SPECIAL RULE NO. 3.

Appointments to the 150 places in the pension office provided to be filled by the act of July 7, 1884, except so far as they may be filled by promotions, must be separately apportioned, by the appointing power in as near conformity to the second section of the act of January 16, 1883, as the need of filling them promptly and the residence and qualifications of the applicants will permit.

Approved July 22, 1884.

SPECIAL RULE NO. 4.

Appointments to the 150 places in the pension office provided to be filled by the act of March 3, 1885, except so far as they may be filled by promotions or transfers, must be separately appointed by the appointing power in as near conformity to the second section of the act of January 16, 1883, as the need of filling them promptly and the residence and qualifications of the applicants will permit.

Approved July 16, 1885.

SPECIAL RULE No. 5.

Special Rule No. 2 approved July 18, 1884, is hereby revoked. All applicants on any register for the postal or customs service who, on the first day of November next, shall have been thereon one year or more, shall, in conformity with rule 16, be no longer eligible for appointment from such register,

Approved October 1, 1885.

[EXHIBIT 2.]

CIVIL-SERVICE REGULATIONS.

[These are the regulations to which reference is made in the text of report. They have been superseded by regulations in effect March 1, 1888. See pp. 186-201.]

The United States Civil-Service Commission, acting under the authority of the civil-service act of January 16, 1883, and the rules promulgated by the President, makes the following regulations:

CHIEF EXAMINER.

Regulation 1. The chief examiner shall, as far as directed by the commission, attend the examinations held by the several boards of examiners. He shall take care to secure accuracy, uniformity, and justice in all their proceedings, which shall at all times be open to him; but leaving the duty of the examiners, in marking and grading those examined, unimpaired. The commission will, in its discretion, designate one of its own members, or request the detail of a suitable person, to supervise examinations whenever deemed needful.

Regulation 2. He shall prepare and submit to the approval of the commission proper forms and questions. He shall take care that the rules and regulations relating to his duties are complied with, and bring every case of injustice and irregularity observed by him to the attention of the commission. He shall take such part as the commission shall assign him in the work at Washington. It shall be his duty to confer, from time to time, with the heads of the postal and customs offices which he officially visits concerning the regularity, sufficiency, and convenience of the examinations for the service under them.

SECRETARY.

Regulation 3. The secretary shall keep the minutes of the proceedings of the commission and have charge of and be responsible for the safe-keeping of the books, records, papers, and other property in its office. He shall make the proper certification of those eligible for the departmental service. He shall generally conduct the correspondence of the commission and perform such other appropriate duties as it may assign to him.

BOARDS OF EXAMINERS.

Regulation 4. The general board of examiners for the departmental service shall consist of three persons from the Treasury Department, two from the War Department, one from the Navy Department, two from the Postoffice Department, two from the Interior Department, one from the Department of Justice, one from the Department of Agriculture, and such members as the commission may designate. But any members, not less than three, may be designated by the commission to constitute the acting examining board for any examination, general, special, or supplementary.

The secretary of the board of examiners for the departmental service shall keep a record of its proceedings and have charge of its papers.

Regulation 5. In case of examinations to be held at other places than those having a classified service, the commission will designate au examining board for that pur

pose.

Regulation 6. For each pos. ffice, the board of examiners shall consist of not less than three nor more than five persons.

Regulation 7. The general board of examiners for each customs district shall consist of two or more persons selected from the office of the collector, and one or more from each of the other customs offices which are subject to the rules; but if there be no office subject thereto except that of the collector, the examiners shall be selected from his office: Provided, That no such board shall have more than nine members. Regulation 8. Three examiners may serve as a board for conducting any examination; and the examiners for any customs district or postoffice will, subject to the direction of the commission, determine which three shall hold any examination, taking care that, if an examination is wholly or mainly for any office, one or more of the examiners from that office shall be on the acting board. In case of a failure or disagreement as to which three shall be the board for any examination, the commission or chief examiner shall designate the local examiners who shall serve. In case of the disability or absence of one of the three exarainers constituting any board, the other two may conduct the examination.

DUTIES OF EXAMINING BOARDS.

Regulation 9. Each examining board shall have a chairman and secretary, to be selected by the commission. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep a complete record of the proceedings of the board and of all examinations held. He shall also keep the record of applicants and examinations, and the register of persons eligible for appointment, and all other records required. He shall have charge of all books and papers belonging to the board and shall be responsible to the commission for their safe-keeping. On application of the proper appointing officer, he shall certify to such officer, in conformity to the rules and the directions of the commission, the names of the four persons of highest grade remaining on the register, except in such cases as the commission may otherwise direct. He shall also answer all proper requests for application blanks, and send due notifications to applicants to be examined, and shall give all other notices required.

Regulation 10. Neither the commissioners nor any examiner or other persons serving under them shall attempt to control or influence, in any manner, appointments, removals, or promotions; nor can they receive or transmit to appointing officers any letters of request, certificates, or recommendations other than those provided in the application paper; and all such unauthorized letters, certificates, and recommendations must be deposited with the commission.

Regulation 11. Care must be taken by the examiners to preserve order, and not to allow such visitors as they may admit, nor any conversation or other cause, to obstruct or distract those being examined.

Regulation 12. Examiners must not disclose, unless by consent, the names of those examined, or the grade they obtain. The relative standing of persons on the registers of eligibles must not be disclosed to any person without the consent of the commission, as such disclosure may work a defeat of the purpose of the law in excluding influence and in securing the appointment of the most worthy.

Regulation 13. The board of examiners for each office or district must promptly notify the commission of the need of holding an examination in and for such office or district, and may suggest a time for the same, but subject to any change the commission may find it necessary to make for the more convenient and effective discharge of its duty to see that the examinations are accurate, uniform, and just. The notice must state under which clause or clauses of Rule VII the applicants are to be examined, and must, when practicable, be given at least twenty days before the time appointed therein for the examinations.

DUTIES OF HEADS OF OFFICES.

Regulation 14. The head of each post-office and of each customs office, to which the rules are applicable, should inform the local board of examiners of probable va

cancies, that examination for filling them may be held in due season, and (as contemplated by rule 18) should promptly inform the board of examiners for his office of the name of every person refusing an appointment or employment, or who shall be appointed to or employed in the classified service under him (giving the date of the appointment and the designation of the office or place), and of the name of every person rejected or finally appointed or employed after probation, including the date thereof, and of the promotion, removal, discharge, resignation, transfer, or death of every such person.

Regulation 15. Whenever any officer in the customs or postal service to whom a certification has been made shall object in writing to any person in such certification because of ill-health or physical incapacity, specifying the same, the person so objected to shall furnish such officer a certificate of the nearest medical officer of the revenue marine or marine hospital service, or other physician approved by the secretary of the board of examiners, declaring him physically competent for the position sought; in the case of failure to furnish such certificate another name shall be substituted in the certification. Such certification shall count as one of the three due such person. All such cases shall be reported promptly to the commission.

Regulation 16. The secretary of the board of examiners must sign and deliver to the applicant objected to the appropriate blank form, addressed to the proper medical officer or selected physician, for such applicant to take to that officer for the purpose of procuring the required certificate, and such applicant shall be allowed three days after such delivery to him to furnish the completed certificate.

EXAMINATIONS.

Regulation 17. Notices in writing should be mailed to applicants for examination in the postal and customs service at least eight days before the examination, and they shall clearly specify the place and the time, including the hour, of holding the same. Regulation 18. All competitive examinations for admission to the civil service shall be in writing with ink, except that tests of physical qualities or expertness may be added as the commission shall approve.

. Regulation 19. The examination sheets will commonly be given out in the order of their numbers; each, after the first, being given only when the applicant shall return the examiners the last sheet taken by him. In case of the accidental spoiling of a sheet a duplicate may be given in its place.

Regulation 20. Not more than ten questions shall be given in any subject, except in special examinations. Care shall be taken that the time allotted for the examination shall be reasonably sufficient for answering the questions.

In general no competitive examination shall occupy more than five hours, except in the case of special examinations.

Regulation 21. The examination papers of each applicant shall be marked only with a number, and his name with his number shall be placed in a sealed envelope, which shall not be opened until after his papers are marked.

POSTAL EXAMINATIONS.

Regulation 22. The examinations for clerks in the postal service shall embrace suitable questions in the first, second, fourth, and fifth subjects mentioned in clause 1, rule 7.

The examinations for carriers shall embrace suitable questions in the first and second subjects, and in the geography of the fifth.

Examinations for porters, pilers, stamp-boys or junior clerks, and messengers, or other employés whose work is chiefly manual, may be limited to the first and second subjects, including only the four elementary rules of arithmetic.

CUSTOMS EXAMINATIONS.

Regulation 23. The examinations for clerks, including store-keepers, in the customs service, shall embrace the five subjects mentioned in clause 1, Rule VII.

Examinations for inspectors shall embrace suitable questions in the first, second, fourth, and geography of the fifth subjects.

Examinations for night inspectors and messengers may be limited to the first and second subjects.

Examinations for weighers and gaugers shall embrace the first and second subjects, and such additional practical and theoretical questions and tests as the commission may direct.

Examinations for examiners may embrace the first, second, and fourth subjects, and such supplementary technical subjects as may be needed in each case.

FRAUDS AND DISQUALIFICATIONS.

Regulation 24. Every examiner will exercise all due diligence to secure fairness, and to prevent all collusion or fraud in the examinations.

In case the board of examiners shall find that any applicant has made material misrepresentations of facts for the purpose of securing an examination or preference, or has been guilty of bad faith or fraud, either during an examination or in order to cause advantage or prejudice to any applicant, and also in case prima facie evidence shall be presented to the board of examiners that any person on a record is, by reason of criminal, infamous, or profligate conduct, not a fit person to be examined or marked, or, if on a register, to be certified, it will be the duty of the board to report upon the matter fully and promptly to the commission, and the marking, grading, or certification of such person may be suspended pending the action of the commission upon the subject.

Regulation 25. Upon such report to the commission, or such evidence otherwise appearing before it, the commission will make the proper investigation and give appropriate direction to the board of examiners.

Regulation 26. In case a person upon any register shall, by reason of ill health or physical incapacity, become manifestly disqualified for the service for which he or she is registered, the commission may direct that such person be not certified; and the commission must be promptly informed by the proper examining boards of each case of such disqualification.

Regulation 27. The commission will promptly, hear any explanation or objection which the applicant affected by such suspension or refusal of an examination, marking, or certification may wish to present, and will facilitate any appropriate appeal he or she may make.

CERTIFICATION OF PERSONS DEFECTIVE IN SIGHT, SPEECH, ETC.

Regulation 23. A person so defective in sight, speech, hearing, or otherwise as to be apparently disqualified for some of the duties of the part of the service which he or she seeks to enter, may, after their names have been reached on the register, be placed on certification from time to time in addition to the proper number of names thereon in the usual course; the nature of the defects to be plainly noted on the certification.

MARKING AND GRADING.

Regulation 29. The examination papers shall, so far as practicable, be reviewed separately by each examiner who takes part in the marking, and in any case of disagreement the average of the markings, to be made on the papers by all, shall be the final marking on each question, subject to the regulation as to revision.

Regulation 30. To determine the standing of the applicant in any subject, credieach answer in proportion to its completeness and accuracy according to the direct tions prescribed for each subject; the perfect answer being credited 100. Divide the sum of the credits by the number of questions upon the subject; the quotient will be the applicant's standing in that subject.