The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-12-20

Signed GEO. WM CURTIS.
= ALEX. G. CATTELL,
Jos. MEDILL.
DAVIDSON A. WALKER.
Il. B. ELLIOTT.
= Jos. II. BLACHFORD.
DAVID Cox.
The following are the rules submitted
by the Commissioners
lst No person shall be admitted to any
position in the Civil Service within lh(
appointment OF the President or heads o
departments, who is not citizen OF thC
!, United States, and who shall not have
furnished satisfactory evidence in regard
to character, health and age, and who
shall not have passed satisfactory eXami
nation in speaking, reading and writing
the English language.
I'd, AnRdvis0ry board oi suitable per
persons to b0 employed by tho President
under the ninth section OF tho act OI
March Ord, 1871, entitled an act making
appropriations for the sundry civil expen'
sGs OF the government for the fiscal year
ending June Both, 1879, and Tor othel
purposes, shall so far as practicable group
the positions in each branch Of tho Civil
Service, according 10 the character Oi
duties TO DO performed, and shall grade
each group from the lowest to the highest
for the purpose Of promotion within the
group. Admission to the Civil Service
shall bc to the lowest grade Of any group
and to such position as cannot begrouped
or graded, admission shall bO determined
as provided for the lowest grade.
Sd. A vacancy occurring In tho lowest
grade Of any group, tho Offices shall be
filled, after due public notice, from oil ap.
pllcants who shall present themselves and
who shall have furnished evidences and
satisfied preliminary examination al
ready mentioned, and who shall have
passed q public competitive examination
TO test their knowledge, ability and special
qualifications for the performance Of the
duties Of the office. The board conducting
such competitive examination shall pre-.
pare, under the supervision Of an advisory
board, list Of names Of applicants in the
order Of their excellence, rs proved by
such examination, beginning with the
highest; and shall then certify to, nOmi.
mating an appointing power, ms the case
may be, the names standing at the head
OF such list, not exceeding three, and from
the names thus certified an appointment
shall be made.
4th. A vacancy occurring In any grade
or group Of offices above tho lowest shall
be filled by competitive examination. Ap.
pllcants from other grades ol that group
and list of names, from which appoint.
ments are to be made, shall DO prepared
and certified TO as provided in the pro-
Ceedng rule; but II no such applicants aIG
found competent, the appointments arc TO
be made upon an examination OF oil the
applicants, conducted In accordance with
the provisions for admission to the lowest
grade. .............. ....
9th. Applicants certified to or otherwise
qualified for tho appointments rs cashiers,
collectors of customs cashiers, assistant
teasurers cashiers, postlnNsters, superin.
tendent money order division inpostollCes,
and such other custodians Of large sums Of
money as may hereafter be designated by
the advisory board, and for whose peCu.
mary fidelity another officer Is rcsponsi.
Bile, shall nevertheless not be appointed,
except with the approval of such other
officer.
9th. POstmastcrs whose annual salary
is less than 5000, may be appointed upon
Il writSen request Of tho applicants, with
such evidence of character and fitness as
shall be satisfactory 10 the head of the
department.
9TH. The appointment Of oil persons en-.
tering the civil service in accordance with
these regulations, excepting persons ap-
pointed by the President, by and with the
advice and consent Of the Senate, appoint.
ments of postmasters, and persons appoint
cd to any position in q foreign country,
shall DO made for n probationary term Of
six months, during which the conduct and
capacity Of such persons shall be tested,
and IL at the end Of such probationary
term satisfactory proofs Of their fitness
shall have been furnished by the board Of
examiners to the head Of the department
in which they shall have been employed
during said term, they shall be re-
appointed.
9Th. The President will designate three
persons in each department Of the public
service TO serve rs board OF examiners,
which shall be under the supervision Of
the advisory board, and under the rcgula.
tions to be, prescribed by II, at such times
and place as II may determine, which
shall conduct personally or bypersons,
approved by tho advisory board, oil in
vestigations and examinations for adnlis.
sion into sail departments, or for promo
ton therein. - .He.E3A \
OH. Any person who, after long and
faithful service In department, shall be
incapacitatcd by mental or bodily intirm-
tiles in the efficient discharge ol the duties
oil his position, may be appointed by The
head Of the department. at his discretion,
to n position Of u less responsibility in
the same department. ..,..
10th. Nothing in these rules shall pre-.
vent the appointment of aliens 10 positions
in the consular service, which, by reason
of small compensation or other sufficient
cause arc, In the judgment of the appoint.
Ing power, necessarily so fitted for the
appointment, such persons within the Uni.
ted States as are Indispensable to the
proper discharge Of the duties Of certain
positions, but who may not be familior
with the English language or legally Gu
pable Of naturalization.
11th. No head ofdepartment nor any
subordinate officer Of the Government,
shall, ns such officer, authorize or permit
or assist in levying an assessment OF
money for political purposes, under the
form Of voluntary contributions or other.
wise, on any person employed under their
control, nor shall my such person pay any
money so assessed.
18th. The advisory board shall at any
time recommend 10 the President such
changes in these rules as II may consider
necessary to secure greater efficiency oi
the civil service.
18th. From these rules are excepted
|, heads OF departments assistants, seCreta.
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