The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-12-28

Flueu Tor tie lowe grade.
Ihird-A vaucaley occurring in the
lowest grade Of any group Office shall
De filled after due public notice from
all applicants WHO shall present them
selves, and who shall have furnished
evidence and satisfied the preliminary
examination mentioned, and who
snail have passed q public competitive
examination to test their knowledge
OF special qualifications for the per-
fOrmance Of the duties Of the Office
The Board conducting competitive
examinations shall prepare, under
supervision of the advisory board, a
list Of names Of applicants in the order
OF their excellence, as proved by such
examinations, beginning the highest,
and shall then certify to the nOminat-
ing or appointing power, as the case
may be, the names standing the head
of such list, not exceeding three, and
from the names thus quoted the ap-
pOintment shall be made.
FOurth-A vacancy occurring in any
grade of offices above the lowest shall
be fill by competitive examination of
applicants from other grades of that
group, and the list of names from
shall be prepared and certified as prO-
vlded in the preceding rule. But if
no such applicants are found cOmpe-
tent, the appointment will be upon
I examination of all applicants, con-
Quoted il accordance with the prOvis-
ions for admission to the lowest grade.
/ Eifth-Applicants certified or other
| wise qualified for appointments as
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iers, assistants treasurer's cashiers,
/ pOstmasters, superintendent of mon
/ ey order division in the Post Office,
and such other custodians of large
sums of money as may hereafter be
/ designated by the advisory board, and
for whose pecuniary fidelity another
officer is responsible, shall neverthe-
less not be appointed except with the
approval Of such officer.
SiXth-POstmasters whose annual
salary is less than two hundred dollars
may be appointed upon the written
request Of the applicants, with such
evidence of character and fitness as
shall be satisfactory to the head of
the Department.
Seventh-The appointment of all
persons entering the civil service, in
accordance with these regulations, ex-
cepting persons appointed by the
President by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, appointments
OF pOstmasters, and persons appointed
to any position in a foreign country,
shall be made for the probationary
term of six months, during which the
conduct and capacity of such per-
sons shall he tested, and if, at the end
II such probationary term, satisfac-
tory proofs Of their fitness shall have
been furnished by the board of exam
liners to the department in which they
shall have been employed during said
term, they shall be re-appOinted.
Eighth-The President will desfg-
nate three persons in each department
of the public service to serve as a board
OF examiners, which under supervis-
ion of the advisory 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 advis-
ory board, all Investigations and ex-
aminatiOns for admissions into said
department, or for promotion there
in:
Ninth-Any person who, after long
and faithful service in a department,
shall be ineapacitated by mental or
bodily infirmity for the efficient dis
ch.rge of the duties of his position,
may be appointed by the head of de-
partment, at his discretion, to a posi-
ton of less responsibility in the same
department.
Tent-NOthing in these rules shall
prevent the appointment of aliens to
positions in the consular service,
which, by reason of small compensa-
tiOn or other sufficient cause, are in |
the judgment of the appointing pow
er necessarily so filled, nor the ap-
pOintment of such persons within the |
United States as are indispensable to !
the proper discharge of the duties of
certain positions, but who may not be
familiar with our language or legally |
capable of naturalization.
Eleventh-NO head of a department /
nor any subordinate officer of the gov
ernment, shall as such officer author /
iZe or permit, or assist in the levyiHg /.
of any assessment of money for polit- |
ical purposes, under the form of vol |
nntary contributions or otherwise, on /
any person employed under his con- /
troll, nor shall any such person pay
money SO assessed.
Twelfth-The advisory board shall |
at any time recommend to the Presi- /
dent such changes in these rules as it |
may consider necessary to secure the /
greater efficiency of the civil service. |
Thirteenth-FrOm these rules are |
excepted heads of departments, assist |
ant secretaries of departments, assist
ant attorney generals, and first assist |
ant pOstmasters, solicitor general, So |
licitor of the treasury, naval solicitor, !
solicitor of internal revenue, exami- /
ner of claims in the State department, /
treasurer Of the United States, regis /
ter of the treasury, judges Of United /
States courts, district attorneys, pri- /
vate secretaries of tue President, en-
bassadors and other public ministers,
uperintendents of the coast survey, F..
director of the mint, governors of ter
special commissioners, speci- /
al annual visiting and examining /.
boards, perrons appointed to positions I.
without compensation for services, /
agents, and bearers of dis :
patches,