SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS. CHAP. 357. AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and fifty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the state of New York." PASSED May 24, 1884 three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. (Amends section three of chapter three hundred and fifty-four, Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three.) § 2. (Amends section four of chapter three hundred and fifty-four, Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three.) § 3. (Amends section eleven of chapter three hundred and fifty-four, Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three.) § 4. (Amends section twelve of chapter three hundred and fifty-four, Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three.) § 5. (Amends section sixteen of chapter three hundred and fiftyfour, Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three.) § 6. The sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any unexpended balance in the treasury, to meet any expense incurred by section five of this act; which expense the treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller. § 7. Section ten of said act is hereby repealed. * § 8. The election officers now in office, and the inspectors of election and poll clerks shall be exempt from examination in accordance with the act hereby amended, or the amendments thereof, and it shall be the duty of the commissioners and mayors of cities so to provide in regulations made under said act. 9. This act shall take effect immediately. * Refers to section ten of chapter three hundred and fifty-four, Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three. CHAP. 410. AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and fifty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the state of New York." PASSED May 29, 1884; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. (Amends section five of chapter three hundred and fifty-four, Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three.) § 2. (Amends section eight of chapter three hundred and fifty-four, Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty three.) § 3. Where before the passage of this act the mayor of any city herein mentioned has prescribed regulations pursuant to the power given him by the act hereby amended, such regulations shall be deemed to be established and prescribed and to be operative as if established, prescribed, and approved under the provisions of the said act as hereby amended; and the examiners who before the passage of this act have by the mayor of any such city been appointed or designated under the provisions of the said act, shall be deemed to be appointed and to have all the powers and duties which they would have if appointed under the provisions of the said act as hereby amended. § 4. In grateful recognition of the services, sacrifices and sufferings of persons who served in the army or navy of the United States in the late war, and have been honorably discharged therefrom, they shall be preferred for appointment to positions in the civil service of the state and of the cities affected by this act over other persons (of equal standing) as ascertained under this act and the act hereby amended, and the person thus preferred shall not be disqualified from holding any position in said civil service on account of his age nor by reason of any physical disability, provided such disability does not render him incompetent to perform the duties of the position applied for. STATE OF NEW YORK: EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, ALBANY, June 30, 1884. ernor In the exercise of the authority conferred upon the Govby Chapter 354, Laws of 1883, entitled "An Act to regulate and improve the Civil Service of the State of New York," and the acts amendatory thereof, regu I, Grover Cleveland, Governor of the State of New York, do hereby promulgate the following Rules for the lation of the Civil Service of the said State, and all officers and in the Civil Service of the State and persons seeking to enter said Service will persons govern themselves accordingly. Done at the Capitol in the City of Albany, this the 30th day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four. Grover Cleveland. RULE I. In these rules, and the regulations thereunder, the term "Commission" indicates the Civil Service Commission of the State of New York, and the terms "class," "subdivision" and "grade" are those established by the classification of the civil service of the State, approved by the Governor, September 3, 1883, and the positions now comprised in, or hereafter entered in, such classification shall, in the aggregate, be taken as the civil service of the State referred to herein, and the term "public service" shall be taken to comprehend all persons in the service of the State, without regard to such classification. RULE II. No person in the public service is, for that reason, under any obligation to contribute to any political fund or purpose, or to render any political service, and no person shall be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing so to do. RULE III. No person in the public service has the right to use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body. RULE IV. For the purpose of indicating the manner in which selections shall be made for filling the positions in the civil service, when vacant, such positions shall be enrolled by class, subdivision, grade or name in some one of the five schedules, designated respectively as A, B, C, D, and E, which schedules are hereunto annexed and form a part of these rules. The right is reserved to transfer, hereafter, any position from one schedule to another, as, from time to time, the conditions of good administration or the general interests of the public service may require, in which case, prompt publication of any such transfer will be made to all concerned. RULE V. Schedule A shall include the deputies of principal officers, duly au thorized by law to act for their principals; all officers, clerks and others whose official relations are necessarily strictly confidential to the head of the office in which they serve; officers or others under official bonds as security for the collection, custody or disbursement of public moneys, or who, by virtue of their position, have the custody of public moneys for the safe-keeping of which any officer must give bonds, and such other positions as may now or hereafter be included in this schedule, according to law, and such schedule shall comprise the following positions: CLASS I. In the Governor's office, the private secretary, the pardon clerk and the stenographer; in the office of the Secretary of State, the deputy secretary; in the office of the Comptroller, the deputy comptroller and confidential clerk; in the office of the Treasurer, the deputy treasurer, the chief clerk, the book-keeper and the pay clerk; in the office of the Attorney-General, the two deputies and the confidential clerk; in the office of the State Engineer and Surveyor, the deputy; the deputy superintendent of public instruction; the deputy superintendent and special examiners of the banking department; in the Insurance Department, the deputy, the chief clerk, the actuary and the private secretary; in the Department of Public Works, the three assistant superintendents, the special agent and the financial clerk; the clerk of the Superintendent of Prisons; the clerk, deputy |