APPENDIX.

PART I.

CIVIL-SERVICE ACT, RULES, AND REGULATIONS.

EXHIBIT 1. Amended civil-service rules, superseded by revised rules of March 1, 1888 (147-155).

2. Civil-service regulations, superseded by revised regulations of March 1,

1888 (156-163).

3. Civil-service act (164-167).

4. Revised civil-service rule-March 1, 1838 (168-185).

5. Revised civil-service regulations-March 1, 1888 (186-201).

6. Regulations governing promotions in the classified departmental service, applied to the Department of War May 7, 1887 (202–204).

7. Regulations governing promotions in the classified civil-service of the customs district of New York, in force January 4, 1887 (205, 206).

8. Classification (207–209).

9. Schedules of examinations-1887 (210-215).

10. Schedule of examinations-1888 (216-222).

11. Rules and regulations for the civil-service-1871 (223, 224).

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AMENDED CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

hese are the rules to which reference is made in the .text of the report. They have been superseded by the rules promulgated by the President February 2, 1888, and in effect March 1, 1888. See pp. 168-185]]

fn the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the 1753d section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rules for the regulation and improvement of the executive civil-service are hereby amended and promulgated:

RULE I.

No person in said service shall use his official authority or influence either to coerce the political action of any person or body or to interfere with any election.

RULE II.

No person in the public service shall for that reason be under any obligation to contribute to any political fund, or to render any political service, and he will not be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing to do so.

RULE III.

It shall be the duty of collectors, postmasters, assistant treasurers, naval officers, Surveyors, appraisers, and custodians of public buildings at places where examinations are to be held, to allow and arrange for the reasonable use of suitable rooms in the public buildings in their charge, and for heating, lighting, and furnishing the same, for the purposes of such examinations; and all other executive officers shall in all legal and proper ways facilitate such examinations and the execution of these

rules.

RULE IV.

1. The commission may appoint boards of examiners as follows:

THE CENTRAL BOARD.-A board composed of seven members, who shall be detailed from the departments in which they are serving when appointed for continuous service at the office of the commission. This board shall mark such papers of examinations for admission to the departmental, customs, and postal services as the commission may direct.

DEPARTMENTAL SPECIAL BOARDS.-These boards shall mark such papers of special examinations for the departmental service as the commission may direct, and shall be composed of persons in the public service.

DEPARTMENTAL SUPPLEMENTARY BOARDS.-These boards shall mark the papers of such supplementary examinations for the departmental service as the commission may direct, and shall be composed of persons in the public service.

DEPARTMENTA

of three member

which the board

L PROMOTION BOARDS.-One for each of the executive departments,

; and one auxiliary member for each bureau of the department for is to act.

DEPARTMENTAL LOCAL BOARDS.-These boards shall be organized at one or more places in each state and territory where examinations for the departmental service are to be held, and shall each be composed of persons in the public service residing in the state or territory in which the board is to act.

CUSTOMS BOARDS.-One for each classified customs district, to be composed of persons in the customs service in the district for which said hoard is to act. These boards shall conduct examinations for entrance to and promotions in the classified customs service, and shall mark such of the examination papers for that service as the commission shall direct. They shall also conduct such departmental examinations as the commission may direct.

POSTAL BOARDS.-One for each classified postoffice, to be composed of persons in the postal service at the postoffice in which said board is to act. These boards shall conduct examinations for entrance to and promotions in the postal service, and shall mark such of the examination papers for that service as the commission may direct. They shall also conduct such departmental examinations as the commission may direct.

2. No person shall be appointed an examiner until after consultation by the commission with the head of the department or office in which the person whom it desires to appoint is serving.

3. It shall be the duty of the head of any classified customs office or postoffice to promptly give written information to the commission of the removal or resignation from the public service or of the inability or refusal to act of any examiner in his office. And, on request of the commission, such officer shall state which of the persons in his office he regards as most competent to fill the vacancy, and shall mention generally the qualifications of each person named by him.

4. The duties of an examiner shall be regarded as a part of his public duties, and each examiner shall be allowed time during office hours to perform the duties required of him.

5. The commission may adopt resolutions which shall prescribe (1) the manner of organizing the boards of examiners, (2) the powers of each board, and (3) the duties of the members thereof.

6. The commission may create additional boards of examiners and may change the membership of any board, and boards of examiners shall perform such other appropriate duties as the commission may impose upon them.

RULE V.

There shall be three branches of the service classified under the civil-service act (not including laborers or workmen, or officers required to be confirmed by the Senate), as follows:

1. Those classified in the departments at Washington shall be designated "The classified departmental service."

2. Those classified under any collector, naval officer, surveyor, or appraiser in any customs district, shall be designated “The classified customs service.”

3. Those classified under any postmaster at any postoffice, including that at Washington, shall be designated "The classified postal service."

4. The classified customs service shall embrace the several customs districts where the officials are as many as fifty, now the following: New York City, N. Y.; Boston, Mass.; Philadelphia, Pa.; San Francisco, Cal.; Baltimore, Md.; New Orleans, La. ; Chicago, Ill.; Burlington, Vt.; Portland, Me.; Detroit, Mich.; Port Huron, Mich. 5. The classified postal service shall embrace the several postoffices where the officials are as many as fifty, now the following: Albany, N.Y.; Baltimore, Md.; Bos ton, Mass.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleve land, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.; Indianapolis, Ind. ; Jersey City, N. J.; Kansas City, Mo.; Louisville, Ky.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Newark, N. J.; New Haven,

Conn.; New Orleans, La.; New York City, N. Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Providence, R. I.; Rochester, N. Y.; Saint Louis, Mo.; Saint Paul, Minn.; San Francisco, Cal.; Washington, D. C.

6. Whenever within the meaning of said act the clerks and persons employed by the collector, naval officer, surveyor, and appraisers, or either of them, in any customs district, shall be as many as tifty, any existing classification for the customs service shall apply thereto, and when the number of clerks and persous employed at any postoffice shall be as many as fifty, any existing classification of those in the postal service shall apply thereto; and thereafter the commission will provide for examinations for filling the vacancies at said offices, and the rules will be applicable thereto.

RULE VI.

1. There shall be open, competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for admission to the service. Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and, so far as may be, shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the branch of the service which they seek to enter.

2. And for the purpose of establishing in the classified service the principle of compulsory competitive examination for promotion there shall be, so far as practicable and useful, such examinations of a suitable character to test the fitness of persons for promotion in the service; and the commission may make regulations, applying them to any classified department, customs office, or post office, under which regulations examinations for promotion shall be conducted and all promotions made; but until regulations made by the commission in accordance herewith have been applied to a classified department, customs office, or post office, promotions therein may be made upon any test of fitness determined upon by the promoting officer. And in any classified department, customs office, or postoffice in which promotions are made under examinations, as herein provided, the commission may, in special cases, if the exigencies of the service require such action, provide non-competitive examinations for promotion.

RULE VII.

1. The general examinations under the first clause of Rule VI for admission to the service shall be limited to the following subjects: 1st. Orthography, penmanship, and copying. 2d. Arithmetic-fundamental rules, fractions, and percentage. 3d. Interest, discount, and elements of book-keeping and of accounts. 4th. Elements of the English language, letter-writing, and the proper construction of sentences. 5th. Elements of the geography, history, and government of the United States.

2. Proficiency in any subject upon which an examination shall be held shall be credited in grading the standing of the persons examined in proportion to the value of a knowledge of such subject in the branch or part of the service which the applicant seeks to enter.

3. No one shall be entitled to be certified for appointment whose standing upon a just grading in the general examination shall be less than sixty-five per centum of complete proficiency in the first three subjects mentioned in this rule, and that measure of proficiency shall be deemed adequate.

4. For places in which a lower degree of education will suffice, the commission may limit the examinations to less than the five subjects above mentioned; but no person shall be certified for appointment, under this clause, whose grading shall be less than an average of sixty-five per centum on such of the first three subjects or parts thereof as the examination may embrace.

5. The commission may also order examinations upon other subjects of a technical or special character, to test the capacity which may be needed in any part of the classified service which requires peculiar information or skill. Examinations hereunder may be competitive or non-competitive, and the maximum limitations of age