part of the service
not within the provisions regulating apportionment to a part of the
service within said provisions, and the transfer is one which under the
provisions of this rule may be allowed without examination, such person
shall be required precedent to his transfer to file a statement under
oath setting forth the same facts, accompanied by the same certificates
or vouchers relating to residence, as may be required in an application
for examination.

RULE XI.

1. In pursuance of the requirements of section 7 of the civil-service
act, competitive tests or examinations shall, as far as practicable and
useful, be established to test fitness for promotion in any part of the
civil service of the United States which has been or may hereafter be
classified under the civil-service act.

2. The details regulating promotions shall be formulated by the
Commission after consultation with the heads of the several Departments,
bureaus, or offices. It shall be the duty of the head of each
Department, bureau, or office when such regulations have been formulated
to promulgate the same, and any amendments or revocations thereof shall
be approved by the Commission before going into effect.

3. The Commission shall, upon the nomination of the head of each
Department, bureau, or office, designate and select a suitable number of
persons, not less than three, in said Department, bureau, or office to
be members of a board of promotion. In the Departments, bureaus, or
offices in Washington and in all other offices the members of any board
of examiners shall not all be adherents of one political party when
persons of other political parties are available and competent to serve
upon said board.

4. Until the regulations herein authorized have been approved for any
Department, bureau, or office in which promotion regulations approved by
the Commission are not in force promotions therein may be made from one
class to another class which is in the same grade and from one grade to
another grade upon any test of fitness, not disapproved by the
Commission, which may be determined upon by the promoting officer:
_Provided_, That no promotion of a person shall be made, except
upon examination provided by the Commission, from one class to another
class or from one grade to another grade if for original entrance to
said class or grade to which promotion is proposed th