GROVER CLEVELAND.

Clause (_e_) of section 2 of General Rule III is amended by adding

thereto the following, and as thus amended is hereby promulgated:

But no person appointed to such a place upon noncompetitive examination

shall within one year after appointment be transferred or appointed to

any place not excepted from examination; but after having served in such

noncompetitive place not less than one year he may be transferred or

appointed in the bureau or office in which he is serving to a place not

excepted from examination upon the certificate of the Commission or the

proper board of examiners that he has passed an examination to test

fitness for the place to which his transfer or appointment is proposed.

Approved, November 1, 1888.

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