m any supplementary
or special register to a place the salary of which is $900 or less may,
upon any test of fitness determined upon by the promoting officer, be
promoted at any time after probational appointment to any place the
salary of which is $1,000 per annum.

4. Other promotions may be made upon any tests of fitness determined
upon by the promoting officer.

5. The provisions of clauses 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this rule shall become
null and void in any part of the classified departmental service as soon
as promotion regulations shall have been applied thereto under General
Rule III, clause 6.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE X.

Upon requisition of the head of a Department the Commission shall
certify for reinstatement in said Department, in a grade requiring no
higher examination than the one in which he was formerly employed, any
person who within one year next preceding the date of the requisition
has, through no delinquency or misconduct, been separated from the
classified service of that Department.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE XI.

Bach appointing officer in the classified departmental service shall
report to the Commission--

(_a_) Every probational and every absolute appointment made by him,
and every appointment made by him under any exception to examination
authorized by Departmental Rule II, clause 3.

(_b_) Every refusal by him to make an absolute appointment and
every refusal or neglect to accept an appointment in the classified
service under him.

(_c_) Every transfer within and into the classified service under
him.

(_d_) Every assignment of a person to the performance of the duties
of a class or place to which such person was not appointed.

(_e_) Every separation from the classified service under him, and
whether the separation was caused by dismissal, resignation, or death.
Places excepted from examination are within the classified service.

(_f_) Every restoration to the classified service under him of any
person who may have been separated therefrom by dismissal or
resignation.

CUSTOMS RULES.

CUSTOMS RULE I.

1. The classified customs service shall include the officers, clerks,
and other persons in the several customs districts classified under the
provisions of section 6 of the act to regulate and improve the civil
service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883.

2. Whenever the officers, clerk