Register of XX. To keep a record of the candidates for examination, such record Candidates. to show the name, age, place of birth, and residence of each candidate, and the result of his examination, mentioning the particular branch of the Civil Service (if any) for which any candidate passing the examination shall, in the opinion of the examiners, have shown any special aptitude. Certificates XXI. To grant certificates of qualification to candidates whose of qualifica examination as to fitness, and whose testimonials as to moral character, shall have been found satisfactory. tion. Copies of minutes for Executive Council. Conditions of examination. Age of candidates. Notice of meetings. Times of meeting. Place of meeting. Register of candidates found qualified. Filling vacancies among clerks. Only certified candi it can XXII. To cause to be transmitted to the clerk of the Executive Council, with all convenient speed, copies of the minutes of the proceedings of Board, at each sitting thereof, such copies to be certified by the chairman. XXIII. No person shall be admitted to examination except on application in his own handwriting, such application to set forth his age, his place of birth, his place of residence, and to be otherwise in accordance with any orders or regulations framed and published by the Board of Examiners for the Civil Service. XXIV. No person shall be competent for examination who shall be under sixteen years of age. XXV. Notice of the monthly meetings for examination of candidates, and of the regulations to be observed by such candidates, shall be published in such manner as may be determined by the Board. XXVI. The first meeting of the Board of Examiners for the Civil Service shall take place at noon on the fourth Monday after the passing of this Act, and thereafter on the fourth Monday of each month, commencing their proceedings at the hour of ten in the forenoon. XXVII. All meetings of the Board of Examiners shall be held at the office of the Provincial Secretary. XXVIII. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Executive Council to file the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Examiners for the Civil Service, and to keep a registry of the name and residence of each candidate to whom a certificate of qualification has been granted, with the date of such certificate. Appointments to Office and Salaries of Clerks. XXIX. Whenever a vacancy through death, resignation, removal, or promotion shall occur in any of the classes of clerks of the departments included in Schedule A., it shall be the duty of the head of the department in which the vacancy occurs to select for promotion to such vacancy the most suitable person from such of the clerks in the said department as shall fill situations of lower rank or emolument than that attached to such vacant clerkship; and in the event of such head of department being unable under this provision to fill such vacancy, or whenever the increased business of such department shall require augmentation of the staff, application in writing shall be made by the head of such department to the Executive Council, and the clerk of the Executive Council shall bring the said application under the notice of the Committee of Council at the next meeting thereof. XXX. No appointment to any office or clerkship in any of the departments included in Schedule A. shall be made, except from among appointed. those candidates who having passed their examination shall be registered by the Board of Examiners as proper persons to be employed in the Civil Service of Canada, except under the next section. promotion of XXXI. Nothing in this Act shall prevent the promotion in his own Act not to department, or the appointment to any other office or situation in the prevent the public service, of any officer, clerk, or other person employed in any of any officer. the departments in Schedule A. at the time of the passing of this Act. fourth-class XXXII. Persons selected from among those registered by the Board Candidates of Examiners as proper persons to be employed in the Civil Service of to enter as Canada, and appointed under the provisions of this Act, shall enter the clerks. said service as fourth-class or probationary clerks. XXXIII. Fourth-class cierks shall receive from the date of their Salary. appointment a salary at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five pounds per annum. XXXIV. Fourth-class clerks after two years' service, if deemed Promotion. qualified, may be promoted to the third class. XXXV. Third-class clerks shall commence at a salary of one hundred Third-class and fifty pounds per annum, with an annual increase of ten pounds till clerks salary. the maximum in that class of two hundred pounds per annum be attained. XXXVI. Third-class clerks, after six years' service as such, if Promotion. deemed qualified, may be promoted to the second class. clerks' XXXVII. Second-class clerks shall commence at a salary of two Second-class hundred and twenty-five pounds per annum, with an annual increase of salary. ten pounds, until the maximum of two hundred and seventy-five pounds in that class be attained. XXXVIII. Second-class clerks, after six years' service as such, if Promotion. deemed qualified, may be promoted to the rank of first-class clerks. clerks' XXXIX. First-class clerks shall commence at a salary of three First-class hundred pounds per annum, with an annual increase of ten pounds per salary. annum, until the maximum of three hundred and fifty pounds be attained. among XL. Whenever any one of the offices included in Schedule B., ex- Filling clusive of landing waiters and railway mail clerks, shall be vacant, it vacancies shall be the duty of the head of the department first to give due con- officers. sideration to the claims of all the officers and of the clerks of the first, second, and third classes in such department, with the view to selecting the most suitable person to fill such vacancy; and in the event of the head of any department included in Schedule A. being unable to select under the foregoing provisions a person completely fitted to fill any vacancy which may occur in such department, then it shall be the duty of such head of department to report such vacancy to the Governor in Council, in order that such vacancy may if possible be filled from. amongst the officers and first, second, and third class clerks of the other departments included in Schedule A. prevent dis XLI. Nothing herein contained shall be held to limit the power of Act not to the Governor to direct the dismissal, suspension, or reduction in rank missal, &c. or class of any officer, clerk, or other person employed in any of the departments of Schedule A. ment of XLII. No extra clerk shall be employed in any department included Employin Schedule A., except under Order in Council, unless for a period not extra clerks exceeding one month, or to fill a temporary vacancy caused by the illness or necessary absence of an officer or clerk. limited. Certain pro visions of XLIII. Provided always, that such of the foregoing provisions as make it necessary that any vacancy in the offices in Schedule B. be the Act not filled from among the officers and clerks in the same or any other to affect cerdepartment, shall not apply to the Survey Branch of the Crown Lands tain offices. Department, or to the engineer, or any assistant engineer, architect, or draughtsman in the Public Works Department, or to the office of bookkeeper; but any vacancy in the said offices may be filled as heretofore, if the head of the department shall not think any officer or clerk properly qualified to fill the same. SCHEDULE A. Referred to in Section I. 1. Executive Council Office. 2. Provincial Secretary's Office. 3. Inspector General's Department, including the Customs and all other offices connected therewith. 4. Receiver General's Department. 5. Postmaster General's Department, and all offices connected therewith to which fixed annual salaries are attached. 6. Crown Lands Department. 7. Public Works Department. 8. Bureau of Agriculture and Statistics. Inspector-General's Department-continued. Sea Ports (Quebec and Montreal). Ports where Revenue collected Ports where Revenue collected is Collector Surveyor Chief Clerk Appraiser 750 750 650 Chief Land- 300 300 350 250 ing Waiter. Landing Waiters Auditor of Public Accounts Book-keeper £ 600 400 |