mission may reasonably require touching the applicant's fitness for
the public service. The applicant must also state the number of members
of his family in the public service and where employed, and must also
assert that he is not disqualified under section. 8 of the civil-service
act, which is as follows:

"That no person habitually using intoxicating beverages to excess shall
be appointed to or retained in any office, appointment, or employment to
which the provisions of this act are applicable."

No person dismissed from the public service for misconduct shall be
admitted to examination within two years thereafter, and no person not
absolutely appointed or employed after probation shall be admitted to
an examination within one year thereafter.

2. No person under enlistment in the Army or Navy of the United States
shall be examined under these rules, except for some place requiring
special qualifications, and with the consent in writing of the head of
the Department under which he is enlisted.

3. The Commission may, by regulations subject to change at any time by
the President, declare the kind and measure of ill health, physical
incapacity, misrepresentation, and bad faith which may properly exclude
any person from the right of examination, grading, or certification
under these rules. It may also provide for medical certificates of
physical capacity in the proper cases, and for the appropriate
certification of persons so defective in sight, speech, hearing, or
otherwise as to be apparently disqualified for some of the duties of
the part of the service which they seek to enter.

RULE XII.

1. Every regular application must be supported by proper certificates of
good moral character, health, and physical and mental capacity for doing
the public work, the certificates to be in such form and number as the
regulations of the Commission shall provide; but no certificate will be
received which is inconsistent with the tenth section of the
civil-service act.

2. No one shall be examined for admission to the classified postal
service if under 16 or over 35 years of age, excepting messengers,
stampers, and other junior assistants, who must not be under 14 years
of age, or to the classified customs service or to the classified
departmental service if under 18 or over 45 years of age; but no one
shall be examined for appointment to any place in