Office promotions therein may be made
upon any test of fitness determined upon by the Public Printer if not
disapproved by the Commission.

RULE VI.

1. Transfers may be made as follows:

(_a_) From a position in the classified service of the Government
Printing Office requiring a knowledge of some mechanical trade to a
position in any one of the Executive Departments requiring a knowledge
of the same mechanical trade, upon requisition from the head of the
Department to which the transfer is to be made and the consent of the
Public Printer: _Provided_, That a person so transferred shall not
be transferred to another position in one of the Executive Departments
unless such other position requires a knowledge of the same mechanical
trade upon which the original transfer was based, nor until he has
served one year in the position to which he was originally transferred.

(_b_) From any Executive Department to the classified service of
the Government Printing Office upon requisition from the Public Printer
and the consent of the head of the Department from which the transfer is
to be made.

2. No person shall be transferred as herein authorized until after
absolute appointment and 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 or she is to be transferred. No person shall be
transferred to any place from which he or she may be barred by age
limitations for original entrance or by the rules regulating the
apportionment of appointments among the several States and Territories
and the District of Columbia.

RULE VII.

Upon requisition of the Public Printer the Commission shall certify for
reinstatement in the Government Printing Office, 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 the Government Printing Office: _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