rably discharged from the
military or naval service of the United States, and the widows and
orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors, shall be exempt from such
examinations.

The Commission may make regulations, applying them to any part of the
classified service, under which regulations all examinations for
promotion therein shall be conducted and all promotions be made; but
until regulations in accordance herewith have been applied to any part
of the classified service promotions therein shall be made in the manner
provided by the rules applicable thereto. And in any part of the
classified service in which promotions are made under examination as
herein provided the Commission may in special cases, if the exigencies
of the service require such action, provide noncompetitive examinations
for promotion.

Persons who were in the classified civil service on July 16, 1883, and
persons who have been since that date or may be hereafter put into that
service by the inclusion of subordinate places, clerks, and officers,
under the provisions of section 6 of the act to regulate and improve the
civil service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883, shall be
entitled to all rights of promotion possessed by persons of the same
class or grade appointed after examination under the act referred to
above.

7. No question in any examination shall be so framed as to elicit
information concerning the political or religious opinions or
affiliations of competitors, and no discrimination in examination,
certification, or appointment shall be made by the Commission, the
examiners, or the appointing or nominating officer in favor of or
against any applicant, competitor, or eligible because of his political
or religious opinions or affiliations. The Commission, the examiners,
and the appointing or nominating officer shall discountenance all
disclosures of such opinions or affiliations by or concerning any
applicant, competitor, or eligible; and any appointing or nominating
officer who shall make inquiries concerning or in any other way attempt
to ascertain the political or religious opinions or affiliations of any
eligible, or who shall discriminate in favor of or against any eligible
because of the eligible's political or religious opinions or
affiliations, shall be dismissed from office.

8. Every applicant must state under oath--

(_a_) His full name.