Property of the United States Govemment.

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

us CIVIL SERVICE ACT,

RULES,

AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

REVISION OF THE RULES OF APRIL 15, 1903,
WITH NOTES ON THE RULES BY THE COMMISSION,
AND LEGAL DECISIONS.

EDITION OF

NOVEMBER, 1906.

[THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE COMMISSION, OF WHICH TWENTY

TWO HAVE BEEN ISSUED, CAN BE FOUND AT

ALL PUBLIC LIBRARIES.]

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1906.

IV.-Boards of examiners....

XIV.-Testimony.......

Penal statutes...

Civil-service rules, with notes by the Commission, and legal decisions:

Promulgating order

Rule I.-Politics and religion...

II. Classification of the service

III.-Examinations..........

V.-Qualifications of applicants

VI.-Ratings and eligibility..

VII.-Certification....

VIII.-Temporary appointment.

IX.-Reinstatement

X.-Transfer

XI.-Promotion..

XII.-Removal

XIII.-Reports of changes

XV. Withholding salary

XVI.-Regulations

SCHEDULE A.-Classified positions excepted from examination

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Executive orders:

Veteran preference

Attempts of employees to influence legislation..

Instruction of applicants for examination

Examinations for office of the recorder of deeds at Washington....

Appointments for the performance of classified duties to be made in accord-

ance with the civil-service rules...

Permitting the classification of laborers in cities in which labor registers

exist

Positions on the Isthmus of Panama..

Admission of aliens to examinations and certification of ineligibles..

Labor regulations

Classification of the Executive civil service....

Regulations governing certain branches of the classified service outside of