DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 1 65 



THE SUPERVISORS' LAW RELATING TO THE GOV- 

 ERNMENT OF COUNTY PARKS. 



AN ACT in Relation to the Public Works of the County of 

 Kings and to Regulate Employment Thereon. Pursuant 

 to Chapter Six Hundred and Eighty-six, of the Laws 

 of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-two, Known as the 

 County Law, and the Acts Amendatory Thereof, and in 

 Conformity with Section Nine of Article Five, of the 

 Constitution. 



Passed July 1, 1895. — Approved by the Supervisor-at-Large, July 



5, l8 95- 



The People of the County of Kings, represented in the Board of Super- 

 visors, do enact as follows : 



Section I. On or before the fifteenth day of July, in the year one 

 thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, the Supervisor-at-Large of 

 the County of Kings, subject to the approval of the Board of Super- 

 visors, shall appoint a Civil Service Commission for said county, to 

 consist of three members, who shall, immediately after their organ- 

 ization by the election of a president and secretary, proceed to 

 examine and classify such persons as are or may be employed, or 

 may be applicants for employment upon or in the public works of 

 Kings County, said commission to continue in force until the com- 

 pletion of said public works authorized by existing statutes to be 

 carried out under the direction of the Commissioner of Parks of the 

 County of Kings. Any vacancy in said commission caused by death 

 or resignation may be filled at any time in the manner in which 

 the original appointment was made. 



Section II. The said Civil Service Commission, as hereinbefore 

 constituted, shall make such regulations for its own government and 

 guidance and for the examination and appointment of persons on 

 the public works of Kings County as a majority of said commission 

 in their best judgment shall consider and determine, to comply and 

 conform most practicably to the mandates of the constiLution and 

 the requirements and regulations of the State Civil Service Commis- 

 sion of civil service laws; and no appointments on public works of 

 the county shall be made except from the list prepared by the afore- 

 said Civil Service Commission hereby created and established, and 

 no place shall be given on said list to any person who is not a citizen 

 of the United States and a resident within the State and within the 

 County of Kings for two years past. The Commissioner of Parks 

 shall pay no wages from moneys raised by obligations against the 

 county, nor shall the County Treasurer to any person employed in 

 the public works of the county whose name does not appear on the 



