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for the position of carrier if under twenty-one or over forty years of age. No person shall be examined for any other position in the classified postal service if under eighteen or over forty-five years of age.

3. Any person desiring examination for admission to the classified postal service must make request, in his own handwriting, for a blank form of application, which request, and also his application, shall be addressed as directed by the commission. 4. The date of reception and also of approval by the board of each of such applications shall be noted on the application paper.

5. Exceptions from examinations in the classified postal service are hereby made as follows:

(a) Assistant postmaster.

(b) One private secretary, or one confidential clerk of the.postmaster.

(d) Assistant cashier.

(e) Superintendents designated by the Post-Office Department, and reported as such to the commission: Provided, That superintendents of mails shall be selected from among the employés of the Railway Mail Service.

(f) Custodians of money, stamps, stamped envelopes, or postal-cards, designated as such by the Post-Office Department, and so reported to the commission, for whose fidelity the postmaster is under official bond.

6. No person appointed to a place under any exception to examination hereby made shall, within one year after appointment, be transferred to another place not also excepted from examination; but a person who has served not less than one year in an examination-excepted place may be transferred in the post-office in which he is serving to a place not excepted from examination: Provided, That before any such transfer may be made the commission must certify that the person whom it is proposed to so transfer has passed an examination to test fitness for the place proposed to be filled by such transfer.

POSTAL RULE III.

1. The papers of every examination shall be marked under the direction of the commission, and each competitor shall be graded on a scale of 100, according to the general average determined by marks made by the examiners on his papers.

2. The commission shall appoint in each classified post-office a board of examiners, which shall

(a) Conduct all examinations held to test fitness for entrance to or promotion in the classified service of the post-office in which the board is located.

(b) Mark the papers of such examinations, unless otherwise directed, as provided for by General Rule III, clause 12.

3. The papers of an examination having been marked, the board of examiners shall ascertain

(a) The name of every competitor who has, under section 1754 of the revised Statutes, claim of preference in civil appointments, and who has attained a general average of not less than 65 per cent.; and all such competitors are hereby declared eligible to the class or place to test fitness for which the examination was held.

(b) The name of every other competitor who has attained a general average of not less than 70 per cent.; and all such applicants are hereby declared eligible to the class or place to test fitness for which the examination was held.

4. The names of all preference-claiming competitors whose general average is not less than 65 per cent., together with the names of all other competitors whose general average is not less than 70 per cent., shall be entered upon the register of persons eligible to the class or place to test fitness for which the examination was held. The names of male and of female eligibles shall be listed separately. When two or more eligibles are of the same grade, preference in certification shall be determined by the order in which their application papers were filed.

5. Immediately after the general averages shall have been ascertained each competitor shall be notified that he has passed or has failed to pass.

6. If a competitor fail to pass, he may, with the consent of the board, approved by the commission, be allowed re-examination at any time within six months from the date of failure, without filing a new application. But a competitor failing to pass, desiring to take again the same examination, must, if not allowed re-examination within six months from the date of failure, inake, in due form, a new application therefor.

7. No person who has passed an examination shall, while eligible on the register supplied by such examination, be re-examined, unless he shall furnish evidence satisfactory to the commission that at the time of his examination he was, because of illness or for other good cause, incapable of doing himself justice in said examination. 8. The term of eligibility to appointment in the classified postal service shall be one year from the day on which the name of the eligible is entered on the register.

POSTAL RULE IV.

1. Vacancies in the classified service of a post-office, unless among the places excepted from examination, if not filled by either transfer or promotion, shall be filled in the following manner:

(a) The postmaster at a post-office in which a vacancy may exist shall, in form and manner to be prescribed by the commission, request the board of examiners to certify to him the names of either males or females, eligible to the vacant place.

(b) If fitness for the place to be filled is tested by competitive examination, the board of examiners shall certify the names of three males or three females, these names to be those of the eligibles who, standing higher in grade than any other three eligibles of the same sex on the register from which certifieation is to be made, have not been certified three times from said register: Provided, That if upon said register there are the names of eligibles who, under section 1754 of the Revised Statutes, have claim of preference in civil appointments, the names of such eligibles shall be certified before the names of other eligibles higher in grade. The commission shall make regulations that will secure to each of such preference-claiming eligibles, in the order of his grade among other preference claimants, opportunity to have his claim of preference considered and determined by the appointing officer.

(e) Each name on any register of eligibles may be certified only three times. 2. Of the three names certified to him the postmaster must select one; and if, at the time of making this selection, there are more vacancies than one, he may select more than one name. Each person thus designated for appointment shall be notified, and upon reporting in person to the postmaster shall be appointed for a probational period of six months, at the end of which period, if his conduct and capacity be satisfactory to the postmaster, he shall receive absolute appointment; but if his conduct and capacity be not satisfactory to said officer he shall be notified that he will not receive absolute appointment, and this notification shall discharge him from the service.

3. The postmaster of each classified post-office shall require the superintendent of each division of his office to carefully observe and report in writing the services rendered by and the character and qualifications of each probationer serving under him. These reports shall be preserved on file, and the commission may prescribe the form and manner in which they shall be made.

POSTAL RULE V.

Until promotion regulations shall have been applied to a classified post-office, promotions therein may be made upon any test of fitness determined upon by the postmaster, if not disapproved by the commission: Provided, That no employé shall be promoted to any grade he could not enter by appointment under the minimum age limitation applied thereto by Postal Rule II, clause 2.

POSTAL RULE VI.

1. Transfers may be made as follows:

(a) From one classified post-office to another; from any classified post-office to the classified railway mail service; and from the classified railway mail service to any classified post-office, upon requisition of the Postmaster-General.

(b) From any classified post-office or from the classified railway mail service to the Post-Office Department,and from the Post-Office Department to any classified post-office or to the classified railway mail service, upon requisition of the Postmaster-General. 2. No person may be transferred, as herein authorized, until the commission shall have certified to the officer making the transfer requisition that the person whom it is proposed to transfer has passed an examination to test fitness for the place to which he is to be transferred, and that such person has been at least six months next preceding the date of the certificate in the classified railway mail service or in the classified service of the Department or post-office from which the transfer is to be made.

POSTAL RULE VII.

Upon the requisition of a postmaster the board of examiners for his office shall certify for reinstatement, in a grade requiring no higher examination than the one in which he was formerly employed, any person who, within one year next preceding the date of the requisition, has, through no delinquency or misconduct, been separated from the classified service in said office: Provided, That certification may be made, subject to the other conditions of this rule, for the reinstatement of any person who served in the military or naval service of the United States, in the late war of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged therefrom, without regard to the length of time he has been separated from the service.

POSTAL RULE VIII.

Each postmaster in the classified postal service shall report to the board of examiners(a) Every probational and every absolute appointment, and every appointment under any exception to examination authorized by Postal Rule II, clause 5, made in his office.

(b) Every refusal to make an absolute appointment in his office, and every refusal or neglect to accept an appointment in the classified service under him. (c) Every transfer into the classified service under him.

(d) Every separation from the classified service under him, and whether the separation was caused by dismissal, resignation, or death. Places excepted from examination are within the classified service.

(e) Every restoration to the classified service under him of any person who may have been separated therefrom by dismissal or resignation.

Approved February 2, 1888.

These rules shall take effect March 1, 1888.

CLASSIFIED POSTAL SERVICE.

SPECIAL POSTAL RULE No. 1.

In additions to the exceptions from examination in the classified postal service made by Postal Rule II, clause 5, the following exception to examination in that service is hereby made:

Printers, employed as such: Provided, That before any person may be employed, under this exception to examination, the Post-Office Department shall inform the commission of the authority given to employ printers at any post-office, and of the number authorized to be employed at such office.

RAILWAY MAIL RULES.

RAILWAY MAIL RULE I.

The classified railway mail service shall include all the officers, clerks, and other persons in that service, classified under the provisions of section 6 of the act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883.

RAILWAY MAIL RULE II.

1. To test fitness for admission to the classified railway mail service the following examinations shall be provided:

Clerk examination.-This examination shall include not more than the following subjects:

(a) Orthography.

(b) Copying.

(d) Arithmetic: Fundamental rules, fractions, and percentage.

(e) Letter-writing.

(ƒ) The geography of the United States and especially of the State or railway mail division in which the applicant resides.

(g) The railway systems of the State or railway mail division in which the applicant resides.

(h) Reading addresses.

Other competitive examinations.-Such other competitive examinations as the commission may from time to time deem necessary.

Non-competitive examinations.-Such examinations may, with the approval of the commission, be held under conditions stated in General Rule III, clause 2.

2. No person shall be examined for the railway mail service if under eighteen or over thirty-five years of age, except that any person honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty, and whose claim of preference under section 1754 of the Revised Statutes has been allowed by the commission, may be examined without regard to his age.

3. Any person desiring examination for admission to the classified railway mail service must, in his own handwriting, make request for a blank form of application, which request and also his application shall be addressed as follows: "United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C."

4. The date of reception and also of approval by the commission of each application shall be noted on the application paper.

5. Exceptions from examination in the classified railway mail service are hereby made as follows:

(a) General superintendent.

(b) Assistant general superintendent.

(d) Clerks employed exclusively as porters in handling mail matter in bulk, in sacks, or pouches, and not otherwise.

(e) Clerks employed exclusively on steam-boats.

(ƒ) Transfer clerks at junction points or stations where not more than two such clerks are employed.

6. No person appointed to a place under any exception to examination hereby made shall, within one year after appointment, be transferred to another place not also excepted from examination; but after service of not less than one year in an examination-excepted place he may be transferred to a place not excepted from examination, upon the certificate of the commission that he has passed an examination to test fitness for the place to which his transfer is proposed.

RAILWAY MAIL RULE III.

2. The commission shall appoint in each railway mail division as many boards of examiners as it may deem necessary for the good of the service and the convenience of applicants: Provided, That there shall be at least one such board in each Territory and not less than two in each State, except that the number may be limited to one each in the States of Rhode Island and Delaware.

3. These boards shall conduct such examination for admission to and promotions in the classified railway mail service, and such examinations for the other branches of the classified service as the commission may direct. They shall also mark such examination papers as the commission may direct.

4. Unless otherwise directed by the commission the papers of examinations for admission to the classified railway mail service shall be marked by the central board. 5. The papers of an examination having been marked, the commission shall ascertain

(a) The name of every competitor who has, under section 1754 of the Revised Statutes, claim of preference in civil appointments, and who has attained a general average of not less than 65 per cent.; and all such competitors are hereby declared eligible to the class or place to test fitness for which the examination was held.

(b) The name of every other competitor who has attained a general average of not less than 70 per cent. and all such applicants are hereby declared eligible to the class or place to test fitness for which the examination was held.

6. The names of all preference-claiming competitors whose general average is not less than 65 per cent., together with the names of all other competitors whose general average is not less than 70 per cent., shall be entered upon the register of persons eligible to the class or place to test fitness for which the examination was held. When two or more eligibles are of the same grade, preference in certification shall be determined by the order in which their application papers were filed.

7. There shall be a register of eligibles for each State and Territory, and the names of all the eligibles of any State or Territory shall be entered upon the register for that State or Territory. The eligibles of the District of Columbia shall be entered, according to their election, upon the register of the State of Maryland or upon that of the State of Virginia.

8. Immediately after the general averages shall have been ascertained each competitor shall be notified that he has passed or has failed to pass.

9. If a competitor fail to pass, he may, with the consent of the commission, be allowed a re-examination at any time within six months from the date of failure without filing a new application; but if such re-examination be not allowed within that time he shall not be again examined without making in due form a new application. 10. No eligible shall be allowed re-examination during the term of his eligibility unless he shall furnish evidence satisfactory to the commission that at the time of his examination, because of illness or other good cause, he was incapable of doing himself justice in said examination.

11. The term of eligibility shall be such as the commission may by regulation determine, but shall not be less than one year from the day on which the name of the ligible is entered upon the register: Provided, That for public and sufficient reasons the commission shall have authority to extend the term of eligibility of the eligibles on the register of any State or Territory for such period, not exceeding one year, as it may deem necessary, without correspondingly extending the term of the eligibles on the registers of the other States and Territories as to which the same reasons do not exist.

RAILWAY MAIL RULE IV.

1. All vacancies in the classified railway mail service above class 1, unless among the places excepted from examination, shall be filled by promotion, upon such tests of fitness as the Postmaster-General, with the approval of the commission, may prescribe: Provided, That a vacancy occurring in a State or railway mail division in any grade may be filled by the transfer of a clerk of the same grade from another State or division, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General, with the approval of the commission, may prescribe, or by re-appointment under the provisions of Railway Mail

Rule VI.

. All vacancies in class 1, unless filled by transfer or re-appointment under Railway Mail Rule VI, shall be filled in the following manner:

(a) The General Superintendant shall, in form and manner to be prescribed by the

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