RULE XVII.

1. Every original appointment or employment in said classified service

shall be for the probationary period of six months, at the end of which

time, if the conduct and capacity of the person appointed have been

found satisfactory, the probationer shall be absolutely appointed or

employed, but otherwise be deemed out of the service.

2. Every officer under whom any probationer shall serve during any part

of the probation provided for by these rules shall carefully observe the

quality and value of the service rendered by such probationer, and shall

report to the proper appointing officer, in writing, the facts observed

by him, showing the character and qualifications of such probationer and

of the service performed by him; and such reports shall be preserved on

file.

3. Every false statement knowingly made by any person in his application

for examination and every connivance by him at any false statement made

in any certificate which may accompany his application shall be regarded

as good cause for the removal or discharge of such person during his

probation.

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