er the rules; nor shall any 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 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 I of said rule; and such examination shall not
be allowed within the first year after appointment.

2. But a person who has passed the examination under said clause I 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.

3. 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 I 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 one
year 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 would be secured by the transfer or appointment.

RULE XXIII.

The Civil Service Commission will make appropriate regulations for
carrying these rules into effect.

RULE XXIV.

Every violation by any officer in the executive civil service of these
rules, or of the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, or fourteenth sections
of the civil-service act, relating to political assessments, shall be
good cause for removal.

Approved, December 5, 1884.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the
Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third
section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved
January 16, 1883, the following rules for the regulation and improvement
of the executive civil service are hereby amended and promulgated, as
follows:

RULE V.

There shall be three branches of the service classified under the
civil-service act (not including laborers or workmen or officers
required to be confirmed by the Senat