9. Is he free from rupture? 10. Is he free from varicose veins in the legs? 11. Is he free from all internal complaints? 12. Are there any circumstances connected with health or strength that can, in your opinion, tend to render the applicant unfit for prison service as a guard or keeper? If so, please state them. I, CERTIFICATE. a practicing physician, resident at do hereby , the above applicant, and having certify that I have examined in view all and several the above questions, I do further certify that I find him physically* for the prison service of the State of New York. SIR. Your application paper is herewith returned for correction, because it does not conform to the directions. The particulars referred to are indicated by pencil marks upon the margin. Please perfect your application as required, and return it to this office. Under the rules a second opportunity for correction cannot be given. Very respectfully yours, Secretary. CIVIL SERVICE 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. * Here add the words "fit" or "unfit," as the case may require, aud at the end any further remarks deemed desirable. Form 3.- Acknowledgment of Receipt of Application. STATE OF NEW YORK: Application CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, SIR. Your application for a position as a subdivision , 188 9 } in the at has , grade Your name , being in class been received and found to conform with the rules. has, therefore, been placed on the proper register of persons entitled to notice of examination. Such notice will be sent to you by mail ten days previous to the first examination held after this date for the grade above named. The registration of an applicant is entitled to examination, confers no other right, and your attention is called to the regulations below. Very respectfully yours, CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS 19 AND 20. Secretary. 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. 20. 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 applicants. SIR.I am directed by the Civil Service Commission to inform you that your application shows that you are not qualified for service in the position sought by you, viz.; in class , for the following reasons: division , grade sub Your application is, therefore, rejected under the provisions of Rule XI, and cannot be again accepted until you are in all respects qualified. Very respectfully yours. Secretary. CIVIL SERVICE 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. Form 5.-Notice to Appear for Examination. STATE OF NEW YORK: CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, 188 SIR. You are hereby notified that a competitive examination, under the rules and regulations of the Civil Service Commission, of applicants for admission to positions in class 188, beginning at subdivision day You must be pres city of o'clock A. M. ent at the hour named or it will not be practical to examine you. A failure to attend, unless satisfactorily shown to have been occasioned by sickness or other sufficient cause, will debar you from further notice of examination under your present application.. This notification must be presented to the examiners as your authority to appear. Very respectfully. CIVIL SERVICE STATE OF NEW YORK. To the Civil Service Commission: At an examination held at on the day of Schedule B. Class. 188 there appeared applicants, and the following is a true statement of the standing of such applicants as marked by us: Dated at '188. SIR. on the vision in day of Form 8.- Notice of failure to pass. STATE OF NEW YORK: subdi I have to inform you that at the examination held at of those eligible for appointment. Very respectfully yours. CIVIL SERVICE RULE XV. Secretary. 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. SIR. At the examination held at on the day of 188 you passed above the minimum of seventy, and your name has therefore been placed upon the proper register of applicants eligible for appointment. Whenever your name is reached in the order of its general standing, it will be certified with two others to such heads of departments, offices aud institutions as give notice of vacancies in the grade for which you are eligible. Should you be selected for appointment you will be so advised by the appointing officer. Under these conditions your name will remain on the register for one year from the date of examination, and if not selected during that period it will be dropped from the register. Your standing and extracts from the rules and regulations are given below. Very respectfully. Perfect standing, one hundred. Your general average standing was On optional subjects your standing was EXTRACTS FROM RULES AND REGULATIONS. Secretary. Rule 18. 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 19. 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. No person while remaining eligible on any register shall be admitted to a new examination for the same grade or subdivision Rule 40. Every original appointment or employment in the Civil Service shall be for the probationary term of three months, at the end of which time, if the conduct and capacity of the person appointed or employed have been found satisfactory, the probationer shall be absolutely appointed or employed, but otherwise his employment shall cease. * * * * * Regulation 19. The Commission cannot advise persons as to vacancies in the service, nor furnish any information as to duties, |