shall be construed to mean any such Department, commission, or
bureau classified as above prescribed.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE II.

1. To test the fitness of applicants for admission to the classified
departmental service there shall be examinations as follows:

_Copyist examination_.--For places of $900 per annum and under.
This examination shall not include more than the following subjects:

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules, fractions, and percentage.

_Clerk examination_.--For places of $1,000 per annum and upward.
This examination shall not include more than the following subjects:

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

(_d_) Arithmetic--fundamental rules, fractions, percentage,
interest, and discount.

(_e_) Elements of bookkeeping and of accounts.

(_f_) Elements of the English language.

(_g_) Letter writing.

(_h_) Elements of the geography, history, and government of the
United States.

_Supplementary examinations_.--For places which, in the opinion of
the Commission, require, in addition to the knowledge required to pass
the copyist or the clerk examination, certain technical, professional,
or scientific knowledge, or knowledge of a language other than the
English language, or peculiar or special skill.

_Special examinations_.--For places which, in the opinion of the
Commission, require certain technical, professional, or scientific
knowledge or skill. Each special examination shall embrace, in addition
to the special subject upon which the applicant is to be tested, as many
of the subjects of the clerk examination as the Commission may decide to
be necessary to test fitness for the place to be filled.

_Noncompetitive examinations_.--For any place in the departmental
service for which the Commission may from time to time (subject to the
conditions prescribed by General Rule III, clause 2) determine that such
examinations ought to be held.

2. An applicant may take the copyist or the clerk examination and any or
all of the supplementary and special examinations provided for the
departmental service, subject to such limitations as the Commission may
by regulation prescribe; but no person whose name is on a departmental
register of eligibles shall during the period of his eligibility be
allowed reexamination unless he shall satisfy