That no employee shall be promoted to any grade he could not enter by
appointment under the minimum age limitation applied thereto by section
2 of Internal-Revenue Rule II.

INTERNAL-REVENUE RULE VI.

Transfers may be made as follows:

From one classified internal-revenue collection district to another,
from any classified internal-revenue collection district to a bureau
in the Treasury Department in which business relating to the internal
revenue is transacted, and from such a bureau in the Treasury Department
to such a district, upon the requisition of the Secretary of the
Treasury and the certification of the Commission, the appointment upon
such transfer to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the
recommendation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, if the place
to be filled by such transfer is that of storekeeper, storekeeper and
gauger, or gauger: _Provided_, That no person shall be transferred
as herein authorized who is not within the age limitations prescribed by
the civil-service rules for the place to which he is to be transferred
and who has not been absolutely appointed, or, if appointed without
civil-service examination, who has not served six months continuously
in the district or bureau from which he is to be transferred.

INTERNAL-REVENUE RULE VII.

Upon the requisition of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue the
secretary of the board of examiners for his district shall certify for
reinstatement in a grade requiring no higher examination than the one
in which he was formerly employed any person who within one year next
preceding the date of the requisition has through no delinquency or
misconduct been separated from the classified service of said district:
_Provided_, That certification may be made, subject to the other
conditions of this rule, for the reinstatement of any person who served
in the military or naval service of the United States in the late War
of the Rebellion and was honorably discharged therefrom, or the widow
of any such person, without regard to the length of time he or she has
been separated from the service.

INTERNAL-REVENUE RULE VIII.

Each collector in the classified internal-revenue service shall report
to the board of examiners--

(_a_) Every probational and every absolute appointment and every
appointment to an excepted or to an unclassified place in the
internal-revenue s