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 would be secured by the transfer or appointment; and any person
who has for three years last preceding served as a clerk in the office
of the President of the United States may be transferred or appointed
to any place in the classified service without examination.
Approved, November 27, 1885.