The evening times., 1899-10-28
A TRANSFER OF CLERKS.
The Civil Service Commission Inves-
tiEaten o COMPLAINT.

There was received at the Offices of the
plant of an alleged violation of the Civil
Service law in the transfer of a clerk from
the Census Office to the stationery division
of the Department of the Interior. The al
legation was made that the clerk had been
transferred without warrant of law from a
position without the classified civil service
to position within that service.
The Civil Service Commission, it was
said, made enquiry into the facts and found
that the clerk who had been the cause oil
the complaint was borne upon the payroll
of the Census Office and not upon that OF
detailed by one of the officers Of the Gem
sus 10 the stationery division of the Inte-
rior for the sake of convenience, as the
census stationery is drawn from that diyi-
sion.
Rule X of the Civil Service Acts and
Rules, in the matter of transfers. prescribes
that: Within that part Of the Civil Service
of the United States which has been, or may
be hereafter classified under the civil SER
vice act, transfers shall be governed as fol-
lows:
/ Il. A person in any department or Office
may be transferred within the same de-
partment or office and the same branch of
the service upon any test Of fitness, not
disapproved by the Commission. which may
be determined upon by the appointing Off
Ger. subject to the limitations of the pro-
visos Of section 2 of this rule.
''2. A person who has received absolute
appointment may be transferred without
examination from ienartmpnf office
or branch of the service upon requisition
and consent of the proper officers and the
certificate of the Commission: Provided,
that no transfer shall be made of a per-
son within the same department or Office
and the same branch of the service, or TO a
position within the same department or
Office and the same branch of the service,
OF to a position in another department, Of
flee, or branch of the service, II from orig
inal entrance to such position such person
is barred by the age limitations prescribed
therefor, or by the provisions regulating
apportionment, but the provisions in rela-
tion to apportionment shall be waived upon
the certificate Of the appointing officer that
the transfer is required in the interests of
good administration And provided fur
ther, that transfers shall not be made with
out examination. provided by the Commits
sion, to a position for original entrance
sion. there is required by these rules an
examination involving essential tests diff
ferent from or higher than those involved
in the examination required for original
entrance to the position from which trans
fer is proposed; but person employed in
any grade shall not because of such en-
ployment be barred from the open COM
petitive examination provided for original
entrance to any other grade"
1t is laid down in the rule that transfer
shall not be made from position not class
flied under the Civil Service Act, to
classified position: Provided, that per-
son who. by promotion or transfer from
classified position. has entered a position.
appointment to which is made by the Pres
ident by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, and has served continuously
therein from the date Of said promotion
or transfer, may be transferred from said
Presidential appointment to the position
from which he was so transferred or to
any position to which transfer could be
made therefrom.'