ing that such certificate should be published for public information, and will upon request, give such further information concerning the applicant as he may possess.

Fourth-The foregoing application shall be verified by the oath of the applicant.

The requirements as to citizenship and certificates of character, in case of persons applying for positions under Schedule E, and the requirements as to citizenship in case of persons applying for positions under Schedule D, may be modified or dispensed with in the discretion of the commission. All applications for examination shall be filed in the office of the Secretary a reasonable length of time before the date of examination, and all applications and other blanks shall be kept at his office, and shall be procurable there only.

Registers of all applicants shall be kept by the Secretary of the Municipal Commission. When the applicants on a register are in excess of such number as can be conveniently examined on the same day, the applicants shall be notified to appear in their order on the register. Whenever the demands of the service may require, the Secretary shall notify the applicants of record, or such number as can conveniently be examined, to appear for examination, giving place, date and hour for such examination.

Rule 9.

Applicants for the following positions must, before being admitted to examination, or before being appointed, present satisfactory evidence as to the following facts:

First-If the position to be filled be that of Physician, Surgeon, Medical Officer, Inspector of Vaccination or Medical Sanitary Inspector-that the applicant is duly authorized by the laws of the State of New York to practice medicine and surgery.

Second-If the position to be filled be that of Chemist or Analyzer, that the applicant has received the degree of Bachelor of Sciences, or its equivalent, from some institution duly authorized by law to confer such degree. If the position to be filled be that of Apothecary or Druggist, that the applicant is duly registered according to law, and that any other statutory requirements have been complied with.

Third-If the position to be filled is that of assistant to the Corporation Counsel, that the applicant or proposed appointee is a regularly admitted member of the bar of the State of New York.

In positions where the duties are professional, technical or expert, the candidates will be required to show what preliminary training or technical education they have undergone to qualify them for such situation, before they can be admitted to examination.

Rule 10.

Defective applications shall be suspended and applicants notified to amend the same. Whenever it appears by the application or other satisfactory evidence that the applicant is not within the prescribed limits of age or otherwise not qualified under the rules, the application shall be rejected.

Rule 11.

Every false statement knowingly made by any person in his application for examination, and every connivance by him at any false statement made in any certificate which may accompany his application, shall be regarded as good cause for the removal or discharge of such person.

Rule 12.

Applicants shall be admitted to examination upon the production of the official notification to appear for that purpose. Each applicant shall receive a number, which shall be indorsed upon his notification when produced, and the notification so indorsed shall be sealed in an envelope. Each applicant shall 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.

All papers upon which examinations are to be written shall be furnished to the applicants by the Examining Board and shall bear some suitable official indorsement, stamp or mark for the purpose of identifying the same.

Rule 13.

The Municipal Commission may refuse to examine an applicant, or, after examination, to certify an eligible who is found to lack any of the established preliminary requirements for the examination or position for which he applies; or who is physically so disabled as to be rendered unfit for the performance of the duties. of the position to which he seeks appointment; or who is addicted to the habitual use of intoxicating beverages to excess; or who has

been guilty of a crime or of infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct; or who has been dismissed from the public service for delinquency or misconduct, or who has intentionally made a false statement of any material fact, or practiced or attempted to practice any deception or fraud in his application, in his examination, or in securing his engibility or appointment, or whose character upon investigation and report shall be found not to be satisfactory to the Examining Board.

No person who has entered any examination for a position in the classified service and who has failed therein shall be admitted within nine months from the date thereof to a new examination for the same or a similar position.

Rule 14.

The actual conduct of every examination shall be under the responsible direction of the Board of Examiners, or of its designated members, free from the interference or participation or influences. of the appointing officer, or of any person other than the Municipal Commissioners, examiners or experts directly employed by the Municipal Commission.

The Municipal Commission shall have power to authorize or to order the employment of an expert to assist any Board of Examiners, whether in a special case or in connection with the examinations for any special grade, position or office.

Each examiner shall exercise all due diligence to secure fairness and prevent all collusion and fraud in the examination. All examinations shall relate to such matters as will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of that service to which they seek to be appointed. Excepting as these rules otherwise provide, the Board of Examiners may, in the examinations, give such relative importance to the different subjects or matters of examinations as to them may seem fit.

Rule 15.

All examinations shall be in writing, except such as refer to expertness or physical qualities, and except as herein otherwise provided.

Whenever an oral examination shall be prescribed as part of any scheme of examination, a stenographic record of such oral

questions and answers shall be made, and the transcript thercof shall be preserved with the examination papers of the candidate.

Rule 16.

The sheets of questions shall be numbered and shall 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, shall be allowed to be answered at another session. Each candidate must complete his examination on the obligatory subects before taking up any of the optional subjects.

Rule 17.

The time allowed for completing the examination shall be announced before the first paper is given out.

For the obligatory subjects the examination shall be confined to a single day.

At or before the commencement of every examination, the weight to be given every subject included in the examination, and the minimum, if any, allowable upon each subject, shall be announced to the applicants. The appointing officer shall state to the Municipal Commission, upon its request, the general qualifications or attainments, physical or mental, or both, which he deems necessary or proper in the position for which an eligible list is to be

formed.

Rule 18.

No question in any examination or proceeding by or under these rules shall relate to political or religious opinions or affiliations, and no appointment or selection to or removal from an of fice or employment within the scope of these rules shall be in any manner affected or influenced by such opinions or affiliations.

Rule 19.

MARKING.

The examination papers shall be reviewed by each examiner separately, except where otherwise directed by the Municipal Commission, and in any case of disagreement, the average of the mark

ings made on any question or paper by all shall be the final marking on such question or paper, subject to the rule as to revision (Rule 27).

Rule 20.

In all examinations each subject shall be marked upon a scale of 100, which number represents the maximum possible attainment.

Rule 21.

Every paper in any examination not formally certified by the examiners shall be signed with his initials in ink by each examiner who has reviewed and marked it.

Rule 22.

Handwriting shall be judged, first, by its legibility (as to the ease with which it can be read); second, from its appearance as to correctness of form and finish and regularity of letters; and, third, by general evidence of care in execution. The markings shall be based on these three general characteristics, but the standard of perfection in each examination shall be fixed by the position to be filled. It shall be highest for clerks and lower for other positions. In case no applicant seems to be entitled to a grade of 100 in the scale adopted, he shall not be so graded; the marking shall be only according to merit. In writing from dictation or copying from manuscript, the omission, repetition or substitution of words, the erasures, blots or other evidences of carelessness, shall, proportionately to their number, reduce the marking below 100. Words may be specially dictated for spelling, and the work shall be marked with reference to the ratio the misspelled words bear to the whole number.

Rule 23.

No applicant for the position of senior clerk, third grade, who receives in the ascertained average less than 80 per cent., or for any other position less than 70 per cent., shall be placed upon the eligible list.

No candidate for positions requiring technical or professional knowledge receiving less than 75 per cent. on the technical or special subjects shall be placed upon the eligible list.

No applicant for the position of fireman or policeman who receives on the mental examination an average of less than 70 per