Navy building, make examination of said building and set apart such portions thereof for the use and occupancy of the State, War, and Navy Departments respectively as in their judgment the best interests of the public service and the needs of said departments respectively may require and upon filing an agreed statement of such partition by said joint select committee in triplicate with the respective Secretaries of such departments the building shall be occupied as therein provided as soon thereafter as practicable. Sec. 6, act of August 5, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 256). The President is hereby authorized and directed to Corps as super designate from the Engineer Corps of the Army or the Navy, an officer well qualified for the purpose, who shall have supervibe detailed to act as superintendent of the completed porMarch 3, 1883, tions of the State, War, and Navy Department building, Detail of officer of Engineer intendent, authorized. Commission to sion, etc. v. 22, p. 553. under direction of the Secretaries of State, War, and Navy, who are hereby constituted a commission for the purposes of the care and supervision of said building, as hereinafter specified. Said officer shall have charge of said building, and all the engines, machinery, steam and water supply, heating, lighting, and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and all other fixtures in said building, and all necessary repairs and alterations thereof, as well as the direction and control of such force of engineers, watchmen, laborers, and others engaged about the building or the apparatus under his supervision; of the cleaning of the corridors and water closets; of the approaches, side-walks, lawns, court-yards, and areas of the building, and of all rooms in the sub basement which contain the boilers and other machinery, or so much of said rooms as may be indispensable to the proper performance of his duties as herein provided. Act of March 3, 1883 (22 Stat. L., 553). 1 DISPOSITION OF USELESS PAPERS. For statutes regulating the disposition of useless papers, etc., in the several Exeentive Departments, see the acts of February 16, 1889 (25 Stat. L., 672), and March 2, 1895 (28 Stat. L., 933). CHAPTER IV. PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO SEVERAL CLASSES l'ar. OF OFFICERS. 83. President to regulate admissions to the civil service. 81. Preference of persons disabled in military or naval service. 83. Recommendation for employment of such persons. 6. Preference in reductions. 87. Appointment of Commissioners, removals, salaries, and traveling expenses. *8. Duties of Commissioners: Competitive examinations, vacancies, how filled, apportionment, applications for examination, probation, po- | litical contributions, coercion, noncompetitive examinations, notice of changes, exceptions to rules, regulations for examinations, investigations, etc. 89. Chief examiner, secretary, boards of examiners. 90. Accommodations for Commis sion. 91. Frauds. 92. Customs classification; postoffice classification. 93. Examination required for appointment and promotion; preference claimants; exclusions. 94. Persons using intoxicating 95. Members of a family. bers of Congress. 97. Political assessments. Par. 98. Soliciting contributions for political purposes forbidden. 99. Change of rank or compensation. 10). Political contributions forbidden. 101. Penalty for violation of pre- 102. Applications for examination 104. Official oaths. 105. Not to affect existing rights, etc. 106. Oath for certain persons. 109. Unauthorized office, no salary for. 110. No salaries to certain ap- 112. Holding offices by persons 114. Extra allowances. 115. Pay of officer in arrears to be withheld. 116. Commissions. 117. Notifications of appointments to Secretary of Treasury. President to regulate admis service. Mar. 3, 1871, c. 514. Sec. 1753, R. S. 83. The President is authorized to prescribe such regusions to the civil lations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency 114, s. 9, v. 16, P. thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of the service into which he seeks to enter: and for this purpose he may employ suitable persons to conduct such inquiries, and may prescribe their duties, and establish regulations for the conduct of persons who may receive appointments in the civil service.' Preference of 84. Persons honorably discharged from the military or in military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds Mar. 3, 1865, or sickness incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices. persons disabled naval service. Res. No. 27, s. 1, v. 13, p. 571. Sec. 1754, R. S. Recommenda tion for employ sons. Res. No. 27, s. 2, Sec. 1755, R. S. 85. In grateful recognition of the services, sacrifices, and ment of such per sufferings of persons honorably discharged from the miliMar. 3, 1895. tary and naval service of the country, by reason of wounds, v. 13, p. 571. disease, or the expiration of terms of enlistment, it is respectfully recommended to bankers, merchants, manufacturers, mechanics, farmers, and persons engaged in industrial pursuits, to give them the preference for appointments to remunerative situations and employments. Preference in 86. In making any reduction of force in any of the ExecAug. 15, 1876, utive Departments, the head of such Department shall retain those persons who may be equally qualified who have been honorably discharged from the military or naval reductions. v. 19, p. 169. See the title The Civil Service Law, post. service of the United States, and the widows and orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors. Act of August 15, 1876 (19 Stat. L., 169). THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. of commission ers. 87. That the President is authorized to appoint, by and Appointment with the advice and consent of the Senate, three persons, Jan. 16, 1883, v. not more than two of whom shall be adherents of the same 22, p. 403. party, as Civil Service Commissioners, and said three commissioners shall constitute the United States Civil Service Commission. Said commissioners shall hold no other official place under the United States. Act of January 16, 1883 (22 Stat. L., 403). 88. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners: First. To aid the President, as he may request, in preparing suitable rules for carrying this act into effect, and when said rules shall have been promulgated it shall be the duty of all officers of the United States in the Departments and offices to which any such rules may relate to aid, in all proper ways, in carrying said rules, and any modifications thereof, into effect.' The act of July 7, 1898, contained the requirement that the temporary force therein authorized and the clerical force and other employees appropriated for in the act to provide ways and means to meet war expenditures, and for other purposes, approved June 13, 1898, and the act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the payment of pensions and for other objects, for the fiscal year 1898, and for other purposes, approved May 31, 1898, shall be appointed for a term not exceeding one year, as authorized, respectively, without compliance with the conditions prescribed by the act entitled 'An act to regulate and improve the civil service, approved January 16, 1883." Under the authority conferred by this section the following rules have been prepared and issued by the President: CIVIL SERVICE RULES. (Revised May 6, 1896.) Duties of com- missioners. Sec. 2, ibid. SYNOPSIS OF RULES. RULE I. Regulations to be prescribed; definition of terms. RULE II. Penalties and prohibitions; status of persons after their positions are classified. RULE III. Extent of each of the five branches of the classified service; employees excluded from the classified service. RULE IV. Examinations authorized; when noncompetitive examinations may be held; appointment and duties of boards of examiners; executive officers to facilitate examinations. RULE V. Restrictions governing applicants and applications; disqualifications of applicants and eligibles; age limitations of applicants. RULE VI. Exceptions from examinations. RULE VII. Rating of examination papers; relative standing of eligibles; relative standing of preference claimants; registration of applicants; term of eligibility. RULE VIII. Certifications and selections for filling vacancies; revocation of appointments of eligibles not entitled to certification; probationary period and abso fute appointment: objection by appointing officer to eligible; apportionment of appointments in Washington, D. C.; to what class appointment must be made; Second. And, among other things, said rules shall provide and declare, as nearly as the conditions of good administration will warrant, as follows: First, for open, competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for the public service now classified or to be classified hereunder. Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed. Second, that all the offices, places, and employments so arranged or to be arranged in classes shall be filled by eligibles with same average percentage; districts to be formed for filling vacancies in certain positions; appointment and promotion of substitutes; temporary or emer gency appointments. RULE IX. Reinstatements. RULE X. Transfers. RULE XI. Promotions. RULE XII. List of all positions and employments and reports of changes in service to be furnished to Commission. In the exercise of power vested in him by the Constitution, and of authority given to him by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section or the Revised Statutes, and by an act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States. approved January 16, 1883, the President hereby makes and promulgates the follow ing rules, and revokes all others. RULE I. Commission 1. The United States Civil Service Commission shall have anthority to prescribe to prescribe reg regulations in pursuance of, and for the execution of, the provisions of these rules and of the civil-service act. ulations. Definitions of 2. The several terms hereinafter mentioned, wherever used in these rules or the regulations of the Commission, shall be construed as follows: termis. (a) The term "Civil Service Act" refers to "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883. (b) The term Classified Service" refers to all that part of the executive civil service of the United States included within the provisions of the civil-service act (c) The term "Grade," in connection with employees or positions, refers to a group of employees or positions in the Classified Service arranged upon the basis of duties performed without regard to salaries received. (d) The term "Class," in connection with employees or positions, refers to a group of employees or positions in any grade arranged upon the basis of salaries received, in pursuance of the provisions of section 163 of the Revised Statutes and of section 6 of the civil-service act. (e) The term "Excepted position " refers to any position within the provisions of the civil-service act, but excepted from the requirement of competitive examination or registration for appointment thereto. RULE II. Dismissal for 1. Any person in the executive civil service of the United States who shall will violation of act fully violate any of the provisions of the civil-service act or of these rules shall be or rules. dismissed from office. No interfer- 2. No person in the executive civil service shall use his official authority or ence with elec- official influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or controlling the tions. result thereof. No dismissal or 3. No person in the executive civil service shall dismiss, or cause to be dismissed. change of rank or make any attempt to procure the dismissal of, or in any manner change the for political or re- official rank or compensation of any other person therein because of his political or ligious opinions. religious opinions or affiliations. No disclosures 4. No question in any examination, or form of application, shall be so framed as of political or re- to elicit information concerning, nor shall any inquiry be made concerning, nor any ligious opinions other attempt be made to ascertain, the political or religious opinions or affiliations of applicants, of any applicant, competitor, or eligible; and all disclosures thereof shall be dis countenanced. And no discrimination shall be exercised, threatened, or promised against or in favor of any applicant, competitor, or eligible because of his political or religious opinions or affiliations. etc. Recommenda- 5. No recommendation of an applicant, competitor, or eligible, involving any dis tions that can not closure of his political or religious opinions or affiliations, shall be received, filed be received, filed, or considered by the Commission, by any board of examiners, or by any nominating or considered. or appointing officer. Penalties like in character. 6. In making removals or reductions, or in imposing punishment, for delinquency or misconduct, penalties like in character shall be imposed for like offenses, and |