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tails of answers of candidates. No examiner or other person serving under the commission shall attempt to influence the marking or grading of any candidate, or the selection, nomination, appointment or employment of any person in the civil service.

Regulation IV - Application

1 All applications for admission to examination shall be made upon the blank forms prescribed and furnished by the commission, and no one will be admitted who has not made such application in satisfactory form.

2 In every application for examination for original appointment in the competitive class, the applicant must state on oath and in his own handwriting: (1) the position or kind of examination desired; (2) his full name, residence and post-office address; (3) his term of residence in this state; (4) his citizenship, and if naturalized, the date and place of his naturalization; (5) the date and place of his birth; (6) his previous employment in the civil service, if any; (7) his business or employment for the last preceding five years; (8) his education; (9) if in the army or navy of the United States in the late civil war and honorably discharged therefrom, the name of organization or vessel to which attached, date of enlistment or commission, position or rank, and date and cause of discharge from service; (10) such other infor mation as the commission may require touching his eligibility and fitness for the public service.

3 The application must be accompanied (1) by a certificate of a practicing physician of good repute that he has examined the applicant and found him free from any physical defect or disease that would interfere with the proper discharge of his duties in the position applied for; (2) by the certificate of not less than three nor more than five reputable citizens that they have been personally acquainted with the applicant for at least one year and believe him to be of good moral character, of temperate and industrious habits and in all respects fit for the service he wishes to enter, and that they are willing that such certificate shall be published for public information, and (3) if the applicant is an honorably discharged soldier or sailor of the late civil war, by

the adjutant-general's certificate of his honorable discharge or other satisfactory evidence of the same.

4 In addition to the information above mentioned applicants for positions requiring special qualifications shall furnish the evidences, certificates and licenses required under the provisions of section 5 of rule IX.

5 The limits of age at the time of application for the following named positions are as follows: Stenographer, telegrapher, stenographer and telegrapher, messenger, chainman, minimum, 18 years; regents' clerk, minimum, 16 years; page, minimum, 14 years, and maximum, 18 years; junior clerks, minimum, 16 years, and maximum, 21 years. For all other positions the minimum age limit is 21 years, with no maximum limit. (As amended September 27, 1899; January 24, 1900.)

6 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.

7 Applications must be filed at least five days before the date of examination to entitle the applicant to enter the same.

8 The date of the reception of all applications shall be indorsed thereon, and entered of record by the commission, and if the applicants for any position are in excess of a number that can be examined at a single examination, they will be notified to appear in their order on the respective records, provided that veterans shall have precedence in such notification.

9 Applications and accompanying certificates, not returned for correction, will remain on file in the office of the commission, and under no circumstances will be returned to the applicant.

10 All applications for admission to examinations must be directed to the "State Civil Service Commission, Albany, N. Y." 11 Candidates for examination for positions in the non-competitive class shall file applications on blank forms prescribed by the commission containing such information as the commission shall deem necessary in regard to their eligibility and fitness for the positions applied for. Such applications may be presented at the time of examination and shall be forwarded to the commission by the examiners together with the examination papers.

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1 Competitive examinations will be held from time to time for such positions as shall be specially requested by appointing officers and for those for which, in the opinion of the commission, the number of applicants or lack of eligibles renders an examination desirable. The preliminary requirements, subjects of exami nations and relative weights for positions in the competitive class shall be published from time to time. The place and date of an examination for any position, when determined, and any other material information in regard thereto, will be posted in the office of the commission in the capitol at Albany at least ten days before the date of such examination.

All examinations of a public and general interest shall be advertised by the chief examiner, so far as practicable, in every county of the state at least ten days before the date of the examination by one insertion of a suitable notice in one or more prominent newspapers of the county; examinations of a professional and technical nature shall be advertised, so far as practicable, in suitable periodicals published in this state.

2 Notice of examination will be mailed ten days previous to the date thereof to each applicant then entitled to enter the same. If an applicant fails to receive due notice of an examination, or gives satisfactory reasons for failure to attend an examination, he shall be notified to attend the next examination for the same subdivision and group, provided such examination occurs within one year from the date of filing the original application.

3 Applicants must present themselves promptly at the hour and place specified in their official notification signed by the chief examiner of the commission, and no one will be admitted to an examination except upon the production of such notification.

4 In order to properly identify competitors, each person presenting himself for examination shall fill out a "declaration sheet" on which he shall state the essential facts contained in his application paper. Each declaration sheet shall bear a dif ferent number which shall be used to designate the examination papers of the competitor. The name of the competitor shall not

appear on his examination papers except on the declaration sheet. (Added November 23, 1899.)

5 For the further identification of appointees and for the prevention of impersonation in examinations, every person appointed after a competitive examination shall be required to fill out an identification sheet to be called "declaration of appointee." Said declaration shall require a reiteration of the essential facts of the application and declaration sheet and the statement of such other facts as the chief examiner shall require, and shall be filled out by the appointee in the presence of the appointing officer or his representative who shall attach his certificate of such fact. Such declaration shall be forwarded with the notice of appointment to the state civil service commission and shall be filed with the examination papers of the appointee. (Added November 23, 1899.)

6 The relative weights given to the several subjects or qualifications in an examination shall be fixed before the date thereof by the chief examiner under the direction of the commission.

7 Non-competitive examinations for provisional appointments under the provisions of rule VIII shall be in their scope and character the same as competitive examinations to fill vacancies in the same positions.

8 Whenever an oral examination shall be prescribed as part of any scheme of examinations, a stenographic record of the oral questions and answers shall be made and the transcript thereof shall be preserved with the examination papers or report.

Regulation VI — Marking and grading of examination papers 1 So soon as practicable after an examination the papers of the competitors shall be marked and the general average of each ascertained. Such marking and ascertainment shall be under the direction of the chief examiner, and, so far as practicable, shall be made at the office of the commission.

2 The marking of each competitor's papers shall be made on the scale of 100, which maximum shall represent the highest attainable accuracy, and 0 shall represent entire ignorance. The average of the marking of the several answers upon any one subject shall be the standing on that subject.

No person shall have his name entered upon an eligible list who fails to attain an average percentage of 75, or over, on all the obligatory subjects in the examination, and a percentage of 60 or over on every such obligatory subject.

3 The absolute or general average standing of each competitor will then be made up in form substantially as follows, in accordance with the respective weights accorded to the subjects:

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It will be observed that the standing on each subject is multiplied by the weight given that subject and the product placed in the third column, and the sum of these products, divided by the sum of the weights, gives the general average standing.

4 Within five days after the filing of the report of any com petitive examination, each competitor will be advised by mail by the secretary of the commission as to the result of his examination and his relative position on the eligible list. Prior to that time no inquiries to the commission, or its officers, will be answered, nor will any letters, explanatory of errors presumed to have been made in an examination, receive any attention.

5 A competitor receiving such notice may, in person or by duly authorized agent, in the presence of any officer of the commission, inspect his examination papers, and if, in his opinion, injustice has been done him, he may, within fifteen

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