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.

promotion of

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.

fourth-class

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.

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 clerks ten pounds, until the maximum of two hundred and seventy-five pounds in that class be attained.

salary.

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 Employ in Schedule A., except under "Order in Council, unless for a period not extra clerks limited. exceeding one month, or to fill a temporary vacancy caused by the illness or necessary absence of an officer or clerk.

visions of

XLIII. Provided always, that such of the foregoing provisions as Certain promake 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.

SCHEDULE B.

Referred to in Section V.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OFFICE.

Clerk of Executive Council

Confidential Clerk

PROVINCIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE.

Assistant Provincial Secretary, Lower Canada
Branch -

600

REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED BY CANDIDATES FOR EMPLOYMENT IN THE CIVIL SERVICE OF CANADA.

Framed by the Board of Examiners for the Civil Service, under the provisions of the 20 Vict. c. 24., and approved by His Excellency the Administrator of the Government in Council.

APPLICATIONS AND CERTIFICATES.

1. Every candidate is required to send to the Secretary of the Board, at the Office of the Provincial Secretary, an application in his own handwriting, stating his age, place of birth, present place of residence, the length of time he has been resident in Canada, the nature of his past occupations, and that it is his desire to enter into the Civil Service of Canada, naming the particular department (if any) for which he believes himself more particularly adapted.

2. The application must be accompanied by satisfactory certificates as to the age, health, and character of the candidate.

3. The certificate of age should contain the best evidence of the date of the candidate's birth of which his case is susceptible.

4. The certificate of health must be in the subjoined form marked A, signed by a duly licensed medical practitioner, and bear date within six months of the date of the application to the Board.

5. The Board of Examiners reserve to themselves full discretion as to the evidence of character which in particular cases they may deem it expedient to require, but a compliance with the requirements of the four following paragraphs is all that under ordinary circumstances will be deemed necessary.

6. Candidates who have been previously employed in any department of the public service must state the department in which they so served, and the length of time they were employed.

7. Every candidate must name two or more referees, of whom two at least must be householders, and such referees must respectively fill up and sign a certificate in the subjoined form marked B.