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.