Department or office, at a grade for which no higher examination is
required than that for the position he last held, within one year next
following such dismissal or separation, without further examination, on
such certification as the Commission may provide.

RULE XVII.

1. Every original appointment or employment in said classified service
shall be for the probationary period of six months, at the end of which
time, if the conduct and capacity of the person appointed have been
found satisfactory to the officer having the duty of selection, the
probationer shall be absolutely appointed or employed, but otherwise be
deemed out of the service.

2. Every officer under whom any probationer shall serve during any part
of the probation provided for by these rules shall carefully observe the
quality and value of the service rendered by such probationer, and shall
report to the proper appointing officer in writing the facts observed by
him, showing the character and qualifications of such probationer and of
the service performed by him; and such reports shall be preserved on
file.

3. Every false statement knowingly made by any person in his application
for examination, and every connivance by him at any false statement
made in any certificate which may accompany his application, and every
deception or fraud practiced by him or by any person in his behalf and
with his knowledge to influence his examination, certification, or
appointment, shall be regarded as good cause for refusing to certify
such person or for the removal or discharge of such person during his
probation or thereafter.

RULE XIX.

There are excepted from examination the following: (1) The confidential
clerk or secretary of any head of a Department or office; (2) cashiers
of collectors; (3) cashiers of postmasters; (4) superintendents of
money-order divisions in post-offices; (5) the direct custodians of
money for whose fidelity another officer is under official bond, and
disbursing officers having the custody of money who give bond; but these
exceptions shall not extend to any official below the grade of assistant
cashier or teller; (6) persons employed exclusively in the secret
service of the Government, or as translators, or interpreters, or
stenographers; (7) persons whose employment is exclusively professional,
but medical examiners are not included among such persons; (8