ollowing-named employees or positions which have been or may
hereafter be classified under the civil-service act shall be excepted
from the requirement of examination or registration:

_Departmental service_.--(_a_) Private secretaries or
confidential clerks (not exceeding two) to the President or to the head
of each of the eight Executive Departments; (_b_) Indians employed
in the Indian service at large, except those employed as
superintendents, teachers, teachers of industries, kindergartners, and
physicians.

_Custom-house service_.--(_a_) One cashier in each customs
district; (_b_) one chief or principal deputy or assistant
collector in each customs district whose employees number as many as
150.

_Post-office service_.--(_a_) One assistant postmaster, or
chief assistant to the postmaster, of whatever designation, at each
post-office; (_b_) one cashier of each first-class post-office when
employed under the roster title of cashier only.

_Internal-revenue service_.--One cashier in each internal-revenue
district.

RULE VII.

1. Examination papers shall be rated on a scale of 100, and the subjects
therein shall be given such relative weights as the Commission may
prescribe. After a competitor's papers have been rated he shall be duly
notified of the result thereof.

2. Every competitor who attains an average percentage of 70 or over
shall be eligible for appointment to the position for which he was
examined, and the names of eligibles shall be entered in the order of
their average percentages on the proper register of eligibles:
_Provided_, That the names of all competitors whose claims to
preference under the provisions of section 1754 of the Revised Statutes
have been allowed by the Commission, and who attain an average
percentage of 65 or over, shall be placed in the order of their average
percentages at the head of the proper register of eligibles.

3. For filling vacancies in positions for which competitive tests are
not practicable the registration of applicants shall be in the order in
which they fulfill the requirements prescribed therefor by regulation of
the Commission: _Provided_, That persons who served in the military
or naval service of the United States in the late War of the Rebellion
and were honorably discharged therefrom, and persons who have been
separated from such positions above mentioned through no delinq