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REFORM IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. 



person habitually using intoxicating beverages to ex- 

 cess shall be appointed to or retained in any office, 

 appointment, or employment to which the provisions 

 of this act are applicable." 



12. I. Every regular application must be supported 

 by proper certificates of good moral character, health, 

 and physical and mental capacity for doing the public 

 work, the certificates to be in such form and number 

 as the regulations of the commission shall provide for. 

 But no certificate can be received which contains any 

 language inconsistent with the tenth section of the 

 Civil-Service Act. II. No one shall be entitled to be 

 examined for the classified postal service if under six- 

 teen or over thirty-five years of age, or for the classi- 

 fied customs service or for the classified service at 

 Washington, if under eighteen or over forty-five years 

 of age, and no one shall be examined for a clerk or 

 messenger who is under twenty-one years of age. But 

 these maximum limitations of age shall not apply to 

 those who have been honorably discharged from the 

 military or naval service during the last war and are 

 otherwise duly qualified. 



13. I. The date of the reception of all regular ap- 

 plications for the service at Washington shall be en- 

 tered of record by the commission, and of all other 

 applications by the proper examining boards of the 

 district or office for which they are made, and appli- 

 cants, when in excess of the number that can be exam- 

 ined at a single examination, shall be notified to ap- 

 pear in their order on the respective records. But 

 any applicants in the several States and Territories, 

 for the service at Washington, may be notified to ap- 

 pear before examination, at any place at which an ex- 

 amination is to be held, whether in any State or in 

 Washington, which shall be deemed most convenient 

 for them. II. The commission is authorized, in aid 

 of the apportionment among the States and Territo- 

 ries, to hold examinations "at places convenient for 

 applicants for several different States and Territories, 

 or for those examination districts which it may desig- 

 nate and which the President shall approve. 



14. Those examined shall be graded, and shall 

 have their grade marked upon a register after those 

 previously thereon, in the order of their excellence, 

 as shown by their examination papers, except that 

 those from any State or Territory ma^, be entered 

 upon the register together in the order of relative ex- 

 cellence to facilitate said apportionment. Separate 

 registers may be kept of those seeking to enter any 

 part of the service in which special qualifications are 

 required. 



15. The commission may give a certificate to any 

 person examined, stating the grade which such person 

 attained and the proficiency in the several subjects 

 shown by the markings. 



16. I. Whenever any officer having the power of 

 appointment or employment shall make request there- 

 for, there shall be certified to him by the commission 

 or the proper examining board four names for the va- 

 cancy specified, to be taken in order from the proper 

 register of those in his branch of the service and re- 

 maining eligible, regard being had to the apportion- 

 ment of appointment to States and Territories, and from 

 said four a selection shall be made for the vacancy. II. 

 These certifications for the service at Washington 

 shall be made in such order as to apportion as near- 

 ly as may be practicable the original appointments 

 thereto among the States and Territories and the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia upon the basis of population as as- 

 certained at the last preceding census. III. In case 

 the request for any such certification or any law or 

 regulation shall call for those of either sex 'the four 

 highest in order of that sex shall be certified ; other- 

 wise sex shall be disregarded in such certification. 

 IV. No person upon any register shall be certified 

 more than three times to the same officer in the cus- 

 toms or postal service, or more than twice to any de- 

 partment at Washington, unless upon request of the 

 appointing officer, nor shall any one remain eligible 

 more than one year upon any register, and no person, 



while remaining eligible on any register, shall be ad- 

 mitted to a new examination of the same grade. 



17. I. Every original appointment or employment 

 in said classified service shall be for the probationary 

 period of six months, at the end of which time, if the 

 conduct and capacity of the person appointed have 

 been found satisfactory, the probationer shall be ab- 

 solutely appointed or employed, but otherwise be 

 deemed out of the service. II. Every officer under 

 whom any probationer shall serve during any part of 

 the probation provided for by these rules shall care- 

 fully observe the quality and value of the service ren- 

 dered by such probationer, and shall report to the 

 proper appointing officer in writing the facts observed 

 by him, showing the character and qualifications of 

 said probationer and of the service performed by him, 

 and such reports shall be preserved on file. III. 

 Every false statement knowingly made by any person 

 in his application for examination, and every conniv- 

 ance by him at any false statement made in any cer- 

 tificate which may accompany his application, shall 

 be regarded as good cause for the removal or dis- 

 charge of such person during his probation. 



18. It shall be the duty of every head of a depart- 

 ment and office to notify the commission of the 

 naftie of every person appointed to or employed in an 

 official place in the classified service under mm, giv- 

 ing the date thereof and the designation of the oifice 

 or place from among those examined under said com- 

 mission ; and further, and in like manner, to inform 

 said commission of the date of any rejection or final 

 appointment of any said person after probation, and 

 of every case of the promotion, removal, discharge, 

 resignation, transfer, or death of any said person. 



19. There are excepted from examination under 

 these rules the following : I. The confidentif.l clerk 

 or secretary of any head of a department or office. II. 

 Cashiers of collectors. III. Cashiers of postmasters. 

 IV. Superintendents of money-order divisions in 

 post-ofhces. V. The direct custodians of money 

 for whose fidelity another officer is under official 

 bonds, but these exceptions shall not extend to any 

 official below the grade of assistant cashier or teller. 

 VI. Persons employed exclusively in the secret ser- 

 vice of the Government, or as translators or interpre- 

 ters or stenographers. VII. Persons whose employ- 

 ment is exclusively professional, as doctors or lawyers, 

 but no person so excepted shall be either transferred, 

 appointed, or promoted, unless to seme excepted 

 place, without an examination under the commission. 

 VIII. Heads of bureaus. 



20. If the failure of competent persons to attend 

 and be examined, or the prevalence of contagious dis- 

 ease or other sufficient cause, shall make it impracti- 

 cable to supply in due season for any vacancy persons 

 who have passed competitive examinations, such va- 

 cancy may l>e filled by any person who has passed a 

 noil-competitive examination, which the commission 

 may provide for, but its next report shall give the 

 reasons for every such resort to non-competitive ex- 

 aminations. 



21. The Civil-Service Commission will make ap- 

 propriate regulations for carrying these rules into ef- 

 fect. 



22. Every violation by any officer in the executive 

 civil service of these rules, or of the eleventh, twelfth, 

 thirteenth, or fourteenth sections of the Civil-Service 

 Act relating to political assessments, shall be good 

 cause for removal. 



These rules were not intended to cover ex- 

 aminations for promotions, those being left for 

 later consideration. On the 16th of May the 

 Civil-Service Commission adopted regulations 

 for the conduct of examinations. They were 

 as follow : 



1. The chief examiner shall, as far as practicable, 

 except when otherwise directed by the commission, 

 attend the examinations held by the several Boards 



