The theory of the statute

Regulating the exercise of power of appointment given by the Consti-

tution...

Opinions of the attorney-general..

Political assessments...

Extension of the system to other States..

Review of the Work......

APPENDICES.

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11

12

14

16

19

22

27

29

31

31

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32

APPENDIX A:

Chief examiner's report. . .

APPENDIX B:

35

Amendments to rules and schedules, and statistics of examinations.... 59

Changes of distribution among the schedules under rule 5........

Additions to the schedules....

Exceptions from the restrictions as to residence and citizenship imposed

by rule 35...

Regulations for the examination of health officers.

Provisional rule concerning the employment of persons in State prisons 60

List of appointments Schedule B..

Statistical summary of persons admitted to competitive examination.

Distribution in the schedules of the employes in each department

Additions to the classified service..

Correspondence..

APPENDIX C:

Page.

65

Letters to the judiciary committee of the Assembly; suggestions in ref-

erence to bill before said committee....

Letters to Z. R. Brockway, Sup't Elmira reformatory; relative to ap-

pointments in the reformatory..

Letter to Governor Cleveland relative to age of applicants....

Letter from E. Henry Lacombe, asst. corporation counsel, New York

city, relative to appointment of employes in the New York city

courts..

Reply to E. Henry Lacombe.

69

Circular note of the commission to the chief judges of the city of New

York..

Reply of Chief Judge Daly..

Reply of Chief Judge Sedgwick...

74

Letter to James C. Carter, president bar association, New York city,

asking assistance of the association in the examination of court em-
ployes

Circular letter to mayors..

Letter to the attorney-general, relative to the increase of salaries of clerks
in his department...

Letter to the comptroller, relative to appointments made.

Letter to the State engineer and surveyor, relative to placing certain
positions in his department in schedule B.

Reply of State engineer and surveyor...

Letter to Dr. Stephen Smith, State commissioner in lunacy, relative to
appointment as examiner...

Letter to Dr. S. O. Vanderpoel, relative to the examination of health offi-

cers..

Letter from Dr. John P. Gray, relative to the examination of asst. phy-
sicians...

Circular note to principals of normal schools and others.

Answers to circular letter by William L. Bostwick, F. B. Palmer, E. P.

Waterbury, T. L. Caldwell, J. H. Hoose, William J. Milne, E. A.

Sheldon, Cady Staley, Francis B. Palmer and George Wm. Curtis... 86

APPENDIX D:

Attorney-general's opinions.

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Right of women to compete..

98

Board of excise, New York city.

100

Application of the Civil Service act to the city of Buffalo..