There shall be three branches of the service classified under the
civil-service act (not including laborers or workmen or officers
required to be confirmed by the Senate), as follows:
1. Those classified in the Departments at Washington shall be designated
"The classified departmental service."
2. Those classified under any collector, naval officer, surveyor, or
appraiser in any customs district shall be designated "The classified
customs service."
3. Those classified under any postmaster at any post-office, including
that at Washington, shall be designated "The classified postal service."
4. The classified customs service shall embrace the several customs
districts where the officials are as many as fifty, now the following:
New York City, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.; Philadelphia, Pa.; San Francisco,
Cal.; Baltimore, Md.; New Orleans, La.; Chicago, Ill.; Burlington, Vt.;
Portland, Me.; Detroit, Mich.; Port Huron, Mich.
5. The classified postal service shall embrace the several post-offices
where the officials are as many as fifty, now the following: Albany,
N.Y.; Baltimore, Md.; Boston, Mass.; Brooklyn, N.Y.; Buffalo, N.Y.;
Chicago, Ill.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.;
Indianapolis, Ind.; Jersey City, N.J.; Kansas City, Mo.; Louisville,
Ky.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Newark, N.J.; New Haven,
Conn.; New Orleans, La.; New York City, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.;
Pittsburg, Pa.; Providence, R.I.; Rochester, N.Y.; St. Louis, Mo.;
St. Paul, Minn.; San Francisco, Cal.; Washington, D.C.
6. Whenever within the meaning of said act the clerks and persons
employed by the collector, naval officer, surveyor, and appraisers, or
either of them, in any customs district shall be as many as fifty, any
existing classification for the customs service shall apply thereto, and
when the number of clerks and persons employed at any post-office shall
be as many as fifty any existing classification of those in the postal
service shall apply thereto; and thereafter the Commission will provide
for examinations for filling the vacancies at said offices, and the
rules will be applicable thereto.