Certifica

tion of pay-

rolls.

No payment of salary or compensation shall be made to any person holding a position in either of the Schedules A, B and D, unless his name be upon the Civil List, and unless the requisition or warrant for such payment show the schedule of such person appearing upon the Civil List. This, however, shall not prevent the payment of laborers or day workmen not yet upon the Civil List, whose pending employment has commenced not more than one month before the payment. It shall be the duty of the Civil Service Commission, or of its Secretary under its direction, to examine and duly verify every pay-roll, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Regulation.

No payment shall be made by the city or any of its officers to a person holding a position subject to the Civil Service Regulations of the State, and the laws in pursuance of which the same were made, until it appears that his appointment was made before such Regulations took effect or has been made agreeably to the same.

Every appointment, as soon as proper notice of the same is received by the Secretary of the Commission, shall be immediately entered on the Civil List under the proper division. And every death, resignation, removal or promotion of any person, whose name is on the Civil List, shall be noted thereon.

It shall be the duty of every officer of the city to render to the Commission every proper assistance in the preparation of the Civil List.

Registration, Certification and Appointment of Persons in Schedule D.

Regulation XLVIII.

examina

tion.

Appointments coming within Schedule D shall be Physical made as follows: All persons applying for such appointment shall be registered or enrolled on eligible lists, to be made and kept by the Commission for that purpose. No person shall be so registered or enrolled unless he shall be found by the Commission to be physically qualified, and unless he shall make written application, in such form as the Commission shall determine, for such registration or enrollment, indorsed by two reputable citizens of Brooklyn. No person shall be so registered or enrolled who is not at resident of Brooklyn at the time of his application, unless the Commission shall determine that the good of the public service otherwise requires, and upon such determination at any time, and from time to time, persons who are not residents of Brooklyn may be registered and enrolled upon any list or lists designated by the Commission, and upon such conditions and terms as the Commission may prescribe. From and after the adoption of this regulation, no appointment to positions under Schedule D shall be made except from the said lists. Upon receiving a requisition from any head of department, the Commission shall certify from said lists, double the number of names called for, and the said officer shall select the number required from the number so certified and report to the Commission the names selected. Any names not so selected shall remain upon said lists, and any names so selected shall, upon the termination of the employment, be restored to said lists in the order in which they originally stood thereon, unless the head of the department shall certify in writing that such person

Veterans preferred.

is disqualified for cause stated. In making such certification the Commission shall certify in the order of registration or enrollment: First, veterans with families; second, other veterans; third, men with families; fourth, other men. The same name shall not be certified to the same official more than twice in any one calendar year, unless at the request of such official. In making said list the Commission shall subdivide them so that applicants for general or any particular kind of labor shall be registered or enrolled under separate subdivisions or lists, but no person shall be enrolled on more than two separate lists or subdivisions unless the Commission shall otherwise direct. Any head of department making a requisition shall state the particular kind of labor to be done and the names shall be certified in the order named above, from the subdivision covering such particular kind of labor. If there be no subdivision covering such particular kind of labor, or if the names in such subdivision be exhausted, the names shall, except as may be otherwise provided by the Commission, be so certified from the subdivision covering general labor, unless the head of department making a requisition shall designate some other subdivision, and there shall be names enough thereon to comply with the requisition, and in such case the certification shall be made from such subdivision.

All women applying for positions under Schedule D shall be registered and enrolled on a separate list; and upon a requisition of a head of department their names shall be certified, as in the case of men, in the order of enrollment: First, widows, with families; second, single women, including widows without families; third, married women.

The lists above provided for shall remain in force for one year, but all persons thereon shall, upon

making written application therefor, be placed on the list for the succeeding year in the order of their enrollment or registration on the previous lists.

The said Commission may, in its discretion, upon the request of any appointing officer, certify only such persons as are under or over an age to be specified by such officer in his requisition.

The said Commission may, if it deems it desirable at any time, provide for dividing the city into districts, and for making separate lists of laborers residing in each of such districts, and may also provide the manner in which requisitions for laborers may be made from the said lists. Said Commission may also at any time in its discretion, consolidate such lists, or any of them into one or more lists.

The said Commission may, from time to time, prescribe such rules as it may think desirable or convenient for carrying out the intention of this Regulation, and may in its discretion provide for the temporary employment of persons not on a list, in case of the exhaustion of any list or lists, and for such other matters or things pertaining to the administration of this Regulation as said Commission may from time to time find proper.

Rules of the Civil Service Commission.

Rule I. Meetings of the Commission shall be regularly held on the first Wednesday of every month, excepting July and August, at 5 P. M. Meetings shall also, upon the direction of the Chairman, or of any other two members of the Commission, be called by the Secretary, who shall, in writing, notify every Commissioner of every meeting and of every adjournment of a meeting.

When a majority of the Commission does not attend a meeting, a less number may adjourn the meeting, and may direct, meantime, the suspension of any act or proceeding of the Commission, or any of its committees, or of its Chairman or Secretary, to consider which the meeting was called.

Rule II. Each examination shall be conducted. by a committee consisting of two members, to be designated by the Commission.

Rule III.—The action of every committee shall be deemed to be the action of the Commission, and shall be reported to the Commission at the next regular meeting held thereafter. Upon a written complaint by a person directly aggrieved, verified by his affidavit and filed with the Secretary, as to the action of a committee, or upon a written motion therefor by a Commissioner, the Commission may reverse or modify such action.

Rule IV. No certificate of names upon an eligible list shall be sent to any officer or department for appointment therefrom, until two days after an eligible list is signed by the Chairman and announced. If before the expiration of that time any written complaint by a person directly aggrieved, and verified by affidavit, be filed with the Secretary concerning such eligible list, the Secretary shall at once call a meeting of the Commission, to be held within three days, to consider and act upon the complaint; no certificate for appointment to be meantime issued.

Rule V.-Except as hereinbefore provided, no certificate for appointment shall be suspended upon any complaint or motion, unless upon the direction of the Chairman or of the Commission.