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less or biased administration was shown in any given branch of 

 the service, investigation of each case would be made until im- 

 provement in conditions made it unnecessary. It would be 

 physically impossible for the Civil Service Commission to give 

 the careful consideration to every case that is usually given by 

 administrative officers in the bureaus and departments. This 

 is, however, quite unnecessary. But to be in a position to advise 

 and approve, and to investigate when need be, is possible and 

 very necessary. 



9. APPOINTMENTS, TRANSFERS, AND REINSTATEMENTS 



The method heretofore in use by the Civil Service Commis- 

 sion of certifying names for appointment upon request should be 

 continued. Such names will be taken from registers established 

 by examinations (assembled or non-assembled) or from lists of 

 persons eligible for reinstatement or transfer. Appointments 

 should be made at salaries that are just and in accord with the 

 standardized scale. Credit should be given for experience or 

 qualifications in excess of the minimum required for appointment 

 to any given class. 



A requirement that appointments be made always to the low- 

 est grade of the class entered, and hence that men and women 

 of widely varying qualifications be graded together and given 

 the same salary upon entrance, or any other limitation that 

 prevents doing justice to new appointees, will result in serious 

 injury to the service without any compensating advantage. 



It is impossible always to rate men accurately on entering, 

 and a careful appointing officer, no matter how conscientious, will 

 often find that he has given a man on entering less than he 

 deserves. When it is demonstrated that such is the case, the 

 error should be corrected, and hence it will sometimes be neces- 

 sary to advance the pay sooner than usual. On the other hand, 

 it will sometimes be necessary to reduce the pay and grade. 



In some branches of the service new appointees are of prac- 

 tically no value to the government until they have gone through 

 a course of special instruction to qualify them for their duties. 

 Their entering salaries are less than would otherwise be given. 



