If there be no subdivision covering the kind of labor required, or if the names in such subdivision be exhausted, the Labor Clerk shall certify from the subdivision covering unskilled labor, unless the officer making the requisition shall designate some other subdivision and there shall be names enough therein to comply with the requisition; in such case the certification shall be made from such subdivision.

From the number of persons so certified, the officer making the requisition shall select the number required and report to the Labor Clerk within ten days from the date of certification, the names, registration numbers and addresses of the persons so selected, provided, however, that whenever the officer who shall have made the requisition for a certain number shall employ a smaller number he shall not make the selection therefor from the whole number certified to him but only from that number of names standing first upon said list that would have been certified to him had the requisition stated the number of vacancies which he actually filled.

REGULATION 69.

Any persons not selected shall remain upon the registry, and any persons selected shall, if they so request, be restored to the registry in the order in which they originally stood thereon upon the termination of the employment unless the employment has terminated by reason of the failure to work, incompetence or physical or moral disqualifications of the employe. In the case of every employe, the Department of the City Service employing him shall forthwith report to the Labor Clerk the names and numbers of the persons employed, and upon the termination of the employment shall report, on a form to be prepared and furnished by the Civil Service Commissioners for that purpose, the date of such termination and the reason therefor, and the substance of such report shall be entered upon the registry against the name of such employe. No employe whose employment is terminated for the

reason of failure to work, incompetence or physical or moral disqualification shall be restored to the registry or be again eligible for registration until the expiration of a period of six months from the date of such termination, and then only upon furnishing to the Examiners satisfactory excuse for his failure to work and satisfactory evidence that incompetence or physical or moral disqualification for the employment for which he seeks to be registered does not exist.

REGULATION 70.

In case the Labor Clerk is at any time unable to fill a requisition, he shall certify the fact to the officer making the requisition, who shall then make the selection of the employes immediately required in such manner or under such regulations as the Civil Service Commissioners may from time to time prescribe.

Laborers so selected shall not be retained in employment for a longer time than one week, unless they shall present themselves at the Civil Service Labor Office for registration in the manner and under the conditions prescribed for those seeking employment as set forth in the special regulations in relation to the employment of Laborers.

REGULATION 71.

No laborer or other employe whose employment is classified in Schedule G shall be detailed to perform the duties appertaining to any position or be appointed or promoted to any position classified in either of the other schedules, except upon the conditions prescribed in the Civil Service Regulations for appointment or promotion to such position.

Aqueduct Commission.

REGULATION 72.

A special Board of Examiners shall be organized for the examination of applicants for employment by the Aqueduct Commission in Schedules D, F and G, in the classification appended to the

preceding Regulations. The said Board shall consist of two Civil Engineers, to be designated by the Aqueduct Commissioners and approved by the Mayor, the Civil Engineer of the Examining Board and Chief Examiner. The Chief Examiner shall be Chair

man.

A quorum for the conducting of any examination shall be two, of whom in all cases one shall be an engineer in the employ of the Aqueduct Commission and one a member of the regular Civil Service Examining Board, and the powers of this Board shall be the same as those given to the regular Examining Board by these Regulations.

It shall be the duty of such special Board of Examiners to conduct all examinations called for under this Regulation, except as herein otherwise provided, and to ascertain the fitness of candidates for the service of the Aqueduct Commission with regard to character, knowledge and ability for the branch of such service into which they seek to enter, and to determine the relative excellence or standing of the persons examined, and to certify the same as prescribed by these Regulations.

Application of competitors for positions in the Aqueduct Commission shall be made in the form to be prescribed by the Com

mission.

The general examination for admission to the places in Schedule D (being Part II of the classification appended to the preceding Regulations) shall be in writing, and on the following subjects: 1. Handwriting (as shown in examination papers).

2. Arithmetic, viz.: Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

3. Questions relating to the technical knowledge required for the position sought by the applicant.

4. Experience tending to qualify him for that position. In addition to this the health and physical vigor of the applicant shall be tested as hereinafter required.

The relative weight to be given to these several subjects in making up the average standing shall be as follows:

Those admitted to competition for the superior positions in Schedule D, Part I, shall be examined in writing on the following subjects:

1. The technical knowledge required for the position to be filled, and respecting which the examination is held.

2. Experience tending to qualify the applicant for that position. As part of the examination as to experience the special Examining Board shall make inquiries in writing of the persons with whom the applicant has studied, or by whom he has been employed, on the following subjects:

Efficiency and accuracy in his own work.

Character for maintaining discipline among, and getting good work from, his subordinates, and, when appropriate, anything else in his character or antecedents tending to show fitness for the position which he seeks.

The relative weight to be given to these subjects shall be as follows:

When competition may not be found practicable to meet an exigency for special work in the positions of Assistant Engineers, Instrumentmen, Draughtsmen, Superintendents and Inspectors, and the fact of the exigency shall be made to appear by the certificate of the Aqueduct Commission, it shall be in the power of the Supervisory Board to institute noncompetitive examinations to temporarily fill such positions; but no appointment so made shall hold longer than for a period of three months.

Upon the presentation to the Secretary of the following certificate by the President and Chief Engineer of the Aqueduct Commission, and upon the going into effect of this Regulation, all persons employed by the said Commission prior to the 7th day of September, 1886, and who shall be named in such certificate, shall be considered as regularly in the employ of the said Commission, but the said Commission may, in its discretion, require any of said persons to pass an open competitive examination in order to be continued in the service.

Certificate.

The undersigned, President and Chief Engineer of the Aqueduct Commissioners, do certify that the persons whose names are given in the annexed list were employed by said Commissioners after a careful examination into their qualifications for the positions respectively held by them; that we are satisfied, after the experience actually had of their character and conduct, that they are severally qualified for the positions specified in the said list and that, in our judgment, any further examination as to their qualifications is unnecessary.

Except as in this regulation otherwise provided the preceding Regulations shall relate and apply to all appointments made by or under the authority of the Aqueduct Commission.

REGULATION 73.

No amendment to these regulations shall take effect until it has been printed for distribution, and twice published in the City Record.