Sárraga v. Sancho Bonet

Mr. Justice De Jesús

delivered the opinion of the court.

Petitioner was appointed on February 4, 1937, temporary Paymaster and Chief of Bureau of Accounts in the Treasury Department with a salary of $3,300 per annum.

Having decided to appoint him permanently to a position comprised within the Classified Civil Service, the Treasurer asked the Governor to exercise the power conferred on him by subdivision (k) of section 4 of the Civil Service Act, approved in 1931, and to exempt said employee from the *857•competitive examination in the interest of administrative -economy and of the efficiency of the…