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.
5. The provisions of this rule relating to promotions shall cease to be
operative in any classified Department, customs office, or post-office
when regulations for promotions have been applied thereto by the
Commission under the authority conferred by clause 2 of Rule VI.
Approved, May 5, 1887.