When temperamental qualities determine the usefulness of employees, as in the case of teachers in a reform school, or nurses in an institution, "temperamental aptitude" shall be rated under "quality."

2d. Quantity-meaning amount of work done.

3d. Discipline-including treatment of the public, treatment of fellow employees, sobriety, and obedience to rules.

4th. Attendance-including absence and punctuality.

Quality, quantity, and discipline shall be rated on a percentage

Eighty-five (85%) per cent is arbitrarily taken by the Civil Service Commission as the marking for an average employee doing thoroughly satisfactory work.

The records for attendance shall be a statement of the number of times tardy, the number of days or parts of days absent.

Where markings above 90 or below 70 are reported, an explanation should accompany, stating briefly the reason therefor. The Civil Service Commission retains the right to investigate such ratings before entering it upon its records.

If the net efficiency of any employee falls below 70 for any one month, the Secretary of the Commission may file a charge for inefficiency against such employee with the Civil Service Commission. If such charge is filed, it shall be the duty of the Civil Service Commission to try the said employee for inefficiency. If, after such trial, it shall find the rating to be just, the Civil Service Commission shall enter judgment, removing the said employee from the Civil Service of the State of California, and his name shall be stricken from the list of eligibles.

In case the net efficiency of any employee shall fall below 80 continuously for three months, the Commission may reduce the salary or grade of such employee.

The efficiency records of any office or department shall be made upon a letter-size form, at the left of which shall be a column for the names of the employees in the said office or department arranged alphabetically. In the first column to the right of the names shall be written the name of the position; in the second column the salary paid; in the third column shall be rated the attendance, and it shall be in a double subcolumn, in the first subcolumn of which shall be recorded the number of times tardy, and in the second subcolumn shall be recorded the number of days absent; in the fourth column shall be rated discipline; in the fifth column shall be rated quality of work; in the sixth column shall be rated the quantity of work; and three and one-half inch columns shall be left at the extreme right for the use of the Civil Service Commission.

The appointing power shall require the immediate supervisor of the persons whose efficiency records are being made up to certify to the appointing power, the record for the quantity and quality of work, discipline and attendance.

From the record thus transmitted to the appointing power or its authorized agent by the said immediate supervisor, the appointing power or its authorized agent shall cause to be made the entries in the efficiency records to be submitted to the Civil Service Commission. A copy of said record shall be kept in the office of the appointing power.

RULE 12. LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

Upon application to the Civil Service Commission, a civil service appointee may be granted a leave of absence for a period of more than one month and not to exceed six months without prejudice to his status, provided such application shall have first been approved by the appointing power in the department in which the applicant is employed. The appointing power may grant a leave of absence to a civil service employee for thirty days or less without first securing the approval of the Civil Service Commission.

1. Absence from duty without leave for any time will be considered good cause for dismissal.

§ 2. Absence from duty without leave for ten consecutive days. shall be deemed a resignation from the service by the absentee, and upon the report of such absence by the appointing power to the Civil Service Commission the absentee shall be removed from the service of the State and the fact of removal shall be entered in the official roster; provided, that if at any time within thirty days the person so absenting himself shall make satisfactory explanation to the Civil Service Commission of the cause of his absence, he shall be restored to his position.

RULE 14. REDUCTION IN FORCE.

Whenever for lack of work, or funds, or for purposes of retrenchment, or other causes, it becomes necessary to reduce the number of employees in a given class, the employees in that class shall be laid off according to their records of efficiency as established under the Rules and Regulations of the Civil Service Commission, the least efficient to be laid off first.

Any employee who has been laid off and has received not less than eighty per cent on his efficiency record shall be restored to the eligible register according to his original examination; or, in case the employee was a permanent employee or a probationer on November 14, 1913, then his eligibility shall be rated according to the length of employ ment, the oldest employees in point of service being rated highest. The period of eligibility, in all cases, shall begin to run from the date of restoration to the eligible register.

If no efficiency records have been required at the time of the reduction in force, lay-offs may be made in the discretion of the appointing

power, provided that permanent employees shall not be laid off while work is being performed by probationers or temporary employees of a character for which the permanent employee is fitted.

If efficiency records have been required and the employee has received less than eighty per cent therein, he shall not be restored to the eligibility register.

Preference shall always be given to the oldest employees in length of service in recertification after lay-offs.

RULE 15. TRANSFER.

Transfers, as provided by section 13 of the Civil Service Act, may be made by the appointing power only with the previous consent of the Civil Service Commission.

Persons holding positions in the service of the State on August 15, 1913, who are under the protection of the Civil Service Law, may be assigned to any other positions which they are capable of filling, provided such transfer shall be recommended by the appointing power and approved by the Civil Service Commission. Eligibles appointed after examination to fill a position in a given class may not be transferred to positions in another class.

Any person may within one year be reinstated to any position from which he has been separated without fault or delinquency on his part upon petition to and favorable action by the Civil Service Commission.

RULE 17. PROMOTION.

§ 1. Method of Promotion.--Vacancies in positions, unless filled by reinstatement or transfer, shall be filled as far as practicable by promotion from among persons holding positions in the next lower grade of the department, office or institution in which the vacancy exists. An increase of salary beyond the grade of the position occupied shall be deemed a promotion.

Promotion shall be based upon merit determined by competitive examination and by the superior qualifications of the person promoted, as shown by his record of efficiency. Applicants for promotional examination shall register in the office of the Commission at least three days before the date fixed for the examination.

The recommendation of the appointing power, with reasons for the recommendation, shall be a factor in all promotional examinations, and shall be given a rating to be determined by the Commission upon the announcement of the examination.

Whenever a vacancy is to be filled by promotion, and the number of applicants in the next lower grade who present themselves for examination are so few that in the judgment of the Commission the good of the public service requires that such promotion shall be open to all employees in the lower grade of that class, it shall so declare and notify all employees in such lower grades that such examination will

be held and of their eligibility, and shall proceed to hold an original competitive examination to such positions.

RULE 18. TRIALS AND DISMISSALS.

§ 1. Charges under section 14 of the Civil Service Act may be made by the appointing power or its representative, the Civil Service Commission or its representative, or any citizens.

Such charges shall be tried either by the appointing power of the Civil Service Commission, and shall be instituted by serving upon the defendant a written complaint setting forth the grounds for removal with such particularity as shall enable the defendant to understand clearly the charges made against him, and filing with the Civil Service Commission a copy thereof.

Within ten days after service upon him of the complaint, the defendant shall file with the Commission and furnish to the prosecutor a written answer thereto.

The appointing power, in case the charges are to be heard by it, shall then notify the defendant and the Civil Service Commission of the time and place of hearing of said charges, and in case the Civil Service Commission shall hear said charges, it shall notify the defendant and the prosecutor of the time and place of hearing said charges. The time of hearing shall not be less than five nor more than ten days from the service upon the prosecutor of the answer of the defendant.

The defendant at such hearing shall have opportunity to present whatever competent evidence he may desire in his own defense and shall have the right to be represented by counsel. Failure to file an answer within the time allowed shall be construed as an admission of the truth of the charges by the defendant, and judgment of removal shall be entered forthwith and filed with or by the Commission. Either the appointing power or the Commission may transfer charges. to the other for action or investigation.

§ 2. The hearing of charges may be by the Commission, any Commissioner, chief examiner or any other agent of the Commission as it may direct, or the appointing power.

§ 3. Any Civil Service appointee dismissed from employment after trial shall be removed forthwith from all eligible lists and shall not be eligible for examination thereafter without the consent of the Commission. Any eligible or appointee convicted of a felony shall be dismissed from the service of the State and shall have his name stricken from all eligible registers.

RULE 19. REGULAR AND SPECIAL MEETINGS. Regular meetings shall be held on the first Tuesday of every month in the office of the Commission at the State Capitol, Sacramento, at 9 o'clock A. M.

Special meetings may be called at any time by the President or by at a majority of the Commissioners, provided forty-eight hours' notice

of such special meeting be given to all members of the Commission. A notice of each special meeting shall state the business for which said meeting is called, but any other business may be transacted at such meeting. Ordinary parliamentary rules shall govern the deliberations of the Civil Service Commission.

RULE 20. PUBLIC INSPECTION.

All the books, records, answers and papers pertaining to examinations or other proceeding shall be open to the inspection of any citizen. RULE 21. AMENDMENTS TO RULES.

The rules of the Civil Service Commission may be amended at any meeting.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF NEW BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.

Plan of Formation.-Associations may be formed on either of the three following plans:

First.-Mutual associations in the old form with withdrawable stock, both installment and full paid.

Second.-Mutual associations under section 648a of the Civil Code with withdrawable membership shares, both installment and full paid, having a paid-up or ultimate matured installment value of $100 or $200 per share, with all the rights, powers and privileges, and subject to all the restrictions and liabilities provided for shares of authorized capital stock of similar classes.

Third. Associations with a guarantee capital, and also authorized to issue membership shares or certificates, both installment and full paid, as provided for in section 648a of the Civil Code.

Articles of Incorporation.-The ordinary forms of articles of incorporation may be used, but the second, sixth and seventh subdivisions of the articles must be practically in the following forms, depending upon the plan of organization.

Statement of Purposes.-The purposes for which formed, irrespective of the style of incorporation, should conform to the following as regards the "second" subdivision:

"Second: The purposes for which it is formed are: To encourage industry, frugality, home-building and savings among its shareholders, members and others; the accumulation of savings; the loaning to its shareholders, members and others of the money or funds so accumulated, with the profits and earnings thereon, and the repayment to each of his savings and profits whenever they have accumulated to the full par value of the shares or certificates, or at any time when he shall desire the same or when the corporation shall desire to repay the same, in the manner provided by law or as may be provided in the by-laws; and it is also formed for all the purposes and with all the