Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-12-28

but duty of the President, and his sane
ton, whether to the rules now submitted
or to any scheme. will more surely pro-
mote the purity and efficiency of the civil
service Of the country. He most earnest
] ly desires, if that sanction should be de-
layed, that the rules adopted for his ac-
ton by the President could not bind his
successor. But unless we are wholly
mistaken the reform would serve to indi-
cate itself to the good sense of the coun-
try. and that the people themselves would
reject any party that proposed to intro
dnce it into the present practice. The
improvement of the civil service is en-
phatically the peoples cause and the peo-
pies reform, and the administration
which vigorously begins it will acquire
glery only less than that of the salvation
Of free Union. [Signedl
G. w. Curtis, JOSEPH MEDIL,
- DAVIDSON, A. WALKER,
E. b. ELLIOTT, Jos. BLACKMAN
DAVID c. Cox, A. G. CArTEL.
RULES
/. person shall be admitted to any
position in the civil service, within the
appointment of the President or heads of
departments, who is not citizen of the
niteo States, who shall not have fur
nisled satisfactory evidence in regard to
character, health and age, and who shall
not have passed a satisfactory exalnina
ton in speaking, reading and writing the
Er ish language
An advisory board of such persons
- be employed by the President under
the 9Th section of the act of March Sd,
1871, entitled an act to make appropria-
tions for sundry civil expenses OF the
Government for the fiscal year ending
June 50th, 1872, and for other purposes,
shall, SO far as practicable, group posi-
ucns III each branch of the civil service
according to the character of the duties to
be 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 al
ways be to the lowest grade of any group,
and to such positions as can not be
grouped or graded admission shall be de-
termined as provided for the lowest
grade.
3. A vacancy occurring in the lowest
grade on any rank, the offices shall be
filled. after due public notice, from all APP
plicants who shall present themselves.
and who shall have furnished evidences
and satisfied the preliminary examination
already mentioned, and who shall have
passed public competitive examin tion
to test their knowledge, ability and speci-
al qualifications for the performance of
the duties of The office The board con-
ducting each competitive examination
shall prepare, under the supervision of
the adyisary board, TO test of the names
ofthe applicants in the order of their en-
cellence as proved by such examination,
and beginning with the highest, and shall
then certify To the nominating or appoint
ing power. as the case may be, the names
standing at the head of such list, not ex-
cceding three, and from the names these
certiiied appointments snail be made.
i. y vacancy occurring in any grade
of Government officers above the lowest.
shall be filled by competitive examination
ofapplicants from other grades. A group
and list OF names from which the apDoint-
ment is to he made shall be PREPARED and
certified as provided in the preceding ru lc.
But if no such applicants are found COM
petcnt the appointment shall be upon an
examination of all applicants, conducted
in accordance with the provisions for adj
mission to the lowest grade.
5. Applicants, certified or otherwise,
qualified for appointments as cashiers of
Collectors of Customs, Assistant Treas
urers' cashiers, postmasters, superintend-
ents of money o. der division in postoffices,
and such other custodians of large sums
OF money as may hereafter be designated
by the advision bo ard, and for whose Pc
cuniary fidelity another officer is respon-
sible. shall nevertheless not be appointed
except with the approval of such other
officer.
D. Po>tmasters whose annual salary is
less than $500 may be appointed upon the
written request of the applicant, with
such e idence of character and fitness as
shall be satisfactory to the head of the
Department.
Z. The appointment of all persons en-
tering the civil Sc vice in accordance with
the regulations, excepting persons ap-
pointed by the President, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, appoint
ment OF Postmasters, and persons ap
pointed to any position in foreign coun-
| try shall be made for probationary term
of six months, during which the conduct
and capicity of such persons shall be test
ed, and If at the end of such probationary
term satisfactory proofs of their fitness
shall have been furnished by board of
examiners to the head of the department
in which they shall have been employed
during said term, they shall be reap5oint-
ed
8. The President will designate three
persons in each department of the public
service to serve as Board of Examiners,
which, under the supervision of the Ad
visory Board and under regulations to be
prescribed by it, and at such times and
places as it may determine, shall conduct
personally, or by persons approved by the
Advisory Board, all investigations and
examinations for admission into said de-
partments, or for promotion therein.
| y. Any person who, after long and
faithful service in department, who shall
be incapacitated by mental or bodily in