Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-28

elsewhere, and secure accuracy, uniformi
ty and justice in all their proceedings
which shall be at all times open to him
The chief examiner shall be entitled to re-
ceive salary at the rate of $3, 900 year
and he shall be paid his necessary travel
ing expenses incurred in the discharge o,
his duty. The commission shall have
secretary to be appointed by the presi
dent who shall receive salary o.
$1,000 per annum. It may, when neces
sary, employ stenographer and messen
ger, who shall be paid when employed
the former at the rate of $1,000 yeal
and the latter at the rate of $500 q year
The commissioner shall at Washington and
| in one or more places in each state and
territory where examinations are to take
place. designate and select a suitable mum
Der of persons, not less than three, in the
official service of the United States, resid
ing in said state or territory, after con.
sulting the head of the department OF
Office in which such persons serve, to be
| members of the board of examiners and
may at any other time substitute any
other person in said service living in such
territory in place of any one so selected.
Such board of examination to be so located
as to make it reasonably convenient and
inexpensive for applicants to attend be-
fore them, and where there are persons to
be examined in any state or territory the
examinations shall be held therein at least
twice each year. It shall be the duty of
the collector, postmaster and other officers
of the United States at any place outside
of the District of Columbia where exami-
nations are directed by the pEesident or by
said board to be held to allow a reason
able use of public buildings for holding
such examinations and in q ways facili-
tate same.
SECTION. That it shall be the duty of
the secretary of the interior 10 cause suit
able and convenient rooms and accommo-
dations to be assigned or provided, and to
be furnished, heated and lighted, at the
city of Washington for carrying on the
work of said commissioners and said ex-
aminers and to cause the necessary sta
tionery and other articles to be supplied
and the necessary printing to be done for
said commission.
SECT1oN-.That any of said commission
ers, examiners, copyists or messengers, or
any person in the public service who
wilfully and corruptly, by himself or
in cooperation with one or more
other persons, shall defeat, deceive or
obstruct any person in respect to his OF
her right to examination according to any
such rules or regulations, or who shall will
fully, corruptly and falsely mark, grade,
estimate or report upon the examination
or proper standing of any person exam
ined hereunder, or aid in so doing, or who
shall wilfully and corruptly make any
false representations concerning the
same or concerning the person ex-
aminsd, or who shall wilfully and
corruptly furnish to any person any special
or secret information for the purpose of
either improving or injuring the prospects
of any person so examined or to be ex-
amined, being appointed, employed or
promoted, shall for each offense be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and upon con-
not less than 500, or by imprisonment
year, or by both such fine and Imprisonment
SECTION =. That within SIXTY days after
the passage If this act it shall be the duty
conformity as may be to the classification
of certain clerks now existing the 163d sec.
ton of the revised statutes.
clerks and persons employed by collectors,
naval officers, surveyors and appraisers, or
either of them being in the public service
and their respective Offices in each custom
district where the whole number of said
clerks and persons shall be altogether as
many as fifty, and thereafter from time
to time, on the direction of the president,
the secretary shall make the like classifca-
of ~,
so employed in connection with any said
Office or offices in any other custom dis
trict, and upon like request and for the
purposes of this act, said secretary shall
arrange in one Or more Of said classes
or of existing classes any other clerks
agents or persons employed under his de-
partment in any part of said district and
not now classified, and every such arrange
ment and classification upon being made
shall be reported to the president.
Second-Within said sixty days it shall
be the duty of the postmaster general in
general conformity to said 163d section
to separately arrange in classes the several
clerks and persons employed, or in the
public service, at each postofice or under
any postmaster of the United States where
the whole number of said clerks and per.
sons shall together amount to as many as
fifty, and thereafter from time to time
on direction of the president, it shall be
the duty of the postmastergeneral to ar.
range in like classes the clerks and persons
SO employed in the postal service in con.
nection with any other postofice, and
every such arrangement and Classification
| upon being made shall be reported to the
president.
Third-That from time to time said sec
retary, postmaster general and each of the
| heads of departments mentioned in section
15S of the revised statutes, and each head
of an Office shall, on direction of the presi.
dent, and for facilitating the execution ot
this act, respectively, revise any then ex.
isting classification or arrangement OF
those in their respective departments and
Offices, and shall for the purpose of exam.
| ination herein provided for, include in one
or more such classes so far as practicable
the subordinate places, clerss and officers
in the public service pertaining to theil
| respective departments not being classi
| fed for examination.
SECTION. After the expiration of si,
| months after the passage of this act nc
officer or clerk shall be appointed, and ne
person shall be employed to enter or ba
promoted in either of said classes now ex
listing or that may be arranged here, under
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