mission,
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 hono