APPENDIX A. Civil Service Statutes, Rules, Regulations, Etc. STATUTES. Laws of 1883, chap. 354.—An act to regulate and improve the Civil Service of the State of New York. Commission created; commissioners, appointment of, etc.SECTION 1. The Governor is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three persons, not more than two of whom shall be adherents of the same party, as Civil Service Commissioners, and said three commissioners shall constitute the New York Civil Service Commission. They shall hold no other official place under the State of New York. The Governor may remove any commissioner; and any vacancy in the position of commissioner shall be so filled by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, as to conform to said conditions for the first selection of commissioners. The three commissioners shall each receive a salary of $2,000 a year. And each of said commissioners shall be paid his necessary traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of his duty as a commissioner. Rogers v. Common Council of Buffalo et al., 2 N. Y. Supplement, 326; 123 N. Y., 173. Duties of commission; rules, what to provide for.-§ 2. It shall be the duty of said commission: First. To aid the Governor, as he may request, in preparing suitable rules for carrying this act into effect; and when said rules shall have been promulgated, it shall be the duty of all officers of the State of New York, in the departments and offices to which any such rules may relate, to aid, in all proper ways, in carrying said rules, and any modification thereof, into effect. People ex rel. Killeen v. Angle et al., 47 Hun, 183; 109 N. Y., 564. 3 1891. Second. And, among other things, said rulesshall provide and declare, as nearly as the conditions of good administration wlli warrant, as follows: 1. For open competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for the public service now classified or to be classified hereunder. Such examinations shall be practical in their character and so far as may be, shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of that service into which they seek to be appointed. 2. All the offices, places and employments so arranged or to be arranged in classes shall be filled by selections from among those graded highest as the results of such competitive examinations. 3. There shall be a period of probation before any absolute appointment or employment aforesaid. 4. Promotions from the lower grades to the higher shall be on the basis of merit and competition. 5. No person in the public service is for that reason under any obligation to contribute to any political fund, or to render any political service, and no person shall be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing to do so. 6. No person in said service has any right to use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body. 7. There shall be noncompetitive examinations when competition may not be found practical. 8. Notice shall be given in writing by the appointing power to said commission of the person selected for appointment or employment from among those who have been examined, of the place of residence of such persons, of the rejection of any such persons after probation, of transfers, resignations and removals, and of the date thereof, and a record of the same shall be kept by said commission. And any necessary exceptions from said eight fundamental provisions of the rules shall be set forth in connection with such rules, and the reasons therefor shall be stated in the annual reports of the commission. Third. Said commission shall, subject to the rules that may be made by the Governor, make regulations for, and have control of such examinations, and, through its members or the examiners, |