clerk and reporter of the Court of Appeals; the secretaries of the Railroad Commission, the Board of Health, the Board of Charities, the Commissioners of Emigration, and the Civil Service Commission; the chief examiner of the Civil Service; the treasurers of asylums; the game and fish protectors, and the Superinendent of Public Buildings.

RULE VI.

The appointments to positions comprised in schedule A may be made without examination under these rules, but such examinations may be had upon the request of the appointing officer. Appointing officers must notify the Commission, in writing, of all appointments to such positions within five days after the same are made.

RULE VII.

Schedule B shall include the following:

CLASS I.

All clerks and other persons of whatever designation, rendering services similar to those of clerks in any branch of the State services, in the following grades:

SUBDIVISION I.

First Grade.

Clerks and like employees receiving an annual compensation of less than $1,000.

Second Grade.

Clerks and like employees receiving an annual compensation of $1,000 or more, but less than $1,200.

Third Grade.

Clerks and like employees receiving an annual compensation of $1,200 or more, but less than $1,500.

CLASS III.

IN SUBDIVISION III.

Office messengers and orderlies in the courts, offices and public buildings at Albany.

In department of Public Works.

CLASS IV.

SUBDIVISION II.

Inspectors of boats and cargoes.

CLASS VI.

In prisons and reformatories.

SUBDIVISION III.

First Grade.

Guards in prisons and reformatories.

SUBDIVISION V.

First Grade.

Teachers in reformatories receiving an annual compensation of less than $500.

CLASS VII.

In asylums, hospitals and similar institutions and by the Commissioners of Emigration.

SUBDIVISION VII.

First Grade.

Teachers receiving an annual compensation of less than $500.

RULE VIII.

Appointments shall be made or employment shall be given in the positions in schedule B by selection from those persons graded highest as the results of open competitive examinations.

RULE IX.

The competitive examinations shall be practical in their characterand with paramount regard to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined for the service which they seek to enter. The examinations shall be held at such times and places as the Commission may designate, and ten days' pre vious notice of each examination will be mailed to all eligible applicants of record. Special regulations, in which the particular conditions (if any) of the examination will be specified, will be issued, when deemed expedient by the Commission, prior to the examinations.

RULE X.

All regular applications for admission to such competitive examinations will be on blanks in a form prescribed by the Commission and the applicant must state therein on oath, and in his own handwriting : 1. His full name, residence and post-office address. 2. His term of residence in this State. 3. His citizenship. 4. His date of birth. 5. His place of birth. 6. His previous employment in the public service, if any. 7. His business or employment for the last preceding five years. 8. His education. 9. If in the military or naval service of the United States in the late war, give name of organization or vessel to which attached, date of enlistment or commission, position or rank, date and cause of discharge from the service, and any physical disability incurred in such service. 10. Such other information must be furnished as the Commission may reasonably require, touching the applicant's fitness for the public service.

The application must be accompanied (1) by a certificate of a practicing physician in good repute that he has examined the applicant and found him free from any physical defect or disease that would be likely to interfere with the proper discharge of his duties in the position in the civil service sought by such applicant; and (2) by the certificate of not less than three, nor more than five reputable citizens of this State, that they have been personally acquainted with the applicant for at

least one year, and believe him to be of good moral character, of temperate and industrious habits and in all respects fit for the service which he wishes to enter, and that they are willing that such certificate shall be published for public information. The applicant must also state in his application the grade or subdivision in this schedule he seeks to enter, and whether he limits such application to any particular department, office or institution.

RULE XI.

Defective applications will be suspended and applicants notified to amend the same, but no such notice will be given or opportunity granted a second time. Whenever the application shows that the applicant is not within the prescribed limits of age, or otherwise not qualified under the rules and regulations, or is manifestly unfit for the service, the application will be rejected.

RULE XII.

The date of the reception of all applications shall be indorsed thereon, and entered of record by the Commission, and if the applicants for admission to any grade or subdivision are in excess of a number that can be examined at a single examination, they will be notified to appear in their order on the respective records, provided that persons who have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States in the late war shall have precedence in such notification.

RULE XIII.

For the purpose of making examinations of applicants from time to time as may be required, the Commission will designate and select at Albany and other places a suitable number of persons to be members of boards of examiners, and will duly commission such persons as examiners; and the Commission may at any time substitute any other person in place of any one so selected. When persons selected as examiners are in the official service of the State, the head of the department or office in which such persons serve shall be consulted; and in the discharge of their duties as examiners the persons so selected from the official service will be responsible solely to the Commission, and will act under its regulations and direction.

RULE XIV.

Under the direction of the Commission the chief examiner will prepare a list of subjects of examination for the several grades and subdivisions in this schedule upon which each applicant must be examined. To such list of obligatory subjects there may be added certain other

subjects in which the applicant may be examined or not at his option. The general standing of each applicant shall depend solely upon his relative proficiency in the obligatory subjects. For the purpose of determining the general average standing, certain relative weights will be given to the obligatory subjects, which weights shall be adjusted to the relative importance of the subjects.

RULE XV.

No person whose standing on any obligatory subject is less than fifty, or whose ascertained average standing on all the obligatory subjects is less than seventy, will be entered upon the eligible list.

RULE XVI.

The names of the persons who have passed above the minimum, as set forth in the previous rule, will be entered upon a register in the order of their excellence, and opposite each name will be entered the standing of such person in each optional subject in which he may have been examined.

RULE XVII.

1. Whenever any officer having the power of appointment to or employment in any grade or subdivision in this schedule shall so request, the Commission shall certify to him the names of three eligible persons who are graded highest on the proper register, indicating such of them (if any) as have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States in the late war.

2. From the three persons whose names are so certified the officer shall make a selection to fill the vacant place, subject, however, to the provisions of Rule XLIV, giving preference in appointments to certain persons.

3. Whenever such request shall indicate that proficiency in any of the specified optional subjects is of prime importance in the position to be filled the Commission may certify the names of the three persons in the eligible list having the highest standing (not being below the minimum of seventy) on such optional subject. The Commission shall have power to order a new or special examination whenever there are no persons on the eligible list sufficiently qualified in such optional subjects, or whenever an appointing officer shall apprise the Commis. sion that any special qualifications are required for the position vacant. All positions filled by selections based on optional or special subjects will be specially noted in the published gazette of appointments, and in the official register of qualifications and schemes for examination as being special positions in respect of such qualifications.

4. In the selection from the persons whose names are certified as above by the Commission, the appointing or employing officer, upon his written requisition therefor, will be furnished with the application and examination papers of all the persons so certified, and in the exercise of his responsible power of selection he may summon personally before him the certified persons for such verbal inquiries as he may deem proper. All papers furnished upon requisition as above must be returned to the Commission with the notice of selection.

RULE XVIII.

Whenever physical qualifications are of prime importance in the proper discharge of duties in any position, applicants must pass a physical examination and be certified as qualified in such respect before record on the proper eligible list for selection for such position, or before certification by the Commission as qualified for such selection.

RULE XIX.

1. No person on any register shall be certified more than three times to the same officer, except upon request of such officer; nor shall any one remain eligible more than one year on any register.

2. Upon satisfactory evidence produced to the Commission that any person whose name is on any eligible list is, by reason of his character, habits or past reputation, unfit for admission to the civil service, the name of such person shall be formally stricken from such eligible list. 3. No person who has entered upon any examination for a position in schedule B or C shall be admitted, within one year from the date thereof to a new examination for the same grade or subdivision.

RULE XX.

Schedule C shall include the following sections:

Clerks in State prisons.

CLASS I.

CLASS II.

All persons of special qualifications (except those employed in the department of Public Works, the salt works, prisons, reformatories, asylums and other charitable and corrective institutions), including - Directors or curators of museums; geologists, botanists and entomologists and their respective assistants; librarians and their assistants; civil engineers and surveyors; chemists; sanitary experts; principals, professors and teachers in normal schools; inspector of quarantine hospitals; medical superintendent of emigrants.