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to be filled by unskilled manual laborers, including positions
for road patrolmen under the State Roads Commission, and
may, if he sees fit, provide in lieu of said competitive exam-
inations such system or systems of registration for said
laborers or otherwise as in its judgment will best provide
for such positions; and provided further as to all positions
that the Commissioner may by his rules give preference in
competition for higher classes of positions to classified
service employees or to classified service employees of a
certain class or classes by giving credit for experience and
demonstrated efficiency (not to exceed twenty per centum
of all marks) in determining the relative fitness for promo-
tion of such employees. Veterans of the military and naval
services of the United States who served sometime during
the war with Spain (April 6, 1898, to July 2, 1902) or the
first World War (April 6, 1917, to November 11, 1918) or
in the Second World War (September 16, 1940, the date
on which the Selective Service Act became effective, to [the
end of the present hostilities in which the United States is
engaged]) December 31, 1946 or between June 1,1950 and
June l, 1953, who have either been honorably discharged or
who have received a certificate of satisfactory completion
of such service, and who have been bona fide residents of
this State for five years or more immediately preceding
the date on which such veteran takes any Merit System
examination, shall be given special credit for such service;
provided, such veterans served a minimum of ninety days
in the service of the United States, as aforesaid, or were
discharged by reason of a disability incurred in line of duty.
Such war veterans who are disabled as the result of their
war service shall be given a credit of ten points in all
examinations for appointments. Non-disabled veterans
shall be given a credit of five points in all examinations for
appointment. All such credits shall also be allowed in
determining whether any such veteran attains a passing
mark in any such examination.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1952.

Approved March 28, 1952.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.