ade.

3. Upon requisition of the proper officer and the certificate of the
Commission transfer may be made without examination from the office of
the President of the United States, after continuous service therein for
the two years next preceding the date of said requisition, to any
position classified under the civil-service act, if in said position
there is required, in the judgment of the Commission, the performance of
the same class of work that is required to be performed in the position
from which transfer is proposed.

4. Transfer shall not be made from an excepted position to a position
not excepted: _Provided_, That a person holding an excepted
position at the time said position is classified under the civil-service
act, or a person holding an excepted position which he entered prior to
the President's order of November 2, 1894, may, subject to the other
conditions and provisions of this rule, be transferred to a position not
excepted.

5. Transfer shall not be made from a position not classified under the
civil-service act to a classified position: _Provided_, That a
person who by promotion or transfer from a classified position has
entered a position appointment to which is made by the President by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, and has served continuously
therein from the date of said promotion or transfer, may be transferred
from said Presidential appointment to the position from which he was so
transferred or to any position to which transfer could be made
therefrom.

6. Transfer shall not be made from a position outside the District of
Columbia to a position within the District of Columbia except upon the
certificate of the Commission, subject to the other conditions and
provisions of this rule.

7. Any person who has been transferred from a classified position to
another classified position may be retransferred to the position in
which he was formerly employed or to any position to which transfer
could be made therefrom without regard to the limitations of this rule.

8. All transfers herein authorized shall be made only after the issuance
by the Commission of the certificates therefor, except those which may
be specifically exempted from such condition by regulation of the
Commission.

9. Whenever a person is proposed for transfer from one branch of the
service to another branch of the service and from a