1. The Civil Service Commission shall have authority to appoint the
following-named boards of civil-service examiners:
_The central board_.--This board shall be composed of seven
members, who shall be detailed from the Departments in which they may
be serving at the time of appointment for continuous service at the
office of the Civil Service Commission. Under the supervision of the
Commission, the central board shall examine and mark the papers of all
examinations for entrance to the departmental service, and also such
of the papers of examinations for entrance to either the customs or
the postal service as shall be submitted to it by the Commission. The
Commission shall have authority to require any customs or postal board
to send the papers of any examination conducted by said board to be
examined and marked by the central board. The persons composing this
board shall be in the departmental service.
_Special boards_.--These boards shall mark the papers of special
examinations for the classified departmental service, and shall be
composed of persons in the public service.
_Supplementary boards_.--These boards shall mark the papers of
supplementary examinations for the classified departmental service, and
shall be composed of persons in the public service.
_Local departmental boards_.--These boards shall be organized at
one or more places in each State and Territory where examinations for
the departmental service are to be held, and shall each be composed of
persons in the public service residing in the State or Territory in
which the board is to act.
_Customs boards_.--One for each classified customs district, to be
composed of persons in the customs service in the district for which
the board is to act. These boards shall conduct examinations for
entrance to and promotion in the classified customs service.
_Postal boards_.--One for each classified post-office, to be
composed of persons in the postal service at the post-office for which
said board is to act. These boards shall conduct examinations for
entrance to and promotions in the postal service.
2. No person shall be appointed a member of any board of examiners named
herein until after consultation by the Civil Service Commission with the
head of the Department or office in which the person whom it desires to
appoint is serving.
3. It shall be the duty of the head of any classified customs office or
classified post-office to promptly inform the Civil Service Commission,
in writing, of the removal or resignation from the public service, or
of the death, of any member of a board of examiners appointed from his
office; and upon request of the Commission such officer shall state to
the Commission which of the persons employed in his office he regards as
most competent to fill the vacancy thus occasioned, or any vacancy which
may otherwise occur; and in making this statement the officer shall
mention generally the qualifications of each of the persons named
therein by him.
4. The duties of a member of a special, supplementary, local,
departmental, customs, or postal board of examiners shall be regarded as
a part of the public duties of such examiner, and each examiner shall be
allowed time during office hours to perform the duties required of him.
5. The Civil Service Commission shall have authority to adopt
regulations which shall (1) prescribe the manner of organizing the
several boards of civil-service examiners herein named, (2) more
particularly state the powers of each of said boards, and (3)
specifically define the duties of the members thereof.
6. The Civil Service Commission shall have authority to change at any
time the membership of any of the above-named boards of civil-service
examiners.
Approved, January 15, 1887.