This is an excerpt from a law passed in 1883. First, for open, competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for the public service…such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the person examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed. What is the name of this law? Dawes Severalty Act Dawes Severalty Act Pendleton Act Pendleton Act Pure Food and Drug Act Pure Food and Drug Act Sherman Antitrust Act Sherman Antitrust Act