h he is seeking appointment, or an eligible who has been
guilty of crime or of infamous or of notoriously disgraceful conduct.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE V.

In section 2, paragraph 6, after the word "service" in line 3, insert
the words "or the classified railway mail service;" in paragraph 7, line
1, strike out the word "and," and after the word "postal" in the same
line insert the words "and railway mail." The section as thus amended
will read:

_Local boards_.--These boards shall be organized at one or more
places in each State and Territory where examinations for the classified
departmental service or the classified railway mail 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, postal, and railway mail boards_.--These boards shall
conduct such examinations for the classified departmental service as the
Commission may direct.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VIII.

In section 1, clause (_c_), line 1, after the word "post-office,"
insert "or to the classified railway mail service;" in line 2, after
the word "from," strike out the words "such an office" and insert "a
classified post-office or the classified railway mail service." The
clause as thus amended will read:

(_c_) From the Post-Office Department to a classified post-office
or to the classified railway mail service, and from a classified
post-office or the classified railway mail service to the Post-Office
Department, upon requisition by the Postmaster-General.

In section 2, line 6, after the word "been," insert "in the classified
railway mail service or." The section as thus amended will read:

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 railway
mail service or 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 unt