Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-16

inform the com mlBsloners OF The removal of
any examiner in their Offices, or OF his ina
bility or refusal 10 act. FIfth-There will
be three branches of the service classified
under the civil service act, excluding Ia
borers or workmen, or officers requiring
Senate confrmalion-those classified in the
departments al Washington; under any COL
lector, naval officer, surveyor or appraiser
in any customs district; under any post
master; classified customs service includes
the various districts where the officials are
as many as fifty. Sixth-There will be com
petitive examinations for testing applicants
the examinations to be practical and to re-
late principally TO what belongs 10 the
sphere of duties the candidate desires to
enter-slso competitive examinations to
test fitness for promotion. Seventh
Examinatiops CT candidates to be lin.
tied to orthogrsphy, penmansbip, copy
ing; the fundamental rules of arithme-
tic, fractions and percentage; interest, dis
couRt, elements OF bookkeeping and Sc
counts; elements Of the English language,
letter-writing, the proper construction of
sentences; elements of geography, history
and government of the United States. The
standing Of those examined will be graded
according to their proficiency in the branches
connected with the position applied for
none TO have certificate who grade below
sixty five per cent. For places in which
lower degree Of attainments will be sufficient
the examination may be limited to penman-
ship, copying, photography and the funda-
mental rules Of arithmetic. Higher grades
of examination and additional special sub
jects may be introduced, when special
branches of the service may require them.
Sixth-Religious and political opinions not
to be required TO be disclosed, nor any die
elimination 10 be made on such accounts;
such disclosures will be discountensnced.
Ninth-Applicanis for examination 10 fill up
blank for ms te be addressed as the nature Of the
service applied for shall require. Tenth
Every examining board must keep records,
file papers and make reports, which shall be
open TO the commissioners or those they ap-
point TO examine them. Eleventh-Appli-
cants must state on oath their name, resi-
dence, address, citizenship, age, birthplace,
health and physical capacity; whether they
have been in naval or military service; also
education and other reasonable information,
including the number of members of their
family 10 the public service, and where. The
candidate must be able to assert thai he is
v,of IisnnaltHaJ for g
drinking intoxicating liquor to excess.
Twelfth-Certifcates must be given by can
didates as to character, health, physical and
mental capacity. Applicants must not be
under sixteen or over thirty five for the
postal service; eighteen to forty-five fer the
customs or departmental service, except for
clerk or messenger none shall be examined
who is under twenty-one; for soldiers and
sailors who served 10 the last war this rule may
be relaxed. Thirteenth-Refers to times and
to the grading and registering of those who
have been examined. Observation-Disclosures
certificates of grading to be given examined
candidates. Sixteenth-When any officer
having appointing power shall request it,
four names from those grading highest on
the register of his branch of service-regard
being had TO proportion OF States and Terri
tories-shall be certified to him. Where not
necessary, the four names may be OF either
or both sexes. Seventeenth-Examined per-
sons when appointed shall serve six months
on probation, when, if Satisfaction is given
by them, the appointment shall be made
absolute. Officers under whom probationers,
serve must report as to their efficiency, etc.
Ii false statements are made by candidates
or contained in their certificates, they may
be removed during probation. Eighteenth
Heads of departments must report ep-
discharges and deaths OF
those under them. Nineteenth-The follow
ing do not require examination: The chiefs
confidential clerk or secretary, collectors and
postm asters' cashiers, superintendent of
postal money orders, custodians of money
who have given bond, employees in
the secret service, translators, Interpreters,
photographers, PROFESSIONALISM, chief clerks,
superintendent and chiefs of divisions, but
these latter, if transferred TO places requiring
examination, must be examined. Twentieth
Refers to appointments when there are no
Examined candidates ready. Twenty-firet-
The commission to draw up regulations.
Violation Of these rules, or of the fourteenth
section Of the political assessment act, will
be good cause for removal.