2. The Commission may by regulations, subject to change at any time by
the President, declare the kind and measure of ill health, physical
incapacity, misrepresentation, and bad faith which may properly exclude
any person from the right of examination, grading, or certification
under these rules. It may also provide for medical certificates of
physical capacity in the proper cases, and for the appropriate
certification of persons so defective in sight, speech, hearing, or
otherwise as to be apparently disqualified for some of the duties of
the part of the service which they seek to enter.
2. The second clause of Rule XII is amended by substituting for the
first line and the second line thereof down to the word "age" therein
(as printed in the annual report of the Commission) the following words:
No one shall be entitled to be examined for admission to the
classified postal service if under 16 or over 35 years of age,
excepting messengers, stampers, and other junior assistants, who
must not be under 14 years of age.
3. Rule XXI, as printed in said report, is amended by substituting
for the first two lines and the third line down to the word "rules"
therein the following words:
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.
Approved, April 23, 1884.