September 3, 1883, and the positions now comprised in, or hereafter entered in, such classification shall, in the aggregate, be taken as the civil service of the State referred to herein, and the term "public service" shall be taken to comprehend all persons in the service of the State, without regard to such classification.

Political contributions.

Rule 2. No person in the public service is, for that reason, under any obligation to contribute to any political fund or purpose, or to render any political service, and no person shall be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing so to do.

Official authority to coerce political action prohibited. Rule 3. No person in the public service has the right to use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body.

Places to be classified; transfers in schedules to be published. Rule 4. For the purpose of indicating the manner in which selections shall be made for filling the positions in the civil service, when vacant, such positions shall be enrolled by class, subdivision, grade or name in some one of the five schedules, designated respectively as A, B, C, D and E, which schedules are hereto annexed and form a part of these rules. The right is reserved to transfer, hereafter, any position from one schedule to another, as from time to time the conditions of good administration or the general interests of the public service may require, in which case prompt publication of any such transfer will be made to all concerned.

Schedule A to include deputies; confidential officers; fiduciary officers; etc.-Rule 5. Schedule A shall include the deputies of principal officers, duly authorized by law to act for their principals; all officers, clerks and others whose official relations are necessarily strictly confidential to the head of the office in which they serve; officers or others under official bonds as security for the collection, custody or disbursement of public moneys, or who, by virtue of their position, have the custody of public moneys for the safe-keeping of which any officer must give bonds, and

such other positions as may now or hereafter be included in this schedule, according to law, and such schedule shall comprise the following positions:

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Schedule A positions enumerated according to general classification. Class 1. Subdivision 2. In the office of the Secretary of State, the deputy secretary; in the office of the Comptroller, the deputy comptroller, confidential clerk,' and accountant; in the office of the Treasurer, the deputy treasurer, the chief clerk, the cashier, the bookkeeper, and the pay clerk; in the office of the Attorney-General, the deputies, assistant in New York city, and the confidential clerk; in the office of the State Engineer and Surveyor, the deputy, and resident and division engineers in the Department of Public Instruction, the deputy, the confidential clerk and stenographer, financial clerk, and the confidential inspector of school buildings; in the Banking Department, the deputy, the examiners, and the private secretary; in the Insurance Department, the deputy, the chief clerk, the cashier, the chief actuary, four assistant actuaries," the private secretary, the special examiners," and the stenographers and typewriters; in the office of the Superintendent of Prisons, the clerk; in the office of the Court of Appeals, the clerk, deputy clerk, reporter, and messenger; in the office of the Inspector-General, the assistant inspector-general, the chief clerk, in the office of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor, the chief clerk,15 and six special agents; in the office of the Dairy Commissioner assistant commissioners," experts and agents," cheese, butter and vinegar experts," cheese instructors" and chemists;" in the office. of the Superintendent of Public Buildings, the superintendent, and cashier and book-keeper;18 in the office of the Board of Claims, the clerk and deputy clerk ;19 in the office of the Regents of the University, the secretary, director of examinations,20 the honorary university examiners," and the medical examiners;21 in the office of the New York Board of Excise, the secretary, counsel, cashier, and four special detectives; Board of Electrical Control, New York city, the chief engineer, and assistant secretary; secretary and assistant secretary" to the State Board of Health; the secretaries of the Railroad Commission, the Board of Charities, the Commission in Lunacy, the Forest Commis

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sion, and the New York Civil Service Commission; the chief examiner of the New York Civil Service commission; chaplains in the State service; treasurers of asylums; game and fish protectors; principals," professors and teachers in Normal schools; in the office of the Adjutant-General, the assistant adjutantgeneral, the confidential clerk; the State agent for discharged convicts law assistant and private stenographer" to the surrogate, New York city; the chief clerk of the Superior Court, court of Common Pleas, City Court, Court of General Sessions, Court of Special Sessions, Surrogate's Court and each District Court, New York city; secretary of the Board of Police Justices; the police clerk of each Police Court; the clerk and assistant clerk of each District Court, New York city; interpreters in courts; confidential clerk in the department of the State Geologist; adjutant in the State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home; confidential assistant Superintendent Elmira

Reformatory.

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1. Transferred from Schedule B to A, January 27, 1884; 2. Schedule B to A, June 25, 1890; 3. Schedule B to A, February 15. 1888; 4. Schedule C to A, July 26, 1886: 5. Schedule B to A. August 31, 1885; 6. Schedule B to A, July 26, 1892; 7. Schedule B to A, January 8, 1886; 8. Schedule B to A, May 20, 1884; 9. Schedule B to A, December 10, 1890. 10. Schedule B to A, March 19, 1890; 11. Schedule B to A, May 12, 1885; 12. Schedule B to A, June 5, 1891: 13. Schedule B to A, February 20 1889; 14. Schedule B to A, July 13, 1886; 15. Schedule B to A, February 17, 1885; 16. Schedule B to A, February 7, 1889; 17. Schedule C to A, August 17, 1892; 18. Schedule B to A, October 17, 1887: 19. Schedule B to A, February 27, 1888; 20. Schedule B to A, March 11, 1892; 21. Schedule B to A, September 10, 1891; 22. Schedule B to A. July 26, 1886; 23. Schedule B to A, December 2, 1884; 24. Schedule B to A, September 10, 1889: 25. Schedule B to A, April 27, 1888; 26. Schedule B to A, August 18, 1892; 27. Schedule B to A, January 27, 1887; 28. Schedule C to A, January 3, 1889; 29. Schedule C to A, January 5, 1885; 30. Schedule B to A, April 30, 1892; 31. Schedule B to A, October 17, 1887; 32. Schedule B to A, December 2, 1884: 33. Schedule B to A, September 14, 1885; 34. Exempt, chap. 10, Laws of 1887; 35. Schedule B. to A, December 17, 1890; 36. Schedule B to A, February 26, 1892; 37. Schedule B to A, June 28, 1892; 38. Schedule B to A, June 28, 1892.

Schedule A positions may be filled without examination; officers to report appointments.- Rule 6. The appointments to positions comprised in Schedule A may be made without exami

nation under these rules, but such examinations may be had upon the request of the appointing officer. Appointing officers must notify the Commission, in writing, of all appointments to such positions within five days after the same are made.

Schedule B positions enumerated according to general classiffication.*- Rule 7. Schedule B shall include the following positions :

Clerks, etc., who receive less than $1,500 per annum.- Class 1. All clerks and other persons, of whatever designation, rendering services similar to those of clerks in any branch of the State service in the following grades:

Subdivision 1. First Grade. Clerks and like employes receiving an annual compensation of less than one thousand dollars.

Second Grade. Clerks and like employes receiving an annual compensation of one thousand dollars or more, but less than one thousand two hundred dollars.

Third Grade. Clerks and like employes receiving an annual compensation of one thousand two hundred dollars or more, but less than one thousand five hundred dollars.

Professional and expert employments.- Class 2. Civil engineers and surveyors; chemists; census enumerators.?

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Under the board of electrical control, the electrical expert;8 the inspectors of electrical conductors, the inspectors of underground construction.

1. Transferred from Schedule C to B, November 10, 1884; 2. Classified April 1, 1885; 3. Classified April 27, 1888.

Superintendents, messengers, etc. Class 3. Subdivision 2. Superintendents and assistant superintendents in charge of public buildings under the general superintendent.

Transferred from Schedule C to B, November 10, 1884.

Subdivision 3. Office messengers and orderlies in the courts,

offices and public buildings.' Junior clerks. Pages.

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1. Amended, April 24, 1890; 2. Classified, December 17, 1890; 3. Classified, February 7, 1889.

Subdivision 4. All steam engineers.

Transferred from Schedule D to B, November 10, 1884.

*For general classification see page 51.

Assistant engineers, rodmen, etc. Class 4. Subdivision 3. First Grade. Rodmen and levelmen.1

Second Grade. Assistant engineers' below the rank of resident..

1. Transferred from Schedule C to B, November 10. 1884.

Prisons, etc.

Class 6. In prisons and reformatories.

Subdivision 2. Physicians.

Transferred from Schedule C to B, November 10, 1884.

Subdivision 3. First Grade. Guards in reformatories.

Subdivision 4. Steam engineers.

Transferred from Schedule D to B, November 10, 1884.

Subdivision 5. First Grade. Teachers in reformatories receiving an annual compensation of less than $500.

Hospitals, etc.- Class 7. In asylums, hospitals and similar

institutions.

Subdivision 1. Superintendents of State hospitals.

Transferred from Schedule C to B, October 17, 1890.

Subdivision 3. Assistant physicians and pathologists in State hospitals in the lowest grade in each hospital. First assistant physicians in State hospitals. Female physicians.

Transferred from Schedule C to B, October 17, 1890.

Subdivision 7. First Grade. compensation of less than $500.

Teachers receiving an annual

Schedule B positions competitive. Rule S. 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.