To test fitness for the classified departmental service there shall be a clerk-copyist examination and such supplementary and special examinations as the Commission may provide to meet the special requirements of the service.
Grover Cleveland: “To test fitness for the classified departmental service there shall be a clerk-copyist examination and such…”
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Executive Order—Amendments of Civil Service Rules
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