) chief
clerks, deputy collectors, deputy naval officers, deputy surveyors of
customs, and superintendents or chiefs of divisions or bureaus. But no
person so excepted shall be either transferred, appointed, or promoted,
unless to some excepted place, without an examination under the
Commission, which examination shall not take place within six months
after entering the service. Promotions may be made without examination
in offices where examinations are not now held until rules on the
subject shall be promulgated.

RULE XXI.

1. No person, unless excepted under Rule XIX, shall be admitted into the
classified civil service from any place not within said service without
an examination and certification under the rules; with this exception,
that any person who shall have been an officer for one year or more last
preceding in any Department or office, in a grade above the classified
service thereof, may be transferred or appointed to any place in the
service of the same without examination.

2. No person who has passed only a limited examination under clause 4
of Rule VII for the lower classes or grades in the departmental or
customs service shall be appointed, or be promoted within two years
after appointment, to any position giving a salary of $1,000 or upward,
without first passing an examination under clause 1 of said rule; and
such examination shall not be allowed within the first year after
appointment.

3. But a person who has passed the examination under said clause 1, and
has accepted a position giving a salary of $900 or less, shall have the
same right of promotion as if originally appointed to a position giving
a salary of $1,000 or more.

4. The Commission may at any time certify for a $900 or any lower place
in the classified service any person upon the register who has passed
the examination under clause 1 of Rule VII if such person does not
object before such certification is made.

RULE XXII.

Any person who has been in the classified departmental service for six
months or more immediately previous may, when the needs of the service
require it, be transferred or appointed to any other place therein upon
producing a certificate from the Civil Service Commission that such
person has passed at the required grade one or more examinations which
are together equal to that necessary for original entrance to the place
which w