whether he has ever been in official service before, and, if so, when and where; date of beginning of service and term for which appointed; a specific description of the duties of the position; salary; name of person in whose place appointed, and such other statistical information as the Commission may deem proper for registration; the same to be duly certified by the appointing officer.

In these regulations the term "appointing officer" shall be construed to include any person, board or commission having the power to appoint to any position not excepted from these regulations in the civil service of the city of Brooklyn.

REGULATION XXXI.

Where a person upon an eligible list shall decline to accept an appointment, whether temporary or permanent, to a position permanent in its nature, and upon request of the Commission shall not explain such declination satisfactorily to the Commission, factory by the Commission, unless, the person declining appointment state in writing that he declines because he is at the time holding what he considers a better position; or if the salary offered the Commission may strike his name from the eligible list.

No reason for declining appointment shall be considered satis is not satisfactory, he must state, also in writing, the salary which he will accept; and duplicates of all such letters of declination must be referred to the Chairman of the Commission, who is hereby authorized to accept or refuse to accept the same.

The name of a person who declines an appointment for the reason that he is holding a position (which he prefers, shall not be certified again for appointment until he notifies the Commission, in writing, that he no longer holds the particular position which he referred to when he declined appointment.

The name of a person holding a position in any grade shall not be certified for appointment from an eligible list for that grade, or from a list for a lower grade in the same class, or for a position in any other class which carries the same or less salary, unless such person requests the Commission to so certify his name.

REGULATION XXXII.

No temporary appointment to a position within Schedule B shall be made of any one not eligible for permanent appointment, excepting that in case of exigency, upon the certificate of the Chairman of the Commission, that there are no candidates upon an eligible list for the position, and with the approval of the Mayor such temporary appointment may be made, and the appointee may hold office thereunder until an eligible list is prepared, and such eligible list shall thereupon be forthwith prepared and the position shall then be filled from such eligible list. In the event of the appointment of special patrolmen pursuant to the provisions of the City Charter, such special patrolmen may be appointed without examination, and without reference to the qualifications laid down in these regulations.

The name of a person on an eligible list who has received a temporary appointment shall, notwithstanding such appointment, be deemed to still remain upon the eligible list for the purpose of his certification for a permanent appointment, in like manner as if he did not hold such temporary appointment. No temporary appointment shall continue more than two months, except as herein before provided, and except in cases where the Civil Service Commission shall certify a longer continuance of such temporary appointment to be necessary for the public service.

PROBATION.

REGULATION XXXIII.

All appointments to permanent positions within Schedule B, except upon the uniformed police force, upon the uniformed fire force, and upon the park police force, shall be upon a probationary term of two months at the end of which time the appointee, unless he shall, before the end of three days thereafter, be notified of his rejection by the head of the department, shall be deemed to have received a permanent appointment. Any one failing at the end of two months so to receive permanent appointment for good cause, shall be ineligible for one year for a new examination for the same position under these regulations. It shall be the duty of the ap

pointing officer so refusing such permanent appointment at the end of a probationary term, to certify to the Commission the cause of his refusal, in order that the Commission may decide whether the person to whom he has refused such permanent appointment is ineligible for one year.

REGULATION XXXIV.

Before an appointment upon the uniformed fire force (Schedule B, Class 9) is definitely made, the fire commissioner may require that the person whom he contemplates appointing, of those certified to him from the eligible list, shall serve without pay for a period not exceeding ten days, in the repair shop of the fire department, or with some fire company, and, if at the end of such period, the 'fire commissioner, from the report of the officer in charge of the repair shop, or company, or from other trustworthy information, becomes satisfied that such person is incompetent for the duties of the position to be filled, the fire commissioner may, in such case, refuse to such person an appointment as provided in regulation XXXIII. Without the consent of the fire commissioner, such person shall not again be certified to him for appointment.

PROMOTION.

REGULATION XXXV.

No promotion from one grade to a higher grade of the same class in Schedule B shall be made until after the person promoted has, for at least one year, occupied the position in the lower grade. No promotion or transfer shall be made from one class to another in Schedule B, otherwise than upon competitive examination.

REGULATION XXXVI.

If the rate of compensation for a position within any grade of Schedule B be increased beyond the rate or limit of rate of compensation for that grade, as specified in Appendix D, the position, by virtue of such increase shall be deemed placed in the grade, in the same class of Schedule B, which contains positions entitled to the compensation as so increased; and the person holding the position

in the former grade shall not be transferred with or to the position when so placed in the higher grade, unless he be promoted in pursuance of these regulations. But nothing in these regulations contained, in cases where, in the judgment of any appointing officer, by reason of increase in efficiency or merit, or by reason of length of service the compensation of any person holding such a position in any grade of Schedule B ought to be increased, shall prevent such appointing officer from making such increase within the limit of the maximum so specified for such grade.

Nor shall anything in these regulations be deemed to prevent an increase in salary by virtue of length of service, where such increase is provided by law.

REGULATION XXXVII.

No person shall be appointed or promoted to be a foreman in the uniformed fire force (Schedule B, Class 9, Grade C) who shall not have been a member of such uniformed force for at least two years, immediately preceding such appointment. No person shall be appointed or promoted to be a district engineer in the fire force (Schedule B, Class 9, Grade D) who shall not have been a member of the uniformed force for at least four years immediately preceding such appointment, and in the last two years of which he shall have served in the grade next below that of district engineer.

REGULATION XXXVIII.

Promotion shall not take place from one grade to a higher grade in the following classes of Schedule B: Class S, uniformed police force; Class 9, uniformed fire force; Class 44, park police; except upon competitive examination, to determine merit and fitness as provided in Regulations XV and XVI.

And the competition shall be limited to the persons in the grade next below the grade to which promotion is to be made; provided, however, that promotion to Class 8, first, Grade C (police sergeants), may be made from Grade B (roundsmen), or from detective sergeants of three years' continuous service as

such in the department, and in competition for the rank of captain (Class 8, first, Grade D), competition shall be limited to police sergeants, to detective sergeants and to telegraph operators who have the rank and pay of police sergeants.

Sergeants who may have been in command of precincts or subprecincts for not less than three months during the year next preceding the date on which the vacancy to be filled was created, and who have demonstrated their ability to command, may, in the discretion of the Commissioner, be promoted without competitive examination,

In determining such merit, upon such competitive examination for promotion, especial weight shall be given by the Commission, or examiners so far as practicable, to the merit of the work done by the applicant in the position from which he seeks promotion, and in weighing such merit, length of service may be considered. Such merit shall be determined from the records and papers of the office or position in which he has been employed, so far as they show his diligence, punctuality, steadiness and other merit; and from his work in such office or position, so far as it remains or can be inspected; and from such other evidence of such merit. as the Commission or examiners may deem it proper to consider.

TRANSFER.

REGULATION XXXIX.

Transfers of persons included in the same grade of any class in Schedule B may be made from one office or department to another, by the mutual consent of the heads of such offices or departments; providing that the annual rate of compensation in the place to which the person is transferred shall not exceed the annual rate of compensation applicable to that grade. Every such transfer must be reported to the Commission for record within five days from the date thereof. No transfer will be permitted from a position enumerated in any class within Schedule B to a position enumerated in any other class within Schedule B, or from Schedule A or Schedule D, to any position in Schedule B, except by virtue of the application, examination and other pro