In section 1, clause (_c_), line 1, after the word "post-office,"
insert "or to the classified railway mail service;" in line 2, after
the word "from," strike out the words "such an office" and insert "a
classified post-office or the classified railway mail service." The
clause as thus amended will read:
(_c_) From the Post-Office Department to a classified post-office
or to the classified railway mail service, and from a classified
post-office or the classified railway mail service to the Post-Office
Department, upon requisition by the Postmaster-General.
In section 2, line 6, after the word "been," insert "in the classified
railway mail service or." The section as thus amended will read:
2. No person may be transferred as herein authorized until the
Commission shall have certified to the officer making the transfer
requisition that the person whom it is proposed to transfer has passed
an examination to test fitness for the place to which he is to be
transferred, and that such person has during at least six months
preceding the date of the certificate been in the classified railway
mail service or in the classified service of the Department, customs
district, or post-office from which the transfer is to be made:
_Provided_, That no person who has been appointed from the copyist
register shall be transferred to a place the salary of which is more
than $900 per annum until one year after appointment.