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And the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed shall continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes shall be continued in the said ports of the island of Guadeloupe, and no longer.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

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Done at the city of Washington, this 16th day of April, A.D. 1888, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twelfth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
T.F. BAYARD,
_Secretary of State_.

A PROCLAMATION

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Constant thanksgiving and gratitude are due from the American people to Almighty God for His goodness and mercy, which have followed them since the day He made them a nation and vouchsafed to them a free government. With loving kindness He has constantly led us in the way of prosperity and greatness. He has not visited with swift punishment our shortcomings, but with gracious care He has warned us of our dependence upon His forbearance and has taught us that obedience to His holy law is the price of a continuance of His precious gifts.

In acknowledgment of all that God has done for us as a nation, and to the end that on an appointed day the united prayers and praise of a grateful country may reach the throne of grace, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 29th day of November instant, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, to be kept and observed throughout the land.

On that day let all our people suspend their ordinary work and occupations, and in their accustomed places of worship, with prayer and songs of praise, render thanks to God for all His mercies, for the abundant harvests which have rewarded the toil of the husbandman during the year that has passed, and for the rich rewards that have followed the labors of our people in their shops and their marts of trade and traffic. Let us give thanks for peace and for social order and contentment within our borders, and for our advancement in all that adds to national greatness.

And mindful of the afflictive dispensation with which a portion of our land has been visited, let us, while we humble ourselves before the power of God, acknowledge His mercy in setting bounds to the deadly march of pestilence, and let our hearts be chastened by sympathy with our fellow-countrymen who have suffered and who mourn.

And as we return thanks for all the blessings which we have received from the hands of our Heavenly Father, let us not forget that He has enjoined upon us charity; and on this day of thanksgiving let us generously remember the poor and needy, so that our tribute of praise and gratitude may be acceptable in the sight of the Lord.

Done at the city of Washington on the 1st day of November, 1888, and in the year of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirteenth.

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In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
T.F. BAYARD,
_Secretary of State_.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

REVISED CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 2, 1888_.

In the exercise of power vested in him by the Constitution and of authority given to him by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and by an act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883, the President hereby makes and promulgates the following rules and revokes the rules known as "Amended Civil-Service Rules" and "Special Rule No. 1," heretofore promulgated under the power and authority referred to herein: _Provided_, That this revocation shall not be construed as an exclusion from the classified civil service of any now classified customs district or classified post-office.

GENERAL RULES.

GENERAL RULE 1.

Any officer in the executive civil service who shall use his official
authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election
or controlling the result thereof; or who shall dismiss, or cause to
be dismissed, or use influence of any kind to procure the dismissal
of any person from any place in the said service because such person
has refused to be coerced in his political action, or has refused to
contribute money for political purposes, or has refused to render
political service; and any officer, clerk, or other employee in the
executive civil service who shall willfully violate any of these rules,
or any of the provisions of sections 11, 12, 13, and 14 of the act
entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United
States," approved January 16, 1883, shall be dismissed from office.

GENERAL RULE II.

There shall be three branches of the classified civil service, as
follows:

1. The classified departmental service.

2. The classified customs service.

3. The classified postal service.

GENERAL RULE III.

1. No person shall be appointed or employed to enter the civil service,
classified in accordance with section 163 of the Revised Statutes and
under the "Act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United
States," approved January 16, 1883, until he shall have passed an
examination or shall have been shown to be specially exempted therefrom
by said act or by an exception to this rule set forth in connection with
the rules regulating admission to the branch of the service he seeks to
enter.

2. No noncompetitive examination shall be held except under the
following conditions:

(_a_) The failure of competent persons to be, after due notice,
competitively examined, thus making it impracticable to supply to the
appointing officer in due time the names of persons who have passed a
competitive examination.

(_b_) That a person has been during one year or longer in a place
excepted from examination, and the appointing or nominating officer
desires the appointment of such person to a place not excepted.

(_c_) That a person has served two years continuously since July
16, 1883, in a place in the departmental service below or outside
the classified service, and the appointing officer desires, with the
approval of the President, upon the recommendation of the Commission,
to promote such person into the classified service because of his
faithfulness and efficiency in the position occupied by him, and because
of his qualifications for the place to which the appointing officer
desires his promotion.

(_d_) That an appointing or nominating officer desires the
examination of a person to test his fitness for a classified place which
might be filled under exceptions to examination declared in connection
with the rules regulating admission to the classified service.

(_e_) That the Commission, with the approval of the President, has
decided that such an examination should be held to test fitness for any
particular place requiring technical, professional, or scientific
knowledge, special skill, or peculiar ability, to test fitness for which
place a competitive examination can not, in the opinion of the
Commission, be properly provided.

(_f_) That a person who has been appointed from the copyist
register wishes to take the clerk examination for promotion to a place
the salary of which is not less than $1,000 per annum.

(_g_) To test the fitness of a person for a place to which his
transfer has been requested.

(_h_) When the exigencies of the service require such examination
for promotion as provided by clause 6 of this rule.

3. All applications for examination must be made in form and manner
prescribed by the Commission.

4. No person serving in the Army or Navy shall be examined for admission
to the classified service until the written consent of the head of the
Department under which he is enlisted shall have been communicated to
the Commission.

No person who is an applicant for examination or who is an eligible
in one branch of the classified service shall at the same time be an
applicant for examination in any other branch of said service.

5. The Commission may refuse to examine an applicant who would be
physically unable to perform the duties of the place to which he desires
appointment. The reason for any such action must be entered on the
minutes of the Commission.

6. For the purpose of establishing in the classified civil service the
principle of compulsory competitive examination for promotion, there
shall be, so far as practicable and useful, compulsory competitive
examinations of a suitable character to test fitness for promotion; but
persons in the classified service who were honorably discharged from the
military or naval service of the United States, and the widows and
orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors, shall be exempt from such
examinations.

The Commission may make regulations, applying them to any part of the
classified service, under which regulations all examinations for
promotion therein shall be conducted and all promotions be made; but
until regulations in accordance herewith have been applied to any part
of the classified service promotions therein shall be made in the manner
provided by the rules applicable thereto. And in any part of the
classified service in which promotions are made under examination as
herein provided the Commission may in special cases, if the exigencies
of the service require such action, provide noncompetitive examinations
for promotion.

Persons who were in the classified civil service on July 16, 1883, and
persons who have been since that date or may be hereafter put into that
service by the inclusion of subordinate places, clerks, and officers,
under the provisions of section 6 of the act to regulate and improve the
civil service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883, shall be
entitled to all rights of promotion possessed by persons of the same
class or grade appointed after examination under the act referred to
above.

7. No question in any examination shall be so framed as to elicit
information concerning the political or religious opinions or
affiliations of competitors, and no discrimination in examination,
certification, or appointment shall be made by the Commission, the
examiners, or the appointing or nominating officer in favor of or
against any applicant, competitor, or eligible because of his political
or religious opinions or affiliations. The Commission, the examiners,
and the appointing or nominating officer shall discountenance all
disclosures of such opinions or affiliations by or concerning any
applicant, competitor, or eligible; and any appointing or nominating
officer who shall make inquiries concerning or in any other way attempt
to ascertain the political or religious opinions or affiliations of any
eligible, or who shall discriminate in favor of or against any eligible
because of the eligible's political or religious opinions or
affiliations, shall be dismissed from office.

8. Every applicant must state under oath--

(_a_) His full name.

(_b_) That he is a citizen of the United States.

(_c_) Year and place of his birth.

(_d_) The State, Territory, or District of which he is a _bona
fide_ resident, and the length of time he has been a resident thereof.

(_e_) His post-office address.

(_f_) His business or employment during the three years immediately
preceding the date of his application, and where he has resided each of
those years.

(_g_) Condition of his health, and his physical capacity for the
public service.

(_h_) His previous employment in the public service.

(_i_) Any right of preference in civil appointments he may claim
under section 1754 of the Revised Statutes.

(_j_) The kind of school in which he received his education.

(_k_) That he does not habitually use intoxicating beverages to excess.

(_l_) That he has not within the one year next preceding the date
of his application been dismissed from the public service for
delinquency or misconduct.

(_m_) Such other facts as the Commission may require.

9. Every applicant for examination for the classified departmental
service must support the statements of his application paper by
certificates of persons acquainted with him, residents of the State,
Territory, or District in which he claims _bona fide_ residence;
and the Commission shall prescribe the form and number of such
certificates.

10. A false statement made by an applicant, or connivance by him with
any person to make on his behalf a false statement in any certificate
required by the Commission, and deception or fraud practiced by an
applicant, or by any person on his behalf with his consent, to influence
an examination, shall be good cause for refusal to examine such
applicant or for refusing to mark his papers after examination.

11. All examinations shall be prepared and conducted under the
supervision of the Commission; and examination papers shall be marked
under rules made by the Commission, which shall take care that the
marking examiners do not know the name of any competitor in an
examination for admission whose papers are intrusted to them.

12. For the purpose of marking examination papers boards of examiners
shall be appointed by the Commission, one to be known as the central
board, which shall be composed of persons in the classified service, who
shall be detailed for constant duty at the office of the Commission.
Under supervision of the Commission the central board shall mark the
papers of the copyist and of the clerk examinations, and such of the
papers of the supplementary, special, and promotion examinations for the
departmental service and of examinations for admission to or promotion
in the other branches of the classified services as shall be submitted
to it by the Commission.

13. No person shall be appointed to membership on any board of examiners
until after the Commission shall have consulted with the head of the
Department or of the office under whom such person is serving.

14. An examiner shall be allowed time during office hours to perform his
duties as examiner, which duties shall be considered part of his
official duties.

15. The Commission may change the membership of boards of examiners
and--

(_a_) Prescribe the manner of organizing such boards.

(_b_) More particularly define their powers.

(_c_) Specifically determine their duties and the duties of the
members thereof.

16. Each board shall keep such records and make such reports as the
Commission may require, and such records shall be open to the inspection
of any member of this Commission or other person acting under authority
of the Commission, which may, for the purposes of investigation, take
possession of such records.

GENERAL RULE IV.

1. The names of all competitors who shall successfully pass an
examination shall be entered upon a register, and the competitors whose
names have been thus registered shall be eligible to any office or place
to test fitness for which the examination was held.

2. The Commission may refuse to certify--

(_a_) An eligible who is so defective in sight, speech, or hearing,
or who is otherwise so defective physically as to be apparently unfit to
perform the duties of the position to which he is seeking appointment.

(_b_) An eligible who has made a false statement in his
application, or been guilty of fraud or deceit in any matter connected
with his application or examination, or who has been guilty of a crime
or of infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct.

3. If an appointing or nominating officer to whom certification has been
made shall object in writing to any eligible named in the certificate,
stating that because of physical incapacity or for other good cause
particularly specified such eligible is not capable of properly
performing the duties of the vacant place, the Commission may, upon
investigation and ascertainment of the fact that the objection made is
good and well founded, direct the certification of another eligible in
place of the one to whom objection has been made.

GENERAL RULE V.

Executive officers shall in all proper ways facilitate civil-service
examinations; and customs officers, postmasters, and custodians of
public buildings at places where such examinations are to be held shall
for the purposes of such examinations permit and arrange for the use of
suitable rooms under their charge, and for heating, lighting, and
furnishing the same.

GENERAL RULE VI.

No person dismissed for misconduct, and no probationer who has failed
to receive absolute appointment or employment, shall be admitted to any
examination within one year after having been thus discharged from the
service.

GENERAL RULE VII.

1. Persons who have a _prima facie_ claim of preference for
appointments to civil offices under section 1754, Revised Statutes,
shall be preferred in certifications made under the authority of the
Commission to any appointing or nominating officer.

2. In making any reduction of force in any branch of the classified
civil service those persons shall be retained who, being equally
qualified, have been honorably discharged from the military or naval
service of the United States, and also the widows and orphans of
deceased soldiers and sailors.

GENERAL RULE VIII.

The Commission shall have authority to prescribe regulations under and
in accordance with these general rules and the rules relating specially
to each of the several branches of the classified service.

DEPARTMENTAL RULES.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE I.

1. The classified departmental service shall include the several
officers, clerks, and other persons in any Department, commission,
or bureau at Washington classified under section 163 of the Revised
Statutes, or by direction of the President for the purposes of the
examinations prescribed by the civil-service act of 1883, or for
facilitating the inquiries as to fitness of candidates for admission
to the departmental service in respect to age, health, character,
knowledge, and ability, as provided for in section 1753 of the Revised
Statutes.

2. The word "department," when used in the general or departmental
rules, shall be construed to mean any such Department, commission, or
bureau classified as above prescribed.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE II.

1. To test the fitness of applicants for admission to the classified
departmental service there shall be examinations as follows:

_Copyist examination_.--For places of $900 per annum and under.
This examination shall not include more than the following subjects:

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules, fractions, and percentage.

_Clerk examination_.--For places of $1,000 per annum and upward.
This examination shall not include more than the following subjects:

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules, fractions, percentage,
interest, and discount.

(_e_) Elements of bookkeeping and of accounts.

(_f_) Elements of the English language.

(_g_) Letter writing.

(_h_) Elements of the geography, history, and government of the
United States.

_Supplementary examinations_.--For places which, in the opinion of
the Commission, require, in addition to the knowledge required to pass
the copyist or the clerk examination, certain technical, professional,
or scientific knowledge, or knowledge of a language other than the
English language, or peculiar or special skill.

_Special examinations_.--For places which, in the opinion of the
Commission, require certain technical, professional, or scientific
knowledge or skill. Each special examination shall embrace, in addition
to the special subject upon which the applicant is to be tested, as many
of the subjects of the clerk examination as the Commission may decide to
be necessary to test fitness for the place to be filled.

_Noncompetitive examinations_.--For any place in the departmental
service for which the Commission may from time to time (subject to the
conditions prescribed by General Rule III, clause 2) determine that such
examinations ought to be held.

2. An applicant may take the copyist or the clerk examination and any or
all of the supplementary and special examinations provided for the
departmental service, subject to such limitations as the Commission may
by regulation prescribe; but no person whose name is on a departmental
register of eligibles shall during the period of his eligibility be
allowed reexamination unless he shall satisfy the Commission that at the
time of his examination he was unable, because of illness or other good
cause, to do himself justice in said examination; and the rating upon
such reexamination shall cancel and be a substitute for the rating of
such person upon the previous examination.

3. Exceptions from examination in the classified departmental service
are hereby made as follows:

(_a_) One private secretary or one confidential clerk of the head
of each classified Department and of each assistant secretary thereof,
and also of each head of bureau appointed by the President by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate.

(_b_) Direct custodians of money for whose fidelity another officer
is under official bond; but this exception shall not include any officer
below the grade of assistant cashier or assistant teller.

(_c_) Disbursing officers who give bonds.

(_d_) Persons employed exclusively in the secret service of the
Government.

(_e_) Chief clerks.

(_f_) Chiefs of divisions.

4. No person appointed to a place under the exceptions to examination
hereby made shall within one year after appointment be transferred from
such place to a place not also excepted from examination, but after
service of not less than one year in an examination-excepted place he
may be transferred in the bureau 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.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE III.

In compliance with the provisions of section 3 of the civil-service
act the Commission shall provide examinations for the classified
departmental service at least twice in each year in every State or
Territory in which there are a sufficient number of applicants for such
examinations; and the places and times of examinations shall, when
practicable, be so fixed that each applicant may know at the time of
making his application when and where he may be examined; but applicants
may be notified to appear at any place at which the Commission may order
an examination.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE IV.

1. Any person not under 20 years of age may make application for
admission to the classified departmental service, blank forms for which
purpose shall be furnished by the Commission.

2. Every application for admission to the classified departmental
service should be addressed as follows: "United States Civil Service
Commission, Washington, D.C."

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

DEPARTMENTAL RULE V.

1. The papers of all examinations for admission to or promotion in the
classified departmental service shall be marked as directed by the
Commission.

2. The Commission shall have authority to appoint the following-named
boards of examiners, which shall conduct examinations and mark
examination papers as follows:

_Central board_.--As provided for by General Rule III, clause 12.

_Special boards_.--These boards shall mark such papers of special
examinations for the classified departmental service as the Commission
may direct, and shall be composed of persons in the public service.

_Supplementary boards_.--These boards shall mark the papers of such
supplementary examinations for the classified departmental service as
the Commission may direct, and shall be composed of persons in the
public service.

_Promotion boards_.--One for each Department, of three members, and
one auxiliary member for each bureau of the Department for which the
board is to act. Unless the Commission shall otherwise direct, these
boards shall mark the papers of promotion examinations.

_Local boards_.--These boards shall be organized at one or more
places in each State and Territory where examinations for the classified
departmental service are to be held, and shall conduct such
examinations; and each shall be composed of persons in the public
service residing in the State or Territory in which the board is to act.

_Customs and postal boards_.--These boards shall conduct such
examinations for the classified departmental service as the Commission
shall direct.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VI.

1. The papers of the copyist and of the clerk examinations shall be
marked by the central board; the papers of special and supplementary
examinations shall be marked as directed by the Commission. Each
competitor in any of the examinations mentioned or referred to above
shall be graded on a scale of 100, according to the general average
determined by the marks made by the examiners on his papers.

2. 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 competitors are
hereby declared eligible to the class or place to test fitness for which
the examination was held.

3. 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.

4. To facilitate the maintenance of the apportionment of appointments
among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia,
required by section 2 of the act to regulate and improve the civil
service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883, there shall be
lists of eligibles for each State and Territory and for the District of
Columbia, upon which shall be entered the names of the competitors from
that State or Territory or the District of Columbia who have passed the
copyist and the clerk examinations, the names of those who have passed
the copyist examination and of those who have passed the clerk
examination being listed separately; the names of male and of female
eligibles in such examinations being also listed separately.

5. But the names of all competitors who have passed a supplementary or a
special examination shall be entered, without regard to State residence,
upon the register of persons eligible to the class or place to test
fitness for which supplementary or special examination was held.

6. The grade of each competitor shall be expressed by the whole number
nearest the general average attained by him, and the grade of each
eligible shall be noted upon the register of eligibles in connection
with his name. 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. Immediately after the general averages in an examination shall have
been ascertained each competitor shall be notified that he has passed or
has failed to pass.

8. If a competitor fail to pass, he may, with the consent of the
Commission, be allowed reexamination 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 reexamination within six months from the date of failure,
make in due form a new application therefor.

9. No person who has passed an examination shall, while eligible on the
register supplied by such examination, be reexamined, unless he shall
furnish evidence satisfactory to the Commission that at the time of his
examination he was, because of illness or other good cause, incapable of
doing himself justice in said examination.

10. The term of eligibility to appointment under the copyist and the
clerk examinations shall be one year from the day on which the name of
the eligible is entered on the register. The term of eligibility under a
supplementary or a special examination shall be determined by the
Commission, but shall not be less than one year.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VII.

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

(_a_) The appointing officer shall, in form and manner to be
prescribed by the Commission, request the certification to him of the
names of either males or females eligible to a certain place then
vacant.

(_b_) If fitness for the place to be filled is tested by
competitive examination, the Commission 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 list of eligibles from which certification is to be made, have
not been certified three times to the officer making the requisition:
_Provided_, That if upon any register from which certification is
to be made there are the names of eligibles who have, under section 1754
of the Revised Statutes, 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, an opportunity to have
his claim of preference considered and determined by the appointing
officer.

2. Certifications hereunder shall be made in such manner as to maintain
as nearly as possible the apportionment of appointments among the
several States and the Territories and the District of Columbia, as
required by law.

3. If the three names certified are those of persons eligible on the
copyist or the clerk register, the appointing officer shall select one,
and one only, and shall notify the person whose name has been selected
that he has been designated for appointment: _Provided_ That, for
the purpose of maintaining the apportionment of appointments referred to
in clause 2 of this rule, the Commission may authorize the appointing
officer to select more than one of the three names certified.

When certification is made from a supplementary or a special register,
and there are more vacancies than one to be filled, the appointing
officer may select from the three names certified more than one.

4. The Commission may certify from the clerk register for appointment to
a place the salary of which is less than $1,000 per annum any eligible
on said register who has given written notice that he will accept such a
place.

5. When a person designated for appointment shall have reported in
person to the appointing officer, he 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 appointing officer, 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. The appointing officer shall require the heads of
bureaus or divisions under whom probationers are serving to keep a
record and to make report of the punctuality, industry, habits, ability,
and aptitude of each probationer.

6. All persons appointed to or promoted in the classified departmental
service shall be assigned to the duties of the class or place to which
they have been appointed or promoted, unless the interests of the
service require their assignment to other duties; and when such
assignment is made the fact shall be reported to the head of the
Department.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VIII.

1. Transfers will be made as follows:

(_a_) From one Department to another, upon requisition by the head
of the Department to which the transfer is to be made.

(_b_) From a bureau of the Treasury Department in which business
relating to the customs is transacted to a classified customs district,
and from such a district to such a bureau of the Treasury Department,
upon requisition by the Secretary of the Treasury.

(_c_) From the Post-Office Department to a classified post-office,
and from such an office to the Post-Office Department, upon requisition
by 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 during at least six months
preceding the date of the certificate been in the classified service of
the Department, customs district, or post-office from which the transfer
is to be made: _Provided_, That no person who has been appointed
from the copyist register shall be transferred to a place the salary of
which is more than $900 per annum until one year after appointment.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE IX.

1. A person appointed from the copyist register may, upon any test of
fitness determined upon by the promoting officer, be promoted as
follows:

(_a_) At any time after probational appointment, to any place the
salary of which is not more than $900 per annum.

(_b_) At any time after one year from the date of probational
appointment, upon certification by the Commission that he has passed the
clerk examination or its equivalent, to any place the salary of which is
$1,000 per annum or more.

(_c_) At any time after two years from the date of probational
appointment, to any place the salary of which is $1,000 per annum or
more.

2. A person appointed from the clerk register or from any supplementary
or special register to a place the salary of which is $1,000 per annum
or more may, upon any test of fitness determined upon by the promoting
officer, be promoted at any time after absolute appointment.

3. A person appointed from the clerk register or from any supplementary
or special register to a place the salary of which is $900 or less may,
upon any test of fitness determined upon by the promoting officer, be
promoted at any time after probational appointment to any place the
salary of which is $1,000 per annum.

4. Other promotions may be made upon any tests of fitness determined
upon by the promoting officer.

5. The provisions of clauses 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this rule shall become
null and void in any part of the classified departmental service as soon
as promotion regulations shall have been applied thereto under General
Rule III, clause 6.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE X.

Upon requisition of the head of a Department the Commission shall
certify for reinstatement in said Department, 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 of that Department.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE XI.

Bach appointing officer in the classified departmental service shall
report to the Commission--

(_a_) Every probational and every absolute appointment made by him,
and every appointment made by him under any exception to examination
authorized by Departmental Rule II, clause 3.

(_b_) Every refusal by him to make an absolute appointment and
every refusal or neglect to accept an appointment in the classified
service under him.

(_c_) Every transfer within and into the classified service under
him.

(_d_) Every assignment of a person to the performance of the duties
of a class or place to which such person was not appointed.

(_e_) 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.

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

CUSTOMS RULES.

CUSTOMS RULE I.

1. The classified customs service shall include the officers, clerks,
and other persons in the several customs districts 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.

2. Whenever the officers, clerks, and other persons in any customs
district number as many as fifty, any existing classification of the
customs service made by the Secretary of the Treasury under section 6 of
the act of January 16, 1883, shall apply thereto, and thereafter the
Commission shall provide examinations to test the fitness of persons to
fill vacancies in said customs district and these rules shall be in
force therein. Every revision of the classification of any customs
office under section 6 of the act above mentioned, and every inclusion
within the classified customs service of a customs district, shall be
reported to the President.

CUSTOMS RULE II.

1. To test fitness for admission to the classified customs service,
examinations shall be provided as follows:

_Clerk examination_[18]--This examination shall not include more
than the following subjects:

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules, fractions, percentage,
interest, and discount.

(_e_) Elements of bookkeeping and of accounts.

(_f_) Elements of the English language.

(_g_) Letter writing.

(_h_) Elements of the geography, history, and government of the
United States.

_Law-clerk examination_.--This examination shall not include more
than the following subjects:

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules, fractions, percentage,
interest, and discount.

(_e_) Elements of the English language.

(_f_) Letter writing.

(_g_) Law questions.

_Day-inspector examination_.--This examination shall not include
more than the following subjects:

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules, fractions, and percentage.

(_e_) Elements of the English language.

(_f_) Geography of America and Europe.

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

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules.

(_e_) Geography of America and Europe.

_Night-inspector, messenger, assistant weigher, and opener and packer
examination_.--This examination shall not include more than the
following subjects:

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules.

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

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--practical questions.

(_e_) Theoretical questions.

(_f_) Practical tests.

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

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules, fractions, percentage, and
discount.

(_e_) Elements of the English language.

(_f_) Practical questions.

(_g_) Practical tests.

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

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules.

(_e_) Practical questions.

(_f_) Practical tests.

_Other competitive examinations_.--Such other competitive
examinations as the Commission may from time to time determine to be
necessary in testing fitness for other places in the classified customs
service.

_Noncompetitive examinations_.--Such examinations may, with the
approval of the Commission, be held under conditions stated in General
Rule III, clause 2.

2. Any person not under 21 years of age may be examined for anyplace in
the customs service to test fitness for which an examination is
prescribed, and any person not under 20 years of age may be examined for
clerk or messenger.

3. A person desiring examination for admission to the classified customs
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 examination in the classified customs service are
hereby made as follows:

(_a_) Deputy collectors, who do not also act as inspectors,
examiners, or clerks.

(_b_) Cashier of the collector.

(_c_) Assistant cashier of the collector.

(_d_) Auditor of the collector.

(_e_) Chief acting disbursing officer.

(_g_) Deputy naval officers.

(_g_) Deputy surveyors.

(_h_) One private secretary or one confidential clerk of each
nominating officer.

6. No person appointed to a place under any exception to examination
hereby made shall within one year after appointment be transferred from
such place 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 customs 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.

CUSTOMS RULE III.

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

2. The Commission shall appoint in each classified customs district a
board of examiners, which shall--

(_a_) Conduct all examinations held to test fitness for admission
to or promotion in the classified service of the customs district 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.

(_c_) Conduct such examinations for the classified departmental
service as the Commission may direct.

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.

5. The grade of each competitor shall be expressed by the whole number
nearest the general average attained by him, and the grade of each
eligible shall be noted upon the register of eligibles in connection
with his name. 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.

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

7. If a competitor fail to pass, he may, with the consent of the board,
approved by the Commission, be allowed reexamination 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 reexamination within six months from
the date of failure, make in due form a new application therefor.

8. No person who has passed an examination shall while eligible on the
register Supplied by such examination be reexamined, 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.

9. The term of eligibility to appointment in the classified customs
service shall be one year from the day on which the name of the eligible
is entered on the register.

CUSTOMS RULE IV.

1. Vacancies in the lowest class or grade of the classified service of a
customs district shall be filled in the following manner:

(_a_) The nominating officer in any 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 certification 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,
an opportunity to have his claim of preference considered and determined
by the appointing officer.

(_c_) Each name on a register of eligibles may be certified only
three times: _Provided_, That when a name has been three times
certified, if there are not three names on the register of higher grade,
it may, upon the written request of a nominating officer to whom it has
not been certified, be included in any certification made to said
officer.

2. Of the three names certified the nominating officer 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
proper officer 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 nominating officer, 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. Every nominating officer in the classified customs service shall
require the officer under whom a probationer may be serving to carefully
observe and report in writing the services rendered by and the character
and qualifications of such probationer. These reports shall be preserved
on file, and the Commission may prescribe the form and manner in which
they shall be made.

4. All other vacancies, unless among the places excepted from
examination, shall be filled by transfer or promotion.

CUSTOMS RULE V.

1. Until promotion regulations have been applied to a classified customs
district, the following promotions may be made therein at any time after
absolute appointment:

(_a_) A clerk, upon any test of fitness determined upon by the
nominating officer, to any vacant place in the class next above the one
in which he may be serving.

(_b_) A day inspector, upon any test of fitness determined upon by
the nominating officer, to class 2 in the grade of clerk.

(_c_) A clerk, day inspector, opener and packer, or sampler, after
passing the examiner examination, to the grade of examiner.

(_d_) A messenger, after passing the clerk examination, to the
lowest class in the grade of clerk.

(_e_) A night inspector, after passing the day-inspector
examination, to the grade of day inspector.

2. Other promotions may be made, in the discretion of the promoting
officer, upon any test of fitness determined upon by him.

CUSTOMS RULE VI.

1. Transfers may be made as follows:

(_a_) From one office of a classified district to another office in
the same district, subject to the provisions of Customs Rule V.

(_b_) From one classified district to another, upon requisition by
the Secretary of the Treasury.

(_c_) From any bureau of the Treasury Department in which business
relating to customs is transacted to any classified customs district,
and from any such district to any such bureau, upon requisition by the
Secretary of the Treasury.

2. No person may be transferred as herein authorized until the board of
examiners, acting under (_a_) of clause I, or until the Commission,
acting under (_b_) or (_c_) of clause i of this rule, 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 preceding the date of the
certificate in the classified service of the Department or customs
district from which the transfer is to be made.

CUSTOMS RULE VII.

Upon requisition of a nominating officer in any customs district the
board of examiners thereof shall certify for reinstatement in any office
under his jurisdiction, 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 of
said office.

CUSTOMS RULE VIII.

Each nominating officer of a classified customs district shall report to
the board of examiners--

(_a_) Every probational and absolute appointment, and every
appointment under any exception to examination authorized by Customs
Rule II, clause 5, made within his jurisdiction.

(_b_) Every refusal by him to nominate a probationer for absolute
appointment 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.

POSTAL RULES.

POSTAL RULE I.

1. The classified postal service shall include the officers, clerks,
and other persons in the several post-offices 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.

2. Whenever the officers, clerks, and other persons in any post-office
number as many as fifty, any existing classification of the postal
service made by the Postmaster-General under section 6 of the act of
January 16, 1883, shall apply thereto, and thereafter the Commission
shall provide examinations to test the fitness of persons to fill
vacancies in said post-office and these rules shall be in force therein.
Every revision of the classification of any post-office under section 6
of the act above mentioned, and every inclusion of a post-office within
the classified postal service, shall be reported to the President.

POSTAL RULE II.

1. To test fitness for admission to the classified postal service
examinations shall be provided as follows:

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

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules, fractions, and percentage.

(_e_) Elements of the English language.

(_f_) Letter writing.

(_g_) Elements of the geography, history, and government of the
United States.

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

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules.

(_e_) Elements of the geography of the United States.

(_f_) Knowledge of the locality of the post-office delivery.

(_g_) Physical tests.

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

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules.

(_e_) Physical tests.

This examination shall also be used to test fitness for the position of
piler, stamper, junior clerk, or other places the duties of which are
chiefly manual.

_Special examinations_.--These examinations shall test fitness for
positions requiring knowledge of a language other than the English
language, or special or technical knowledge or skill. Each special
examination shall include, in addition to the special subject upon which
the applicant is to be tested, so many of the subjects of the clerk
examination as the Commission may determine.

_Noncompetitive 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 position of clerk if under 18
years of age; and no person shall be examined for the position of
messenger, stamper, or junior clerk if under 16 or over 45 years of age;
and no person shall be examined for the position of carrier if under 21
or over 40 years of age. No person shall be examined for any other
position in the classified postal service if under 18 or over 45 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.

(_c_) Cashier.

(_d_) Assistant cashier.

(_e_) Superintendents designated by the Post-Office Department and
reported as such to the Commission.

(_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.