tain as to the legality of said appointments, this Commission made the following resolution at meeting held January 11, 1910. Mr. Hamilton moved that the Secretary, in making his annual report to State Commission, endorse the same with the conditional approval of this Board as to the acts of the previous Civil Service Board. Mr. Brady seconded the motion. Motion put and carried."

APPENDIX I

DIGEST OF COURT DECISIONS RELATING TO CIVIL SERVICE LAW

OPINIONS OF ATTORNEY-GENERAL

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COURT DECISIONS

Digest of court decisions relating to civil service law

CIVIL SERVICE LAWS-AMENDMENT AND REPEAL OF STATUTES AND RULES

1. Subject to the provision of the Constitution that appointments and promotions in the Civil Service shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examination, etc., the Legislature may amend or repeal the Civil Service Law and the Rules of the Civil Service Commission either expressly or by implication. (PEOPLE ex rel. Murphy v. BINGHAM, 130 App. Div. 112; 114 N. Y. Supp. 702.)

CIVIL SERVICE LAWS AMENDMENT TO GREATER NEW YORK CHARTER, 276 TELEGRAPH OPERATOR RANKING AS LIEUTENANT OF POLICE TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT OF PATROLMEN TO DUTY IN TELEGRAPH BUREAU-SALARY.

2. The amendment (L. 1907, chap. 160) to section 276 of the revised charter of the city of New York declaring that telegraph operators in the police department shall rank as lieutenants of police is not applicable to patrolmen who before said amendment were temporarily assigned to duty in the telegraph bureau and continued in such duty without having passed a civil service examination for promotion to the rank of sergeant, telegraph operator or lieutenant and such appointee is not entitled to the salary of a lieutenant. (PEOPLE ex rel. MURPHY v. BINGHAM, 130 App. Div. 112; 114 N. Y. Supp. 702.)

See Removal, 4.

CLASSIFICATION.

See Mandamus, 2; New York City, 1, 6.

Coroner.

"Private Clerk," see Reinstatement, 2.