hall 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 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.

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.

These rules shall take effect March 1, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

[Footnote 18: Storekeepers shall be classed as clerks, and vacancies in
that class shall be filled by assignment.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., March 1, 1888_.

In the exercise of authority vested in the President by the seventeen
hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes to prescribe
such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service
of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof and
ascertain the fitness of each applicant in respect to age, health,
character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of the service into
which he seeks to enter, I hereby direct that the officers, clerks, and
other employees of