.

7. Immediately after the general averages in an examination shall have
been ascertained each competitor shall be notified that he has passed or
has failed to pass.

8. If a competitor fail to pass, he may, with the consent of the
Commission, be allowed reexamination at any time within six months from
the date of failure without filing a new application; but a competitor
failing to pass, desiring to take again the same examination, must, if
not allowed reexamination within six months from the date of failure,
make in due form a new application therefor.

9. No person who has passed an examination shall, while eligible on the
register supplied by such examination, be reexamined, unless he shall
furnish evidence satisfactory to the Commission that at the time of his
examination he was, because of illness or other good cause, incapable of
doing himself justice in said examination.

10. The term of eligibility to appointment under the copyist and the
clerk examinations shall be one year from the day on which the name of
the eligible is entered on the register. The term of eligibility under a
supplementary or a special examination shall be determined by the
Commission, but shall not be less than one year.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VII.

1. Vacancies in the classified departmental service, unless among the
places excepted from examination, if not filled by either promotion or
transfer, shall be filled in the following manner:

(_a_) The appointing officer shall, in form and manner to be
prescribed by the Commission, request the certification to him of the
names of either males or females eligible to a certain place then
vacant.

(_b_) If fitness for the place to be filled is tested by
competitive examination, the Commission shall certify the names of three
males or three females, these names to be those of the eligibles who,
standing higher in grade than any other three eligibles of the same sex
on the list of eligibles from which certification is to be made, have
not been certified three times to the officer making the requisition:
_Provided_, That if upon any register from which certification is
to be made there are the names of eligibles who have, under section 1754
of the Revised Statutes, claim of preference in civil appointments, the
names of such eligibles shall be certified before the names of other
eligibles higher in grade. The Commiss