position to be filled is a clerkship, the appointing officer shall state whether it is a minor clerkship, or whether any of the special qualifications denoted by the optional subjects are required, and, if so,

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The Secretary shall thereupon, as soon as practicable, certify to the appointing officer for appointment, or for promotion, from the eligible list appropriate to such position as it may then exist, the three persons having the highest standing on such eligible list, indicating such of them, if any, as have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States in the late The certificate of the Secretary shall, in all cases, state the percentage of the maximum obtained by each of the persons certified. If the appointing officer shall notify the Secretary of more than one vacancy at any time, the Secretary shall certify to the appointing officer for appointment or for promotion, as the case may be, the names of as many persons as there are vacancies to be filled, with the addition of two names. No requisition for names to fill more than ten vacancies shall be made at any one time.

The appointing officer shall thereupon fill said vacancy or vacancies by the appointment of one or more of the persons so certified. Until such appointment has been made to all positions for which names have been certified, or until said certification has been cancelled, no new certification shall be made to fill said vacant position or positions. In all cases the vacancies shall be so filled within fifteen days after the receipt by the appointing power of the names certified by the Secretary, and the Secretary shall be at once notified by the appointing power of the appointments or promotions so made. No certification shall be in force for a longer period than fifteen days, and at the end of said fifteen days, such certification shall be cancelled by the Secretary, and the department making the requisition shall be notified accordingly.

Whenever the appointing officer, who shall have made a requisition to fill a certain number of vacancies, shall appoint or promote to office a number smaller than that of the vacancies named

by him, he shall not make the selection therefrom from the whole number certified to him, but only from that number of names standing highest upon the list that would have been certified to him had the requisition stated the number of vacancies which he actually filled.

When a requisition is made for certification to a position which has not been classified, or one for which no eligible list exists, the Chief Examiner shall report to the Commission whether, in his opinion, the qualifications demanded have been determined by examination held for eligible lists which are on hand. The Commission may thereupon order that certification for said positions shall be made from one of the eligible lists so indicated.

If the appointing officer shall signify that attainment in one or more of the optional subjects is essential, the Secretary shall certify the names of the three persons whose standing on the denoted optional subject is the highest. The Examining Board may, at any time, hold a competitive examination to fill a vacancy of this kind, if, in their judgment, the eligible list does not contain three persons well qualified to fill the vacant position.

If the appointing officer shall object to an eligible named in the certificate, stating that, because of some physical defect, mental unsoundness, moral disqualification, or other reason particularly specified, said eligible would be incompetent or unfit for the performance of the duties of the vacant position, and if said officer shall sustain such objection with evidence satisfactory to the Commission, the Commission may certify the eligible on the register whose name stands next below those already certified, in place of the one to whom objection is made and sustained.

All positions filled by selections based on optional or special subjects shall be specially noticed in the published list of appointments and in the official registry of qualifications and schemes for examination as being special positions in respect to such qualifications.

This regulation shall not apply to any of the positions for which provision is otherwise made in Regulation 62.

If a person who is not entitled to certification is certified and appointed, his appointment shall be immediately revoked by the appointing officer upon notification by the Commission.

REGULATION 31.

Notice shall, within five days from the date of appointment, be given in writing by the appointing power to the Secretary, of the person or persons selected for employment or appointment from among those who have been examined, of the place of residence of such persons, of the rejection of any such persons after probation, of transfers, resignations and removals, and of the date thereof, and a record of the same shall be kept by said Secretary. In all cases where the positions are graded according to the compensation received, and such grading determines the character of an examination, the appointing power shall, in addition to the foregoing, notify the Secretary of the rate of compensation to be paid to the person appointed.

REGULATION 32.

No person on the eligible list shall be certified more than three times to the same appointing officer for the same bureau or institution, except at the request of said appointing officer, nor shall the name of any person remain upon the eligible list for appointment or promotion longer than one year from the date on which it is entered on such list, unless, in the interest of the public service, the Commission shall extend the time during which the eligible list upon which his name appears shall be in force.

The name of any person may be stricken from the eligible list for cause satisfactory to the Commission, to be specified in the minutes of the Commission, and subject to revision by the Mayor.

No person, while on the eligible list for any position, shall be allowed to take his or her name off said list for the purpose of entering another examination to increase his or her rating, except at the end of nine months from the date of examination, without the consent of the Commission.

REGULATION 33.

All appointments made under these regulations, except under Schedule G, shall be forwarded to the City Record for publication. within five days.

REGULATION 34.

Temporary appointments may be made from persons not on the eligible lists, but only as follows: In the Department of Street Cleaning temporary appointments of captains and pilots may be made without examination for a period not exceeding thirty days. In the office of the Receiver of Taxes temporary appointments may be made without examination, as they have been heretofore commonly made during the busy season for the collection of taxes. When there is no eligible list for the position for which a requisition is made and upon receipt of a certificate to that effect from the Secretary of the Civil Service Commission, any department may make a temporary appointment to said position for a period not exceeding thirty days. The right of said appointee to retain such position shall cease within five (5) days of the receipt by the department so appointing of a notice from the Secretary of the Civil Service Commission, that an eligible list is ready. Every temporary appointment under this regulation must be reported to the Secretary of the Civil Service Commission within five days, with the reason for the same. No person shall be eligible to a temporary appointment who has failed in an examination for the position to which said temporary appointment is made. If any person is employed under a temporary appointment at the time of said failure to pass, such employment shall cease within five days after a notice sent by the Secretary to the head of the department in which he is employed.

Probation.

REGULATION 35.

All employment in positions under any of the schedules, except Schedule G, shall be provisional, and such provisional service shall continue six months, except in Schedule C, when it shall be

for one month, during which period the person so employed may at any time be peremptorily discharged from service. If during that period (subject as to Policemen and Firemen to Regulation 58) the conduct and character of the appointee are found satisfactory to the appointing officer, he shall, at the close thereof, receive an appointment, but otherwise his employment shall cease. Anyone failing to receive appointment at the end of six months, except in the case of an appointment to a position the duties of which are completed before the end of the six months herein mentioned, shall be ineligible for one year for appointment in the municipal service in any department.

REGULATION 36.

Every officer under whom any person shall serve during any part of the probation provided for by these regulations shall carefully observe the quality and value of the service rendered by such person and shall report to the appointing officer, in writing, the facts observed by him, showing the character and qualifications of such person and of the services performed by him, and such reports shall be preserved on file.

Promotion.

REGULATION 37.

Promotions from the lower grades to the higher shall be on the basis of merit and competition.

REGULATION 38.

Except as herein otherwise provided the positions in the various schedules shall be filled, when vacant, by the promotion of those in the service in lower grades in the department, office or institution in which the vacancy or vacancies may occur. Promotions shall be made, subject to the provisions of these regulations, by the officer or officers having the power of appointment. If in the judgment of such officer or officers, there be none found in the lower grades fit to perform the duties in such vacant positions, in