purpose shall be furnished by the Commission.

2. Every application for admission to the classified departmental
service should be addressed as follows: "United States Civil Service
Commission, Washington, D.C."

3. The date of reception and also of approval by the Commission of each
application shall be noted on the application paper.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE V.

1. The papers of all examinations for admission to or promotion in the
classified departmental service shall be marked as directed by the
Commission.

2. The Commission shall have authority to appoint the following-named
boards of examiners, which shall conduct examinations and mark
examination papers as follows:

_Central board_.--As provided for by General Rule III, clause 12.

_Special boards_.--These boards shall mark such papers of special
examinations for the classified departmental service as the Commission
may direct, and shall be composed of persons in the public service.

_Supplementary boards_.--These boards shall mark the papers of such
supplementary examinations for the classified departmental service as
the Commission may direct, and shall be composed of persons in the
public service.

_Promotion boards_.--One for each Department, of three members, and
one auxiliary member for each bureau of the Department for which the
board is to act. Unless the Commission shall otherwise direct, these
boards shall mark the papers of promotion examinations.

_Local boards_.--These boards shall be organized at one or more
places in each State and Territory where examinations for the classified
departmental service are to be held, and shall conduct such
examinations; and each shall be composed of persons in the public
service residing in the State or Territory in which the board is to act.

_Customs and postal boards_.--These boards shall conduct such
examinations for the classified departmental service as the Commission
shall direct.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VI.

1. The papers of the copyist and of the clerk examinations shall be
marked by the central board; the papers of special and supplementary
examinations shall be marked as directed by the Commission. Each
competitor in any of the examinations mentioned or referred to above
shall be graded on a scale of 100, according to the general average
determined by the marks made by the examiners on his papers.

2. The papers of