Ninth.- Park department: Head gardener, clerk. Eleventh. Street department: Superintendent of streets, clerks. Twelfth. Water department: Secretary, clerks, chief engineer, assistant engineers, firemen, coal passers, foremen, caulkers, tappers, watchmen, oilers. Thirteenth. The janitor of the city building, bell ringers, commissioners of deeds. Schedule B includes all clerks, copyists, recorders, stenographers, bookkeeepers and others rendering clerical services, and not included in Schedule A, and all policemen, firemen, messengers, orderlies, court attendants, guards and keepers in stationhouses, and all persons employed or appointed in the public service and not specially included in Schedules A, C, and D. Schedule C.-1. Chief of police, chief engineer of the fire department, deputy engineer and surveyor, district physicians, engineer and secretary of park commissioners, superintendent of the water-works, surgeon of the police department, veterinary surgeon of the fire department. 2. Schedule C includes all persons whose duties are strictly professional, and all persons who are employed in private business and occasionally render public service for a nominal compensation, hosemen, laddermen. Schedule D.- First.- Park department: Laborers. Second. Street department: Laborers, cartmen, teamsters. Third.- Water department: General laborers, day workmen. Fourth.- Schedule D shall include all persons employed as laborers or day workmen. (As amended January 24, 1890.) Regulation V.- The appointments to positions comprised in Schedule A may be made without examination under these regulations, but such examinations may be had upon the request of the appointing officer. Appointing officers must notify the mayor in writing of all appointments to such positions within five days after the same are made, setting forth the full name of such appointee, date and place of birth, length of residence in Albany, nature of previous employment, whether he has ever been in official service before, and, if so, when and where, date of beginning of service and term for which appointed, salary, name of person in whose place appointed; the same to be duly certified by the appointing officer. Regulation VI.- Appointments shall be made or employment shall be given in the positions in Schedule B by selection from those persons graded highest as the results of open competitive examinations, provided that vacancies in the higher positions in this schedule may be filled by the promotion of those holding lower positions in the office, department or institution where such vacancies occur, and who have passed an examination under these regulations. The competitive examinations shall be practical in their character, and with a paramount regard to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined for the service which they seek to enter. Applications of competitors for positions included in Schedule P must be addressed to the Secretary of the Municipal Service Examining Board, City Hall, Albany, and the applicant must state therein, on oath, and in his own handwriting: 1. His full name, residence, giving street and street number. 2. His term of residence in the city. 3. His citizenship. 4. His date of birth. 5. His place of birth. 6. His previous employment in the public service, if any. 7. His business or employment for the last preceding five years. 8. The extent, place and nature of his education. 9. If in the military or naval service of the United States in the late war, give name of organization or vessel to which attached, date of enlistment or commission, position or rank, date and cause of discharge from the service, and any physical disabil ity incurred in such service. 10. Such other information may be furnished as the mayor may reasonably require, touching the applicant's fitness for the public service. The application must be accompanied 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 be likely to interfere with the proper discharge of his duties in the position in the civil service sought by such applicant, and by the certificate of not less than three nor more than five reputable citizens of the city, 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 which he wishes to enter, and that they are willing that such certificate shall be published for public information, and will, upon application, give such further testimonials in regard to such applicant as may be required. The applicant must also state in his application the position he seeks. Applications for the office of commissioner of deeds need not be accompanied by a physician's certificate and all attorneys-at-law in good standing shall be exempt from all examinations for such office. (As amended December 29, 1884.) Regulation VII.-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. The date of the reception of all applications shall be indorsed thereon and entered of record, and if the applicants for admission are in excess of the number that can be examined at a single examination, they will be notified to appear in their order on the respective records. Regulation VIII. For the purpose of ascertaining the qualifications of persons seeking or named for positions in the departments and offices of the municipal government, to which these regulations apply, there shall be two boards of examiners, namely: One for all positions in Schedule B, and one for all positions in Schedule C. Each of such boards shall be composed of three citizens of Albany, designated by the mayor, and not more than two of whom shall belong to the same political party. The mayor may at any time substitute another citizen in the place of any one so designated, by filing with the city clerk a written notification of such change, and will detail or employ a clerk who shall act as the secretary of the examining boards. It shall be the duty of such boards of examiners to conduct all examinations called for under these regulations, to ascertain the fitness of candidates for the service of the city, in respect to character, knowledge and ability for the branch of the service into which they seek to enter, and to estimate and determine the relative excellence or standing of the persons examined, and to certify the same in such manner and form as may be prescribed. The secretary of the boards shall keep the minutes of their proceedings and all necessary records of applicants, their examinations and standings, and a complete record of all persons employed in the several departments to which these rules apply, and of all appointments, promotions, dismissals, resignations and changes of any sort therein. When not in attendance upon the examining boards, the secretary will act under the direction of the mayor. Regulation IX.- Whenever the demands of the service may require, the examining board will notify the applicants on record, or such number thereof as can be examined conveniently at one time, to appear for examination, giving place, date and hour for such examination. Regulation X.- Under the direction of the mayor, the boards of examiners will prepare lists of subjects of examination for admission to the several positions in Schedule B, and such list shall comprise obligatory subjects upon which each applicant must be examined; to such lists of obligatory subjects there may be added certain other subjects in which the applicant may be examined or not, at his option. The general standing of each applicant shall depend solely upon his relative proficiency in the obligatory subjects; for the purpose of determining the general average standing, certain relative weights will be given to the obligatory subjects, which weight shall be adjusted to the relative importance of the subjects. Regulation XI.- No person whose standing on any obligatory subject is less than fifty, or whose ascertained average standing on all the obligatory subjects is less than seventy, will be entered upon the eligible list. Regulation XII.-The names of the persons who have passed above the minimum, as set forth in the previous regulation, will be entered upon a register in the order of their excellence, and opposite each name will be entered the standing of such person in each optional subject in which he may have been examined. Regulation XIII.-1. Whenever any officer having the power of appointment to, or employment in, any position in Schedule B shall so request, the board of examiners shall certify to him the names of three eligible persons who are graded highest on the proper register, indicating such of them, if any, as have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States in the late war. 2. From the three persons whose names are so certified, the officer shall make a selection to fill the vacant place, subject, however, to the provisions of law, giving preference to persons who have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States in the late war. 3. Whenever such request shall indicate that proficiency in any of the specified optional subjects is of prime importance in the position to be filled, the board of examiners will certify the names of the three persons in the eligible list having the highest standing, not below the minimum of seventy, in such optional subject. The mayor shall have power to order a new or special examination whenever there are no persons on the eligible list sufficiently qualified in such optional subjects. 4. In the selection from the persons whose names are certified as above, the appointing or employing officer, upon his written requisition therefor, will be furnished with the application and examination papers of all the persons so certified, and in the exercise of his responsible power of selection, he may summon personally before him the certified persons, for such verbal inquiry as he may deem proper. All papers furnished upon requisition as above, must be returned to the secretary of the examining board. Regulation XIV. Whenever physical qualifications are of prime importance to the proper discharge of the duties in any position, applicants must pass an additional examination as to their physical condition and capacity, and be certified as qualified in such respects before recorded on the proper eligible list for selection for the position, or before certification by the board of examiners as qualified for such selection. Regulation XV.-1. No person on any register shall be certified more than three times to the same officer, except upon the request of such officer, nor shall any one remain eligible more than two years on any register. 2. Upon satisfactory evidence produced to the mayor that any person whose name is on any eligible list is, by reason of character, habits or past reputation, unfit for admission to the public service, the name of such person shall be formally stricken from such eligible list. 3. No person who has entered upon any examination for a position in Schedule B or Schedule C shall be admitted within one year from the date thereof to a new examination for the same grade of position. Regulation XVI.- The positions in Schedule C may be filled by the appointing officer, in his discretion, in respect to the method of examination; the discretion of the officer in such cases shall be limited as follows: 1. He may select from the three persons graded highest as the result of an open competitive examination; or 2. He may name to the mayor three or more persons for competitive examination, and appoint the one graded highest in such examination; or 3. He may appoint or employ any person named by him who, upon a non-competitive examination, shall be duly certified by the examining board as qualified to discharge the duties of the position. Regulation XVII. Upon the non-competitive examination into the qualifications of a person named to the mayor for a position. in this schedule, the examining board will give a certificate to such person only when satisfied (1) that he is within the limits of age prescribed by the position or employment to which he has been named; (2) that he is properly certified as free from any physical defect or disease which is likely to interfere with the proper discharge of his duties; (3)that his character is such as to qualify him for such position or employment; and (4) that he possesses the requisite knowledge and ability to enter on the discharge of his official duties. An officer naming to the mayor a person for examination will at the same time transmit his |