What did the Pendleton civil service act do?

Around 530 a. d., emperor justinian organized a group of legal scholars to collect and organize all roman law into written form. the justinian codex was created because justinian wanted to strengthen his large empire with

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

What crime was king louis xvi accused of, what happened to him as a result?