motion, transfer or reinstatement, the Commission will, if such promotion, transfer or reinstatement be in accordance with law and the provisions of these rules, issue its certificate of that fact to such officer.

2. All promotions, transfers and reinstatements herein authorized shall be made only after the issuance of such certificate, except those which may be specifically exempted from such condition by regulation of the Commission.

Rule XVIII. Definition of the Noncompetitive Class.

The noncompetitive class shall include such positions as are not in the exempt class and which it is impracticable to include in the competitive class.

It shall comprise the following positions and such positions as may hereafter be added; provided, that from time. to time, the Commission shall transfer positions from this class to the competitive class whenever it may be found practicable to hold competitive examinations to fill them:

POSITIONS IN THE NONCOMPETITIVE CLASS

In the office of the Comptroller:

The watchman.

In the office of the Treasurer:

The watchman.

In the Insurance Department:
The watchman.

In the Department of Public Buildings:

Messenger and weigher, upholsterer, tin and coppersmith, gardener, chief carpenter, carpenters, painters, shade and carpetman, plumber and gasfitter, plumber's

helper, machinist, assistant machinist, steamfitter, locksmith, steamfitter's helper, boilerscaler, stonecutter and tilesetter, elevatormen.

In the Department of Public Works:

The harbor masters.

In the State Hospitals:

Watchmen, policemen, barbers, supervisors, nurses, attendants, ward-helpers, housekeepers, chefs, head cooks, bakers, meatcutters, butchers,, laundry overseers, launderers, head laundresses, linemen, plumbers, steamfitters, carpenters, painters, blacksmiths, foremen, tailors, dressmakers, shoemakers, printers, bookbinders, head farmers, dairymen, gardeners, florists, railway conductors, pages.

In the office of the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission:

The protectors and foresters.
The assistant oyster protector.

In the State Prisons:

The assistant matrons.

In the Prison for Women at Auburn:

The attendants.

In the State Reformatory at Elmira:
Hospital stewards.

Office boys.

In the State Industrial School at Rochester:

Nurses, housekeepers, caretakers, attendants, superintendent of hospital, superintendent of kitchen, milk sterilizer, dentist, officers.

In the House of Refuge for Women at Hudson:

Watchmen, carpenters.

In the Thomas Asylum at Iroquois:
Attendants, head farmer.

In the School for the Blind at Batavia:

Housekeepers, ushers, bakers, florists, carpenters, yard

men, janitors.

In the Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Bath:

Blacksmiths, linemen, steamfitters, carpenters, nurses, superintendent of mess-hall and kitchens.

In the Custodial Asylum at Newark:

Attendants, supervisors, baker, nurses, head cook, gardener, carpenters.

In the Custodial Asylum at Rome:

Housekeeper, head farmer, gardener, baker, painters, carpenters, blacksmith, attendants, laundryman, supervisors, head cook.

In the House of Refuge for Women at Albion:

Nurses, head laundress, housekeepers, gardener, steamfitter, carpenter, day patrol.

In the Craig Colony at Sonyea:

Laundrymen, nurses, supervisors, ward-helpers, attendants, carpenters, plumbers, dairyman, painters, bakers, blacksmiths, meatcutter, watchmen, poultryman, head cook, head farmer, gardener and florist.

In the Institution for Feeble-Minded Children at Syracuse: Housekeeper, supervisors, office girl, head cook, head laundress, night watch, usher, attendants, carpenters,

baker, gardener, painters, watchmen, tailoresses, dressmakers, cloakmakers, hosemakers, shoemaker.

Rule XIX. Employment in the Noncompetitive Class.

1. The positions in the noncompetitive class must be filled by such persons as upon proper noncompetitive examinations shall be certified as qualified to discharge the duties of such positions by an examiner or examiners selected or appointed for that purpose by the Commission. The head of any office, department or institution in which there may be a vacancy or vacancies in any position or positions in this class, may name for examination a person for each vacancy. The Commission may provide by special regulation that in any institution where a number of persons are employed in the same grade, the employing officer may name for examination more than one person, in order that there may be a list of qualified persons from which to make an immediate selection in case of vacancy. Such nomination may be made to the Commission, or to an examiner or board of examiners, as the Commission. may prescribe by regulations.

2. The Commission shall select, appoint and commission examiners or boards of examiners to test the qualifications of persons named for employment in positions in the noncompetitive class, and they shall be subject to the provisions of the fourth section of rule X.

3. Examinations for positions in the noncompetitive class shall be such as shall determine the following qualifications:

First. That the person examined is within the limits of age prescribed for the position or employment to which he has been named;

Second. That he is properly certified as free from any physical defect or disease which would be likely to interfere with the proper discharge of his duties;

Third. That his character is such as to qualify him for such position or employment; and

Fourth. That he posseses the requisite knowledge and ability to enter on the discharge of his duties in the service.

To preserve a uniform standard in such qualifications for like positions and employments in the several institutions and offices of the State service, the Commission, after consultation with the principal officers concerned, may by regulations prescribe uniform limitations and tests for the government of the examiners.

Rule XX. Reports of Appointing Officers.

For the purpose of certification to the Comptroller, or other fiscal officer, for the payment of salaries and to enable the Commission to keep an official roster of the classified service as required by law, each appointing and employing officer, from time to time after the date of the promulgation of these rules and upon the date of the official action in or knowledge of each case, shall report to the Commission as follows:

(a) Every appointment or employment whether probationary, temporary, or otherwise, in the classified service, with the date of commencement of service and the title and compensation of the position.

This includes every employment or designation of any person to render any service, whether permanent, temporary or special, to the State of New York or any of its civil divisions to which these rules shall be extended, in any capacity whatever, compensation for which is to be