APPENDIX 10. FINANCIAL STATEMENT.* From January 1, 1885, to November 15, 1885. Amount of appropriation for 1885..... Paid stenographer's fees. $1,500 00 $468 95 100 00 91 00 25.00 11 40 Paid for two dozen boxes for filing papers.. 7 20 8 03 711 58 Balance to credit of Commission, November 15, 1885... $788 42 Outstanding bills for printing, and expenses likely to be incurred for balance of year (estimated) $225. APPENDIX 11. Showing the amendments to the Civil Service regulations of Brooklyn, made during the past year, the amended regulations or regulations amended in part appearing in italics. REGULATION IX. Applications of competitors for positions included in Schedule B must be addressed to the "Secretary of the Civil Service Commission, City Hall, Brooklyn, N. Y.," and must be accompanied by the following papers: FIRST. The affidavit of the applicant that he is a citizen of the United States, giving his address and stating the place, street and number of his residence for the last preceding year; his age and place of birth; the extent, place and nature of his education, and also of his business training and experience, and whether he has ever been in official service before, and if so, when and where; and also whether he were honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States-in such case the discharge or a duly authenticated copy thereof to be submitted with the application. *The assistant secretary to the mayor was assigned to discharge the further duties of secretary to the Commission. His salary as such was paid from the salary appropriation of the mayor's office, and does not appear in this financial statement. The Commission have met in the mayor's office throughout the year, thereby saving the item of office rent, and through the courtesy of the board of education their rooms have been used by the commission for the examinations, as in the year 1884. SECOND. The certificates of not less than three, or more than five reputable citizens of Brooklyn each certifying that he individually has been personally acquainted with the applicant for at least one year, and believes him to be of good moral character, of temperate and industrious habits, and in all respects fit for the service he wishes to enter, and that such citizen is willing that his certificate should be published for public information. Certificates in favor of the applicant of present or former employers doing business or residing out of the city, will be received on the same basis as certificates of citizens of Brooklyn. In case the applicant reside out of Brooklyn, two of the citizens making such certificates may be residents of the applicant's place of residence. THIRD. The certificate of a practicing physician in good standing, that he has examined the applicant and found him free from any disease or physical defect that would impair his ability to render good and faithful service to the city. REGULATION XII. All applicants for appointment in the police department as patrolmen, doormen and bridge-keepers, that is to say, in Schedule B, Class 8, Grade A, must have the following qualifications: First. They must have been citizens of the United States, and residents of Brooklyn, at least four years next prior to the date of their application. Second. They must not be less than twenty-six, or more than thirty years of age. Third. They must not be less than five feet eight inches, or more than six feet three inches in height, and their weight and chest measurement shall be certified by the department surgeons to conform to height as per following table: This regulation shall not contravene the provisions of the statute, as stated in Regulation XXII, with relation to soldiers and sailors of the late war honorably discharged. REGULATION XIV. Applicants for the positions included in Schedule B, Classes 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, as shown in Appendix E, must, in addition to the requirements hereinbefore mentioned, present satisfactory evidence, as follows: First. If the position to be filled be that of sanitary inspector or assistant sanitary inspector (Class 12), or vaccinator (Class 11), that the applicant is duly authorized by the laws of the State of New York to practice medicine and surgery. Second. If the position to be filled be that of chemist (Class 13), that the applicant has received the degree of bachelor of sciences, or its equivalent, from some institution duly authorized by law to confer such degree. Third. If the position to be filled be that of veterinary surgeon (Class 14), or veterinary inspector (Class 15), that the applicant has received the degree of doctor of veterinary surgery, or its equivalent from some institution duly authorized by law to confer such degree. REGULATION XXI. Priority of date in examination will give no advantage; the names of the three eligible persons standing highest will be certified for appointment without regard to dates when examined. No person on an eligible list shall be certified for appointment more than three times to the same appointing officer, except at the latter's request; nor shall the name of any person remain on an eligible list more than two years from the date of the original examination. Upon receiving a temporary appointment or an appointment to position temporary in character, the candidate's name shall be, during the time he holds such appointment, suspended from the eligible list from which he was appointed. Where the employment of a person in any grade of Schedule B is terminated because the work upon which he is engaged is suspended, and the head of the department so certifies to the Commission, and further certifies that such person has faithfully and satisfactorily performed the duties of his position during his employment (which certificate the head of the department shall give in proper cases), then the person may thereafter, upon the certificate of the Civil Service Commission, be re-appointed by the head of such depart ment to the position in which he was so formerly employed, and if such person had been originally appointed from an eligible list then he shall thereupon resume upon the eligible list from which he was appointed the position thereon to which his original marking or rating entitled him, and may he thereafter certified for appointment in all respects as if he had been placed upon such eligible list on the date of such former termination of his employment, the two years provided in Regulation XVII, and in this regulation not to be deemed to begin until such date. Upon receiving a permanent appointment to a position permanent in its character, the candidate's name shall be stricken from the eligible list from which he was appointed. REGULATION XXXV. Promotion shall not take place from one grade to a higher grade in the following classes of Schedule B, except upon merit and a competitive examination, which examination may, in the discretion of the appointing officer, be conducted by appropriate subordinates in his department, to be designated by him, and the competition may, in the discretion of the appointing officer, be limited to the persons in the grade next below the grade to which the promotion is to be made; provided, however, that promotion to Class 8, Grade D (police captains) may be made from Grade C (police sergeants) or from detectives of five years' continuous service as such in the department. Sergeants who may have been in command of precincts or subprecincts for not less than three months during the year next preceding the date on which the vacancy to be filled was created, and who have demonstrated their ability to command, may, in the discretion of the commissioner, be promoted without competitive examination. In such case, the forms and procedure of examinations, the preparation of eligible lists and the certifying of names therefrom by the examiners shall as nearly as practicable be similar to those employed by the Commission in similar cases. Class 1-Clerical, book-keeping and like positions. Class 8 Uniformed police force. Class 9 Uniformed fire force. In determining such merit and upon such competitive examination for promotion, especial weight shall be given by the commission or examiners, so far as is practicable, to the merit of the work done by the applicant in the position from which he seeks promotion, and in weighing such merit, length of service may be considered. Such merit shall be determined from the records and papers of the office or position in which he has been employed, so far as they show his diligence, punctuality, steadiness, and other merit; and from his work in such office or position so far as it remains or can be inspected; and from such other evidence of such merit as the Commission or examiners may deem it proper to consider. Except as herein otherwise provided or limited, promotions from one grade to another grade in any other class of Schedule B rest with the appointing office, who shall make the promotions upon the basis of merit; of which he shall be sole judge, from his knowledge of the applicants in the positions in which they may have theretofore served, excepting however, that the appointing officer may, if he please, open the promotion to competitive examination under the direction of the Commission. In the latter case competitive examination for promotion, unless otherwise directed by the appointing officer, shall be limited to the persons in the grade next below the grade to which the promotion is to be made. Excepting in respect to this limitation, the same rules heretofore prescribed for competitive examinations, for eligible list and for appointments therefrom in Schedule B shall apply to competitive examinations for promotions. CIRCULAR LETTER TO MAYORS AND REPLIES The Honorable THERETO. STATE OF NEW YORK: OFFICE OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Mayor of the City of SIR-The Civil Service Act makes it the duty of this Commission to set forth in its reports the character and practical effects of all civil service examinations in cities, together with its views as to the improvement and extension of the same. In order that the Commission, in its next annual report on January 1st, 1886, may be enabled to discharge this duty so far as your city is concerned, your honor is respectfully requested to report the character and practical effects of the examinations held under the provisions of the Civil Service Act to fill vacancies in the service of your city, and to add such suggestions as you may approve for the more effectual accomplishment of the purposes of the act. You are further respectfully requested to have prepared and forwarded a general report of the operations of the Civil Service Act, as respects the service of your city, and it is especially desired that such report among other things should contain the following statistical information brought down to this date: 1. The whole number of persons in the classified service of your city. 2. The whole number of persons examined during the year, (a) by competitive examination, b) by non-competitive examination. 3. The number of persons who have passed competitive examinations and have been entered on eligible lists. 4. The number of persons who have passed in non-competitive examinations. 5. The number of appointments, removals and promotions made. 6. Any increase or diminution of the number of persons employed in the civil service of your city. |