REPORT To the Governor: ALBANY, N. Y., December 31, 1910. The State Civil Service Commission hereby submits its Twentyeighth Annual Report. The completion of 1910 rounds out a period of six years' work without change in the personnel of the Commission. During this time many new agencies of the State government have been created, involving considerable increases in the number of public employees, and through the extension of the rules over additional civil divisions and the natural growth of the service with the increase in population the roster has steadily grown, with a result that while in 1905 the Commission exercised supervision over, five counties in addition to the State service, covering an aggregate of 11,000 positions, it now supervises the service in seventeen counties and seven villages, in addition to the State service, and has 16,000 positions within its purview, an increase of over 45 per cent. in the six years. During this period the number of positions in the competitive class has increased in a yet larger proportion, growing from 4,080 in 1905 to 7,722 the past year. Its work of examination shows a corresponding increase, the number of candidates entering its examinations in 1905 being only 6,923 as compared with 13,658 in the year now closing. Legislation. The usual bills proposing to amend the Civil Service Law for the benefit of individuals or classes were introduced at the recent session of the Legislature. Two of these were passed. The object of one was to put veterans who served as soldiers in the regular army during the Spanish War on the same footing as volunteers as to tenure of office, making all veterans of that war unremov [9] |