"The papers in all cases of reduction, removal and enforced resignation
are required to be submitted to the Board for recommendation before
transmission to the Civil Governor or Secretary of Department for
final action.

"The Board is required to keep a record of all unclassified as well
as classified employees in the Philippine civil service, showing
among other things date of appointment, original position and salary,
place of employment, all changes in status and grade, and all accrued
and sick leave granted.

"From its service records the Board is required to compile annually,
for publication on January 1, a roster of the officers and employees
under the Philippine Government.

"Applications from employees, classified and unclassified, for accrued
and sick leave for more than two days must be made on a form prescribed
by the Board and forwarded to it for verification of service record
and previous leave granted and for recommendation before final action
is taken by the Civil Governor or Secretary of Department."

These extracts from official reports clearly show that the act was
indeed of a very advanced type, and if honestly enforced would of
necessity lead to the establishment and maintenance of "an efficient
and honest civil service," for which purpose it was enacted.

In 1905 the insular government dispensed with boards as administrative
agencies, and in accordance with this general policy, a bureau of
civil service with a director at its head was substituted for the
Civil Service Board, thus securing greater administrative efficiency
and increased economy.

At first the Civil Service Act applied to comparatively few positions,
as only a few bureaus and offices had been created, but as the
government was organized and grew, the different bureaus and offices
were placed in the classified service, the acts organizing them leaving
in the unclassified service positions to which in the judgment of
the commission the examination requirements of the act should not
apply. Ultimately these requirements were made applicable to the
treasurers of all municipalities and to all positions, including
teachers, in the executive and judicial branches of the central
government, the provincial governments, and the governments of the
cities of Manila and Baguio, except a few specifically excepted by
law, which for the most part are unclassified or exempt in almost
all governments, national, state and municipal, having civil