Schedule B positions competitive. Rule 8. 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.

Competitive examinations to be practical, time and place of; notice to be given. Rule 9. The competitive examinations shall be practical in their character, and with 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. The examinations shall be held at such times and places as the Commission may designate, and ten days' previous notice of each examination will be mailed to all eligible applicants of record. Special regulations in which the particular conditions (if any) of the examination will be specified, will be issued, when deemed expedient by the Commission, prior to the examinations.

Applications for examination; what to contain. Rule 10. All regular applications for admission to such competitive examinations will be on blanks in a form prescribed by the Commission, and the applicant must state therein on oath, and in his own handwriting: 1. His full name, residence and post-office address. 2. His term of residence in this State. 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. 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 disability incurred in such service. 10. Such other information must be furnished as the Commission may reasonably require, touching the applicant's fitness for the public service.

The application must be accompanied (1) by a certificate of a practicing physician in 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 (2) by the certificate of not less than three nor more than five reputable citizens of this State that they have been per

sonally 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. The applicant must also state in his application the grade or subdivision in the schedule he seeks to enter, and whether he limits such application to any particular department, office or institution.

Defective applications.- Rule 11. 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. Whenever the application shows that the applicant is not within the prescribed limits of age, or otherwise not qualified under the rules and regulations, or is manifestly unfit for the service, the application will be rejected.

Applications to be filed, etc.; notification to appear; soldiers, etc., preferred.— Rule 12. The date of the reception of all applications shall be endorsed thereon, and entered of record by the Commission, and if the applicants for admission to any grade or subdivision 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 persons who have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States in the late war shall have precedence in such notification.

Boards of examiners to be designated. Rule 13. For the purpose of making examinations of applicants from time to time, as may be required, the Commission will designate and select, at Albany and other places, a suitable number of persons to be members of boards of examiners, and will duly commission such persons as examiners; and the Commission may at any time substitute any persons selected as examiners are in the official service of the State, the head of the department or office in which such persons serve shall be consulted; and in the discharge of their duties as examiners the persons so selected from the official service will be responsible solely to the Commission, and will act under its regulations and direction.

any other person in place of any one so selected. When

Chief examiner to prepare lists of subjects for examination, etc.; standing of applicants, how determined.- Rule 14. Under the direction of the Commission the chief examiner will prepare a list of subjects of examination for the several grades and subdivisions in this schedule upon which each applicant must be examined. To such list 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 weights shall be adjusted to the relative importance of the subjects.

Minimum standing.- Rule 15. 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.

Names of successful candidates to be entered in register, etc.Rule 16. The names of the persons who have passed above the minimum, as set forth in the previous rule, 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.

Manner of certification; appointments.-Rule 17. 1. Whenever an officer having the power of appointment to or employment in any grade or subdivision in this schedule shall so request, the Commission 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 Rule 44, giving preference in appointment to certain persons.

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 Commission may certify the names of

the three persons in the eligible list having the highest standing (not being below the minimum of seventy) on such optional subject. The Commission 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, or whenever an appointing officer shall apprise the Commission that any special qualifications are required for the position vacant. All positions filled by selections based on optional or special subjects will be especially noted in the published gazette of appointments, and in the official register of qualifications and schemes for examination as being special positions in respect to such qualifications.

4. In the selection from the persons whose names are certified as above by the Commission, 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 inquiries as he may deem proper. All papers furnished upon requisition as above, must be returned to the Commission with the notice of selection.

Applicants to pass physical examination, when.-Rule 18. Whenever physical qualifications are of prime importance in the proper discharge of duties in any position, applicants must pass a physical examination and be certified as qualified in such respect before record on the proper eligible list for selection for such position, or before certification by the Commission as qualified for such selection.

Same person certified to same officer three times only, unless, etc.; eligible list, term of; name may be stricken from, when; persons not admitted to new examination in same year, etc. Rule 19. 1. No person on any register shall be certified more than three times to the same officer, except upon request of such officer; nor shall any one remain eligible more than one year on any register.

2. Upon satisfactory evidence produced to the Commission that any person whose name is on any eligible list is, by reason of his character, habits or past reputation, unfit for admission to

the civil 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 C shall be admitted, within one year from the date thereof, to a new examination for the same grade or subdivision.

Schedule C positions enumerated according to general classification.*- Rule 20. Schedule C shall include the following positions :

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Scientific, expert and special employments, etc. Class 2. All persons of special qualifications (except those employed in the salt works, prisons, reformatories, asylums or other charitable and corrective institutions), including directors or curators of museums, geologists, botanists and entomologists and their respective assistants; librarians and their assistants; sanitary experts; inspectors of quarantine hospitals; medical superintendent of immigrants; health officers; in the office of the Comptroller, corporation tax clerk,' assistant corporation tax clerk, chief clerk of the bureau of canal affairs, chief tax clerk, land (or first assistant) tax clerk,3 tax correspondent,* special accountant,' agent for State lands, auction agent, and assistant auction agent, and messenger; in the office of the Secretary of State, chief clerk, confidential clerk and stenographer,7 corporation examiner, assistant corporation examiner, cashier and book-keeper, and two messengers; in the office of the Treasurer, check clerk,10 and corporation tax clerk;" in the office of the Attorney-General, assistant to second deputy, brief clerk," and messenger;13 in the Department of Public Instruction, law clerk ;14 in the office of the Superintendent of State Prisons, the messenger;15 in the office of the agent and warden of Sing Sing Prison, the stenographer;16 in the office of the Factory Inspector, the private secretary; in the office of the Commission in Lunacy, the confidential clerk and stenographer;18 in the office of the Board of Claims, the stenographer;19 in the office of the General Inspector of Rifle Practice, the clerk;20 at the Institution for the Blind, Batavia, the musical director; the super

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*For general classifications see page 57.

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