of such appointment, employment or promotion before certifying or rendering any account for the services of such person. Where the payment for the services in any position in the Civil Service is not payable from the State treasury nor subject to audit by the Comptroller, the notification as above of any appointment employment or promotion to or in such position, shall be duly made to the fiscal officer empowered by law to pay the account for such services.

RULE 44.

Persons who have been honorably discharged from the army or navy of the United States in the late war, and whose qualifications and fitness have been ascertained under these rules, by competitive examination, shall be preferred for appointments to positions in the Civil Service of the State over all other persons, though graded lower than the others so examined, and the persons thus preferred shall not be disqualified from holding any position in the Civil Service on account of their age nor by reason of any physical disability, provided such age or disability does not render them incompetent to perform the duties of the position applied for.

When not more than three honorably discharged soldiers or sailors, whose qualifications and fitness have been ascertained by competitive examination under the rules, shall be on the eligible list at the time a requisition shall be made for an appointment, the names of all such soldiers or sailors with a specification of their respective grades in such examination, shall be certified to the appointing officer, but when more than three names of such honorably discharged soldiers or sailors shall be on the eligible list, there shall be certified for such appointment not more than two names in excess of the number of places to be filled, and in all such cases the appointment shall be made from among those, not exceeding three in number, thus certified, who are graded highest as the result of competitive examination. (Chapter 410, Laws of 1884, amended by chapter 29, Laws of 1886.)

RULE 45.

Subject only to the qualifications required to be ascertained in accordance with these rules, the power of appointment and the responsibility of selection are in all cases in the appointing officer. The power to remove (existing by law) on the part of any officer is not impaired by anything contained in these rules.

RULE 46.

The Commission will cause to be published at such regular periods as it may deem proper, a gazette of all appointments, promotions, resignations, removals and other changes in the Civil Service, and in case of appointment may publish the names of the persons certifying the good character of the appointee.

RULE 47.

The Commission will make appropriate regulations for carrying these rules into effect, and may prescribe blank forms for all applications, certificates, records and returns required under the rules or regulations made in pursuance thereof.

I have compared the preceding with the original rules for the Civil Service on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original rules.

Given under my hand and seal of office of the Secretary of State, at the city of Albany, this 8th day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

JOSEPH B. CARR,
Secretary of State.

GENERAL REGULATIONS

OF THE

NEW YORK CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

THE CHIEF EXAMINER.

1. The chief examiner shall, so far as practicable, attend the examinations held by the several boards of examiners for positions in Schedule B and C.

He shall take care to secure accuracy, uniformity and justice in the proceedings of all examiners and boards of examiners under the rules and regulations, and such proceedings and all papers appertaining thereto shall at all times be open to him. He shall also from time to time inspect the proceedings and papers connected with examinations for the Civil Service of cities held pursuant to the eighth section of the Civil Service Act, and shall make report of such inspections to the Commission.

2. He shall prepare and submit to the Commission proper schemes for examinations, and forms for blanks and records.

He shall take care that the rules and regulations are complied with and shall bring any case of their infraction or of injustice or irregularity observed by him to the attention of the Commission. It shall be his duty, from time to time, to confer with the heads of departments, offices and institutions in the State service, concerning the regularity, sufficiency and convenience of the examinations for the service under them. He shall perform such other appropriate duties as may be specified in these regulations, or otherwise assigned to him by the Commission.

THE SECRETARY.

3. The secretary shall keep the minutes of the proceedings of the Commission, and have charge of and be responsible for the safekeeping of the books, records, papers and other property in its office. He shall make the proper certification of those eligible for appointment or employment in positions in Schedules B and C. He shall generally conduct the correspondence of the Commission and perform such other appropriate duties as it may assign to him.

THE STENOGRAPHER.

4. The stenographer shall perform such appropriate duties as may be assigned to him by the Commission, or under its direction, by the chief examiner and secretary.

EXAMINERS.

5. Regular boards of examiners will consist of three members, one of whom shall act as secretary, and two of whom may conduct an examination in the necessary absence of the third. The secretary shall keep a complete record of the proceedings of the board and of all the examinations held by it in such form as the Commission may prescribe.

6. The chief examiner shall, subject to the Commission, issue authority for holding examinations for positions in Schedules B and C, and shall prepare questions and supervise other preliminary arrangements for such examinations.

7. The boards of examiners will conduct the examinations and estimate and mark the standing of the persons competing, or in a non-competitive examination shall estimate the qualifications of the person examined, and in both cases shall transmit all the papers with their report to the Commission.

8. Whenever the special qualifications required for a position are of an expert or professional character, the Commission will give to the examining board such advice and assistance from competent sources as may be expedient and available.

9. Boards of examiners for positions in Schedule D shall examine such persons as are named to them in writing by any officer authorized to employ persons in the positions in that schedule, and shall only certify such as satisfy the qualifications for such positions as prescribed by the rules and regulations. They shall report to the Commission the names of persons examined by them with other pertinent information, on forms furnished for that purpose, and will keep on file the minutes of their proceedings, with all papers connected therewith, which shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the Commission and its agents.

10. Special boards will be selected and special regulations for examinations will be issued by the Commission in such cases as it may deem expedient.

11. No examiner or person serving under the Commission must attempt to influence the selection, nomination or appointment of any person for the Civil Service.

12. Care must be taken by examiners to preserve order and decorum at examinations, and to prevent such visitors as they may admit by conversation or otherwise to obstruct or distract those being examined.

13. Examiners must not disclose for public information, unless by consent of those examined, more than the general results of examinations, without the details of answers given.

14. Any person after receiving official notification of his standing, as ascertained by a competitive examination, may in person, or by duly authorized agent, inspect in the presence of the chief examiner, or the secretary of the Commission, his examination papers and the markings thereon.

15. Complaints which show any injustice or unfairness on the part of any examiner or examining board, or by any one acting under the Commission, will be considered by the Commission, which reserves the right to revise the marking and grading on the papers, or order a new examination, or otherwise act as substantial justice in the premises may require.

16. For the purpose of examinations, examiners are authorized by the last clause of the third section of the Civil Service Act to request the use of suitable rooms in public buildings and the lighting and the heating of the same. In all cases the requisition for such accommodations should be in writing, reciting the provision of law above referred to, and denoting the amount of room required, and should be addressed to the State, county, city, town or village officer having custody of the public building. School-rooms are generally those best adapted for examinations.

17. Accounts for examiners (who are not otherwise in the Civil Service) for services and for reimbursement for necessary expenditures should be rendered in the forms prescribed and sent to the Commission for approval before payment.

APPLICATIONS FOR POSITIONS.

18. Applications for admission to competitive examinations for positions in Schedule B, will be directed to the "Civil Service Commission, Albany, N. Y." Blank forms for such applications and for the requisite certificates will be furnished upon request, which should specify the position in the service sought by the appliAll applications for positions in Schedules A, C and D must be made to the head of the department, office or institution wherein the position is sought.

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19. The Commission cannot advise persons as to vacancies in the service, nor furnish any information as to the duties, salaries, course of promotion, or other conditions of positions, except such as may be found in printed regulations. No advice can be given as to the course of preparation that applicants should follow, nor can specimens of the examination papers be furnished.

20. All application papers and accompanying certificates will remain on file in the office of the Commission, and under no circumstances or conditions will the originals be returned to the applicant, EXAMINATIONS.

1. Competitive.

21. Applicants will be admitted to examination upon the produc tion of the official notification to appear for that purpose. Each applicant will receive a number, which will be indorsed upon his