. The method of examination and the rules governing same shall be the same as provided for applicants for original. appointments.

10. APPOINTMENTS TO CLASSIFIED SERVICE.] The head of a department, office or institution in which a position classified under this Act