2. That the head of a Department has, in a written statement to be
filed with the Commission, requested such transfer to a place in said
Department, to be designated in the statement.
3. That said person is shown in the statement or by other evidence
satisfactory to the Commission to have been during six consecutive
months in such service since January 16, 1883.
4. That such person has passed at the required grade one or more
examinations under the Commission which are together equal to that
required for the place to which the transfer is to be made.
But 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, April 12, 1886.