army or navy of the United States, in the late war, shall be preferred for appointments to positions in the civil service over other persons of equal standing as ascertained under these rules, and the person thus preferred shall not be disqualified from holding any position in the 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.

RULE XLV.

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 im. paired by any thing contained in these rules.

RULE XLVI.

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 XLVII.

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 schedules 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 safe-keep

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ing 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 esti-mate and mark the standing of the persons competing, or in a noncompetitive 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 offer authorized to employ persons in the positions in that schedule, and shall only certify such as satisfy the qualifications for such positions a 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 purposes 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 accommodation 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 of 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 forins for such applications and for the re

quisite certificates will be furnished upon request, which should specify the position in the service sought by the applicant. All 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.

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.

29. 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.

I. Competitive.

21. Applicants will be admitted to examination upon the production of the official notification to appear for that purpose. Each applicant will receive a number, which will be indorsed upon his notification when produced, and the notifications so indorsed shall be sealed in an envelope; each applicant will sign his examination papers with his number, omitting his name, and the envelope shall not be opened until all the examination papers have been received and the markings and gradings made.

22. All examinations shall be in writing, except such as refer to physical qualities or expertness.

23. The sheets of questions will be numbered and will be given out in the order of their numbers, each after the first being given only when the competitor has returned to the examiners the last sheet given to him. In general, no examination shall extend beyond five hours without intermission; and no questions given out at any session, to any candidate, can be allowed to be answered at another session. Each applicant must complete his examination on the obligatory subjects, before taking up any of the optional subjects.

24. Each examiner will exercise all due diligence to secure fairness and prevent all collusion and fraud in the examinations.

25. The time allowed for completing the examination will be announced before the first paper is given out. For the obligatory subjects the examination should be confined to a single day, but the examiners may extend such time in special cases of emergency.