RULE VI.—RE-EXAMINATION.

1. No person who has failed in any examination for merit shall be admitted within one year from the date thereof to a new examination for the same position.

RULE VII.-FAILURE TO ACCEPT APPOINTMENT.

1. If an applicant fails to accept an appointment, he shall be deemed to have waived his right to appointment, and his name shall be stricken from the list of eligibles for appointment.

RULE VIII.-TERM OF PROBATION.

1. Every original appointment or employment shall be for a probationary term of three months, and the appointing person or body in notifying a person selected for appointment shall specify the same as for a probationary term only; and at the end of such term, if the conduct, capacity and fitness of the proba tioner are satisfactory to the appointing officer or body, his retention in the service shall be equivalent to his absolute appointment; but if his conduct, capacity or fitness be not satisfactory, he may be discharged at any time.

RULE IX.-EFFECT OF DISMISSAL FROM SERVICE.

1. No one dismissed from the service for misconduct shall be admitted to examination for merit in any capacity within two years from the date of such dismissal.

RULE X.-VETERANS.

1. Veterans are entitled to the preference given by the Constitution and statutes of the State.

RULE XI.-APPLICATION OF RULES.

1. These rules and regulations apply only to the classified service. The power to remove as it exists by law on the part of any officer or board, is not impaired by anything contained in these regulations. All persons holding positions in the civil service at this date, in the classified service, shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits possessed by persons appointed in such service upon examination under the provisions of these rules.

ALBANY, N. Y., November 11, 1897.

The foregoing regulations for the city of Elmira having been duly examined, are hereby approved by the New York Civil Ser

vice Commission.

[L. S.]

Attest:

CLARENCE B. ANGLE,

Secretary.

Regulations for the Civil Service of the City of Poughkeepsie.

DEFINITION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE AND ITS

DIVISIONS.

REGULATION I.

(1) These regulations shall apply to all positions in the public service of the city of Poughkeepsie, with the following excep tions, required by the statutes, namely: All elective officers and the subordinates of any such officer, for whose errors or violations of duty said officer is financially responsible, and the heads of every department of the city government, and persons employed in, or who seek to enter, the public service under the educational department of the city, and all subordinate officers who, by virtue of their office, have personal custody of public moneys or public securities, for the safe keeping of which the head of the office is under official bonds.

(2) The civil service of the city of Poughkeepsie shall be divided into the unclassified service and the classified service. (3) The unclassified service shall comprise all elective positions, all officers appointed by the mayor and the chief of police.

(4) The classified service shall comprise all clerks, copyists, bookkeepers and others rendering clerical services and not included in the unclassified service, all police officers, superintendent of the poor, superintendent of water works and the clerks, engineers, firemen and other persons appointed by the board of public works, except the superintendent of streets, and all other persons employed in the public service of said city, or appointed by any board or officer, and not included in Regulation I, and in the unclassified service.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

REGULATION II.

(1) The violation of any of the provisions of the civil service acts, or of these rules, by any person in the civil service of the

city of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., shall be considered a good cause for the dismissal of such person from the service.

(2) No person in the civil service of the city of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., shall use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body, or shall dismiss or cause to be dismissed, or make any attempt to procure the dismissal of, or in any manner change the official rank or compensation of, any person in such service because of his political or religious opinion or affiliations.

(3) No question in any examination, or form of application or other proceedings by or under the Commission, or its examiners, shall be so framed as to elicit information concerning, nor any other attempt be made to ascertain, the political or religious. opinions or affiliations of any applicant, competitor or eligible, and all disclosures thereof shall be discountenanced by the Commission and its examiners. And no discrimination shall be exercised, threatened or promised against or in favor of any applicant, competitor or eligible because of his political or religious opinions or affiliations.

(4) No recommendation of an applicant, competitor or eligible involving any disclosure of his political opinions or affiliations shall be received, filed and considered by the Commission, by an examining board, or by any nominating or appointing officer.

(5) No person in the civil service of the city of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., shall be obliged to contribute to any political fund or to render any political service; nor shall any such person, directly or indirectly, use his authority or official influence to compel or induce any other person in such service to pay or promise to pay any political assessment.

(6) In making removals or reductions, or in imposing penalties for delinquency or misconduct, penalties like in character shall be imposed for like offenses, and action thereon shall be taken irrespective of the political or religious opinions or affiliations of the offenders.

(7) A person holding a position on the date said position' is classified under the rules, whose appointment was made in con

formity with the law and who had been rendering the proper duties of such position, shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits possessed by persons of the same class appointed upon examination under the provisions of said rules.

(8) The Commission shall have authority to prescribe such regulations in pursuance of and for the execution of the provisions of these rules and of the civil service act, as may not be inconsistent therewith, and may prescribe blank forms for all applications, certificates, reports, records and returns required under these rules and the regulations made in pursuance thereof.

APPOINTMENTS TO AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE
CLASSIFIED SERVICE.

REGULATION III.

(1) In pursuance of the provisions of article V, section 9 of the Constitution and of the civil service acts, there shall be provided, to ascertain merit for admission to the classified service, examinations to be made under the general direction of the Commission.

(2) No person shall be appointed to, or employed in, any position in the classified service until he shall have passed the examinations for merit and fitness as provided therefor, or unless the position to which he is appointed is especially exempt from examination under the provisions of these rules.

APPOINTMENT TO POSITIONS.

REGULATION IV.

(1) Appointments may be made to unclassified positions without examination. Upon formal notice to the Commission of such appointments by the head of an office, certification of the same will be made to the Comptroller or other fiscal officer otherwise authorized to pay a salary to the incumbent of the position to which such appointment is made.

(2) Appointments shall be made to, or employment shall be given in, all classified positions that are not filled by promotion, reinstatement, transfer or reduction under these rules, by selec