1. No person shall be promoted, without examination under these rules,
from any position for which an examination is not required to any
position for which an examination is required under the rules; nor shall
any 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 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 I of said rule, and such examination shall not be allowed
within the first year after appointment.
2. But a person who has passed the examination under said clause I 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.
3. 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 I of Rule VII if such person does not
object before such certification is made.
II. The following words are added as a fifth clause at the end of Rule
XVI, viz:
5. Any person appointed to or employed in any part of the classified
service, after due certification for the same under these rules, who
shall be dismissed or separated therefrom without fault or delinquency
on his part may be reappointed or reemployed in the same part or grade
of such service at the same office, within eight months next following
such dismissal or separation, without further examination.
III. It is further ordered that the rule heretofore designated XXI be
hereafter designated XXII, and XXII as Rule XXIII.
Approved, January 18, 1884.