REFORM IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. 



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sixth grade clerks and like employes receiving an 

 annual compensation of $2,000 or more, but less than 

 $2,500; seventh grade clerks and like employe's 

 receiving an annual compensation of $2,500 or more. 

 Subdivision 2. Deputies and assistants of principal 

 officers or heads of departments, the clerk and reporter 

 of the Court of Appeals, the secretaries of State boards 

 and commissions (but not assistant secretaries, they 

 being rated as clerks), the chief examiner of the civil 

 service, treasurers of asylums, game and fish protect- 

 ors. Superintendent of Public Buildings. 



Class II. All persons of special qualifications (ex- 

 cept those employed in the Department of Public 

 Works, the salt-works, reformatories, asylums, and 

 other charitable and corrective institutions), including 

 directors or curators of museums, geologists, botanists, 

 and entomologists and their respective assistants, 

 librarians ana their assistants, civil engineers and 

 surveyors, chemists, sanitary experts, principals, pro- 

 fessors, and teachers in normal schools, inspectors ot 

 quarantine hospitals, medical superintendent of emi- 

 grants. 



Class III. All persons engaged in duties other than 

 lose of clerks in the courts and public offices and 

 wildings at Albany and the State arsenals, except as 

 aborers, and not included in the preceding classes, 

 subdivision 1. Court criers and attendants, court and 



her marshals. Subdivision 2. Superintendents and 



sistant superintendents in charge of public build- 

 igs under the General Superintendent. Subdivision 



Keepers and janitors of public buildings, arsenals, 



ireaus, etc., office messengers, orderlies in public 

 Buildings, watchmen, firemen, porters, and porter- 

 esses. Subdivision 4. Steam-engineers and all other 

 3rsons engaged in expert mechanical duties in public 

 uildings or arsenals. 



Class IV. All persons employed in the Department 

 Public Works other than the assistant superin- 



idents, collectors of statistics, and clerks (who are 

 icluded in Class I), and excepting laborers. Subdi- 

 'sion 1. Superintendents of repairs. Subdivision 2. 

 ispectors of boats and cargoes. Subdivision 3. First 



ide, rodmen and levelers ; second grade, assistant 

 Engineers below the rank of residents 5 third grade, 

 esident engineers ; fourth grade, division engineers. 

 Subdivision 4. All others employed in said depart- 

 icnt not otherwise classified ; first grade, all those 



giving an annual compensation of less than $500 ; 

 second grade, all those receiving an annual compensa- 

 "on of $500 or more. 



Class V. All persons employed in the Onondaga 

 -It-Works, except the deputy superintendent (Class 

 Subdivision 1. First grade, engineers, except 



: chief engineer, overseers of pumps, and super- 



ors of aqueducts and reservoirs ; second grade, chief 



jfineer. Subdivision 2 First grade, assistant in- 

 ^ 3ctors of salt or of barrels ; second grade, receiv- 

 ers and inspectors of salt or of barrels ; third grade, 

 chief inspector of salt and chief inspector of barrcjs. 

 Subdivision 3. All others employed and not otherwise 

 classified. 



C'ass VI. All persons employed in prisons and re- 

 formatories, except those included in Class I. Sub- 

 division 1. Wardens and agents of prisons, superin- 

 tendents of reformatories. Subdivision 2. Physicians, 

 chaplains, principal matrons. _ Subdivision 3. First 

 grade, guards in prisons ; second grade, keepers in 

 prisons receiving an annual compensation of $900 or 

 less ; third grade, keepers of prisons receiving an an- 

 nual compensation greater than $900 ; fourth grade, 

 1 principal keepers. Subdivision 4. Steam-engineers 

 1 others employed as expert mechanics in prisons 



id reformatories. Subdivision 5. First grade, teach- 

 ers in reformatories receiving an annual compensation 

 of less than $500 ; second grade, teachers receiving an 

 annual compensation of $500 or more^ but less than 

 $1,000; third grade, teachers receiving an annual 

 compensation of $1,000 or more. Subdivision 6. All 

 other persons employed in prisons and reformatories 

 except laborers ; first grade, such persons receiving an 



annual compensation of less than $500; second spade, 

 such persona receiving an annual salary of $5oO or 

 more. 



Class VII. All persons employed in asylums for 

 idiots, the insane, the blind, and in deaf and dumb, 

 and in other similar institutions, and by the Cmumi. 

 sioners of Emigration, cxcejpt those included in < '!U*M 



1 and laborers. Subdivision 1. Superintendent* of 

 insane asylums. Subdivision 2. Superintendent* of 

 asylums other than those for the inline. SuUliviM- 

 ion 3. Assistant physicians and potbologistB in in- 

 sane asylums. Subdivision 4. Physicians other than 

 those in insane asylums. Subdivision 6. Stewards of 

 asylums. Subdivision 6. Engineers and expert me- 

 chanics and tradesmen. Subdivision 7. First grade, 

 teachers receiving an annual compensation of leas 

 than $500 ; second grade, teachers receiving an annual 

 compensation of $500 or more. Subdivision 8. First 

 grade, attendants, nurses, and orderlies ; second grade, 

 supervisors of asylums and wards. Subdivision 9. 

 Superintendents employed in asylums and by the 

 Commissioners of Emigration. First grade, all such 

 persons receiving an annual compensation or less than 

 $500 ; second grade, all such persons receiving an an- 

 nual compensation of $500 or more. 



In the above classification the inclusion of any spe- 

 cified official in any class, subdivision, or grade, shall 

 not apply to any person acting as, or termed as, a dep- 

 uty or assistant of such official, nor to any persons 

 acting for such official, in case of absence, vacancy in 

 office, or otherwise. The term " deputy " or " as- 

 sistant" is not recognized in this classification unless 

 such designation is authorized by law. Where any 

 person receives a compensation rated, not by the year, 

 but by the day, week, or month, the classification of 

 such person, when dependent upon compensation, 

 will be based on his or her equivalent annual com- 

 pensation. This classification is not intended to de- 

 termine nor suggest any method of appointment to, 

 or examination for, any class, subdivision, or grade. 

 The subdivisions are intended to mark the distinct 

 kinds of qualification necessary hi each class, and the 

 grades in the subdivisions, are designed as steps for 

 advancement by formal promotion. The omission in 

 the above classification of any official designation or 

 appellation of a position in the service will not exclude 

 such position from the classification, as it will be coin- 

 prised in the class to which it belongs by the general 

 specification of such class. 



On submitting to the Governor the rules of 

 the commission regulating admission to the 

 service, December 6th, the commissioners said : 

 " In the inauguration of a new system radically 

 changing the methods of appointments to the 

 civil service some features must necessarily be 

 experimental. The commission has, therefore, 

 deemed it prudent to make the application of 

 the system in a measure progressive rather 

 than final at the outset. Any modifications 

 required can be made as they shall become ap- 

 parent by experience." The rules do not in the 

 general principles vary materially from those 

 of the National Commission. They provide 

 for appointments and promotions in -the vari- 

 ous grades of the service as established by the 

 classification given above. These are arranged 

 in -five schedules, designated A, B, C, D, and E. 

 The first includes the positions in subdivision 



2 of Class I, and appointments may be made 

 to these without examination, though exami- 

 nations may be held at the reqnest of the ap- 

 pointing officer, and the commission must be 

 notified of all appointments within five days 

 after they are made. Schedule B includes the 



