1. The papers of the copyist and of the clerk examinations shall be
marked by the central board; the papers of special and supplementary
examinations shall be marked as directed by the Commission. Each
competitor in any of the examinations mentioned or referred to above
shall be graded on a scale of 100, according to the general average
determined by the marks made by the examiners on his papers.
2. The papers of an examination having been marked, the Commission shall
ascertain--
(_a_) The name of every competitor who has, under section 1754 of
the Revised Statutes, claim of preference in civil appointments, and who
has attained a general average of not less than 65 per cent; and all
such competitors are hereby declared eligible to the class or place to
test fitness for which the examination was held.
(_b_) The name of every other competitor who has attained a general
average of not less than 70 per cent; and all such competitors are
hereby declared eligible to the class or place to test fitness for which
the examination was held.
3. The names of all preference-claiming competitors whose general
average is not less than 65 per cent, together with the names of all
other competitors whose general average is not less than 70 per cent,
shall be entered upon the register of persons eligible to the class or
place to test fitness for which the examination was held.
4. To facilitate the maintenance of the apportionment of appointments
among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia,
required by section 2 of the act to regulate and improve the civil
service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883, there shall be
lists of eligibles for each State and Territory and for the District of
Columbia, upon which shall be entered the names of the competitors from
that State or Territory or the District of Columbia who have passed the
copyist and the clerk examinations, the names of those who have passed
the copyist examination and of those who have passed the clerk
examination being listed separately; the names of male and of female
eligibles in such examinations being also listed separately.
5. But the names of all competitors who have passed a supplementary or a
special examination shall be entered, without regard to State residence,
upon the register of persons eligible to the class or place to test
fitness for which supplementary or special examination was held.
6. The grade of each competitor shall be expressed by the whole number
nearest the general average attained by him, and the grade of each
eligible shall be noted upon the register of eligibles in connection
with his name. When two or more eligibles are of the same grade,
preference in certification shall be determined by the order in which
their application papers were filed.
7. Immediately after the general averages in an examination shall have
been ascertained each competitor shall be notified that he has passed or
has failed to pass.
8. If a competitor fail to pass, he may, with the consent of the
Commission, be allowed reexamination at any time within six months from
the date of failure without filing a new application; but a competitor
failing to pass, desiring to take again the same examination, must, if
not allowed reexamination within six months from the date of failure,
make in due form a new application therefor.
9. No person who has passed an examination shall, while eligible on the
register supplied by such examination, be reexamined, unless he shall
furnish evidence satisfactory to the Commission that at the time of his
examination he was, because of illness or other good cause, incapable of
doing himself justice in said examination.
10. The term of eligibility to appointment under the copyist and the
clerk examinations shall be one year from the day on which the name of
the eligible is entered on the register. The term of eligibility under a
supplementary or a special examination shall be determined by the
Commission, but shall not be less than one year.