RULE XVI.

1. Whenever any officer having the power of appointment or employment shall so request, there shall be certified to him, by the Commission or the proper examining board, four names for the vacancy specified, to be taken from those graded highest on the proper register of those in his branch of the service and remaining eligible, regard being had to any right of preference and to the apportionment of appointments to States and Territories; and from the said four a selection shall be made for the vacancy. But if a person is on both a general and a special register he need be certified from the former only, at the discretion of the Commission, until he has remained two months upon the latter.

2. These certifications for the service at Washington shall be made in such order as to apportion, as nearly as may be practicable, the original appointments thereto among the States and Territories and the District of Columbia, upon the basis of population as ascertained at the last preceding census.

3. In case the request for any such certification or any law or regulation shall call for those of either sex, persons of that sex shall be certified, otherwise sex shall be disregarded in such certification.

4. No person upon any register shall be certified more than four times to the same officer in the customs or postal service, or more than three times to any Department at Washington, unless upon request of the appointing officer; nor shall any one remain eligible more than one year upon any register except as may be provided by regulation; but these restrictions shall not extend to examinations under clause 5 of Rule 7. No person while remaining eligible on any register shall be admitted to a new examination, and no person having failed upon any examination shall within six months thereafter be admitted to another examination, without the consent of the Commission.

5. Any person appointed to or employed in any part of the classified service, who shall be dismissed or separated therefrom without fault or delinquency on his part, may be reappointed or re-employed in the same part or grade of such service in the same Department or office, within one year next following such dismissal or separation, without further examination, or such certification as the Commission may provide.

RULE XVII.

1. Every original appointment or employment in said classified service shall be for the probationary period of six months, at the end of which time, if the conduct and capacity of the person appointed have been found satisfactory, the probationer shall be absolutely appointed or employed, but otherwise be deemed out of the service.

2. Every officer under whom any probationer shall serve during any part of the probation provided for by these rules shall carefully observe the quality and value of the service rendered by such probationer, and shall report to the proper appointing officer, in writing, the facts observed by him, showing the character and qualifications of such probationer, and of the service performed by him; and such reports shall be preserved on file.

3. Every false statement knowingly made by any person in his application for examination, and every connivance by him at any false statement made in any certificate which may accompany his application, and every deception or fraud practiced by him or by any person in his behalf and with his knowledge to influence his examination, certification, or appointment shall be regarded as good cause for the removal or discharge of such person during his probation or thereafter.

RULE XVIII.

Every head of a department or office shall notify the Commission of the name of every person appointed to, or employed in, the classified service under him (giving the date of the appointment and the designation of the office or place) from those examined under the Commission; and shall also inform the Commission of the date of any rejection or final appointment or employment of any probationer, and of the promotion, removal, discharge, resignation, transfer, or death of any such person after probation. Every head of any office in the postal or customs service shall give such information on these subjects to the Board of Examiners for his office as the regulations of the Commission may provide for.

RULE XIX.

There are excepted from examination the following: 1. The confidential clerk or secretary of any head of a department or office. 2. Cashiers of collectors. 3. Cashiers of postmasters. 4. Superintendents of money-order divisions in post-offices. 5. The direct custodians of money for whose fidelity another officer is under official bond and disbursing officers having the custody of money who give bonds; but these exceptions shall not extend to any official below the grade of assistant cashier or teller. 6. Persons employed exclusively in the secret service of the Government, or as translators, or interpreters, or stenographers. 7. Persons whose employment is exclusively professional. 8. Chief clerks, deputy collectors and superintendents, or chiefs of divisions or bureaus. But no person so excepted shall be either transferred, appointed, or promoted, unless to some excepted place, without an examination under the Commission. Promotions may be made without examination in offices where examinations for promotion are not now held, until rules on the subject shall be promulgated.

RULE XX.

If the failure of competent persons to attend and be examined, or the prevalence of contagious disease or other sufficient cause, shall make it impracticable to supply in due season for any appointment the names of persons who have passed a competitive examination, the appointment may be made of a person who has passed a non competitive examination, which examination the Commission may provide for; but its next report shall give the reason for such resort to non-competitive examination.

RULE XXI.

1. No person, unless excepted under Rule 19, shall be admitted into the classified civil service, from any place not within said service, without an examination and certification under the rules; nor shall any person who has passed only a limited examination under clause 4 of Rule 7, for the lower classes or grades in the departmental or customs service, be appointed, or be promoted within two years after appointment, to any position giving a salary of $1,000, or upwards, without first passing an examination under clause 1 of said rule, and such examination shall not be allowed within the first year after appointment.

2. But a person who has passed the examination under said clause 1, and has accepted a position giving a salary of $900 or less, shall have the same right of promotion as if originally appointed to a position giving a salary of $1,000 or more.

3. The Commission may at any time certify for a $900 or any lower place in the classified service any person upon the register who has passed the examination under clause 1 of Rule 7, if such person does not object before such certification is made.

RULE XXII.

Any person who has been in the classified departmental service for one year or more immediately previous, may, when the needs of the service require it, be transferred or appointed to any other place therein upon producing a certificate from the Civil Service Commission that such person has passed at the required grade one or more examinations, which are together equal to that necessary for original entrance to the place which would be secured by the transfer or appointment; and any person who has for three years last preceding served as a clerk in the office of the President of the United States may be transferred or appointed to any place in the classified service without examination.

RULE XXIII.

The Civil Service Commission will make appropriate regulations for carrying these rules into effect.

RULE XXIV.

Every violation, by any officer in the executive civil service, of these rules, or of the 11th, 12th, 13th, or 14th section of the civil service act, relating to political assessments, shall be good cause for removal.

[Rules 5, 7, 11, 16, 17, and 21 were amended and promulgated, and a new Rule, No. 22, was promulgated December 5, 1884; former Rule 22 is now 23, and 23 is Rule 24. Jersey City, N. J., was added to the list of classified post-offices, Rule 5, clause 5, October 6, 1884; and New Haven, Conn., December 11, 1884. Rules 5, 13, and 16 were amended and promulgated January 24, 1885.]

SPECIAL RULE No. 1.

Any person who was employed on or before the 16th day of January, 1883, in any Executive Department at Washington in a position not included in the classified service in said department, but who was at that date exclusively engaged in the duties of a clerk or copyist, and who has since been continuously so engaged, may, in the discretion of the head of the department, be treated as within the classified service in the department, in a grade corresponding to such duties; provided such person has either already passed an examination under the Civil Service Rules, or shall pass an appropriate competitive or non-competitive examination thereunder, at a grade of sixty-five per cent. or upwards.

Approved June 12th, 1884.

SPECIAL RULE NO. 2.

The names of all persons who shall have successfully passed their examination under the Civil Service Rules previous to July 16, 1884, may remain on the Register of persons eligible for appointment two years from the date of their respective registrations, unless sooner appointed. Approved July 18th, 1884.

SPECIAL RULE NO. 3.

Appointments to the 150 places in the Pension Office provided to be filled by the act of July 7th, 1884, except so far as they may be filled by promotions, must be separately apportioned by the appointing power in as near conformity to the second section of the act of January 16th, 1883, as the need of filling them promptly and the residence and quali fications of the applicants will permit.

Approved July 22d, 1884.

REGULATIONS.

The United States Civil Service Commission, acting under the authority of the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883, and the rules promulgated by the President, makes the following regulations:

CHIEF EXAMINER.

1. The Chief Examiner shall, as far as practicable, except when otherwise directed by the Commission, attend the examinations held by the several boards of examiners. He shall take care to secure accuracy, uniformity, and justice in all their proceedings, which shall at all times be open to him; but leaving the duty of the examiners, in marking and grading those examined, unimpaired. The Commission will, in its discretion, designate one of its own members, or request the detail of a suitable person, to supervise examinations whenever deemed needful.

2. He shall prepare and submit to the approval of the Commission proper forms and questions. He shall take care that the rules and regulations are complied with, and bring every case of injustice and irregularity observed by him to the attention of the Commission. He shall take such part as the Commission shall assign him in the work at Washington. It shall be his duty to confer, from time to time, with the heads of the postal and customs offices which he officially visits concerning the regularity, sufficiency, and convenience of the examinations for the service under them.

SECRETARY.

3. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of the proceedings of the Commission and have charge of and be responsible for the safe-keeping of the books, records, papers, and other property in its office. He shall make the proper certification of those eligible for the Departmental service. He shall generally conduct the correspondence of the Commission and perform such other appropriate duties as it may assign to him.

BOARDS OF EXAMINERS.

4. The general Board of Examiners for the Departmental service shall consist of three persons from the Treasury Department, two from the War Department, one from the Navy Department, two from the Post-Office Department, two from the Interior Department, one from the Department of Justice, one from the Department of Agriculture, and such other members as the Commission may designate. But any three members may be designated by the Commission to constitute the acting Examining Board for any examination.

The secretary of the Board of Examiners for the Departmental service shall keep a record of its proceedings and have charge of its papers.

5. In case of examinations to be held at other places than those having the classified service, the Commission will designate an Examining Board for that purpose.

6. For each post-office, the Board of Examiners shall consist of three persons.

7. The general Board of Examiners for each customs district shall consist of two or more persons selected from the office of the collector, and one from each of the other customs offices which are subject to the rules; but if there be no office subject thereto except that of the collector, the three shall be selected from his office.

8. Three Examiners may serve as a Board for conducting any examination; and the Examiners for any customs district will determine which three shall hold any examination, taking care that, if an exami nation is wholly or mainly for any office, one or more of the examiners from that office shall be on the acting Board. In case of a failure or disagreement as to which three shall be the Board for any examination, the Commission or Chief Examiner shall designate the local examiners who shall serve. In case of the disability or necessary absence of one of the three examiners selected, the other two may conduct the examination.

DUTIES OF EXAMINING BOARDS.

9. Each Examining Board in the postal and customs service shall select one of its members to serve as secretary, and it shall be his duty to keep a complete record of the proceedings of the Board and of all examinations held. He shall also keep the Record of Applicants and Examinations, and the Register of persons eligible for appointment, and all other records required. He shall have charge of all books and papers belonging to the Board and shall be responsible for their safekeeping. On application of the proper appointing officer, he shall certify to such officer, in conformity to the rules, the names of the four persons of highest grade remaining on the register. He shall also answer all proper requests for application blanks, and send due notifications to applicants to be examined, and shall give all other notices required to be given by the Board.

10. Neither the Commissioners nor any Examiner or other persons serving under them shall attempt to control or influence, in any manner, appointments, removals, or promotions; nor can they receive, retain, or transmit to appointing officers any letters of request, certificates, or recommendations other than those provided in the application paper; and all such unauthorized letters, certificates, and recommendations must be returned at once to the person offering or sending them.

11. Care must be taken by the examiners not to allow such visitors as they may admit, nor any conversation or other cause, to obstruct or distract those being examined.

12. Examiners must not disclose for public information, unless by consent, the names of those examined, or the grade they obtain. The relative standing of persons on the Registers of Eligibles must not be disclosed to any person without the consent of the Commission, as such disclosure may work a defeat of the purpose of the law in excluding influence, and in securing the appointment of the most worthy.

13. The Board of Examiners for each office or district must promptly notify the Commission of the need of holding an examination in and for such office or district, and may appoint the time for the same, but subject to any change the Commission may find it necessary to make for the more convenient and effective discharge of its duty to see that the