2 STATEMENT OF APPOINTMENTS, REINSTATEMENTS, RESIGNA- 4 AMENDMENTS TO STATE CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS 5 EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, SHOWING SPECIAL ACTIONS AND RULINGS OF THE COMMISSION 1 REVISED CIVIL SERVICE RULES FOR THE CITIES OF MIDDLETOWN, APPENDIX A 1 REPORTS OF THE STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS OF THEIR INQUIRY AS TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW AND RULES IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 2 REMOVAL OF MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF TROY AND APPOINTMENT OF THEIR SUCCESSORS 3 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER BROWN TO THE COMMISSION ON THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 10 OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW RELATIVE TO REMOVAL AND AP- REPORTS AS TO ADMINISTRATION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW AND RULES IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK Report of Commissioners Milliken and Brown To the Governor of the State of New York: A regulation of the State Civil Service Commission provides that that body shall make an occasional official visitation of each city in the state for the purpose of inquiring into the method of the administration of the Civil Service Law in such city and of ascer taining whether the municipal commissioners and other city offi cials faithfully discharge their duties in respect to compliance with said law. In accordance with that regulation and for the purpose of investigating as to certain abuses alleged by the Civil Service Reform Association and by others to exist in the administration of the Civil Service Law in the city of New York, this Commission visited that city on the 18th of May, and instituted such an inquiry. It first directed its attention to the matters specifically referred to in the presentment of the Reform Association under date of April 6, 1905. An open session for the examination of witnesses in regard to these matters was continued through the 18th and 19th of May and was then adjourned to and concluded on the 22d of June. In the interim, the secretary and chief examiner of the State Commission, pursuant to instruc tions, and in the exercise of a privilege conferred by section 10 of the Civil Service Law, made an examination of the records of the Municipal Commission along the lines noted, but examined no witnesses. The presentment of the Civil Service Reform Association called the attention of the State Commission to certain specific instances of alleged abuses in the administration of the Civil Service Law under the Municipal Commission and its secretary, and to matters in which it was charged that heads of departments are responsible with the Commission for violation or evasion of the law and rules. In examination of witnesses and records, the State Commission has covered the matters set forth in the presentment, except that which called attention to the increased expenses of the Municipal Commission, and that which referred to the alleged exploitation of positions in the exempt class in the city service to subserve political purposes. The State Commission has not been able, in the time at its disposal, to make the extended compilation of data essential to an intelligent comparison of the cost to the city of the civil service administration under the present and former Commissions. The cost rose from $108,457.07, under the Ogden Commission, in 1903, to $114,781.81 under the McCooey and Coler Commissions in 1904. The appropriation for the present year, under the Baker Commission, is $115,000.00, the same as last year, though $10,000.00 has been added to the salaries of the commissioners. Whether this has resulted in any loss in efficiency in the work of examination and administration, or whether the earlier increase in appropriations was out of proportion to the growth of the city, so that the expenses could be cut in other directions without harm to the service, the State Commission does not, at present, feel able to judge. Neither has the State Commission yet had opportunity to study the conduct of the examinations, their practicality and the justice and impartiality of the ratings. As to the alleged abuse in the matter of appointments to positions in the exempt class, that is an offense to be established by inference rather than by oral or documentary evidence. At |