on has been at least six months next
preceding the date of the certificate in the classified railway mail
service or in the classified service of the Department or post-office
from which the transfer is to be made.

Approved, January 4, 1889.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

RAILWAY MAIL RULES.

RAILWAY MAIL RULE I.

The classified railway mail service shall include all the officers,
clerks, and other persons in that service 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.

RAILWAY MAIL RULE II.

1. To test fitness for admission to the classified railway mail service
the following examinations shall be provided:

_Clerk examination_,--This examination shall include not more than
the following subjects:

(_a_) Orthography.

(_b_) Copying.

(_c_) Penmanship.

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

(_e_) Letter writing.

(_f_) The geography of the United States, and especially of the
State or railway mail division in which the applicant resides.

(_g_) The railway systems of the State or railway mail division in
which the applicant resides.

(_h_) Reading addresses.

_Other competitive examinations_.--Such other competitive
examinations as the Commission may from time to time deem necessary.

_Noncompetitive examinations_.--Such examinations may, with the
approval of the Commission, be held under conditions stated in General
Rule III, clause 2.

2. No person shall be examined for the railway mail service if under 18
or over 35 years of age, except that any person honorably discharged
from the military or naval service of the United States by reason of
disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of
duty, and whose claim of preference under section 1754 of the Revised
Statutes has been allowed by the Commission, may be examined without
regard to his age.

3. Any person desiring examination for admission to the classified
railway mail service must, in his own handwriting, make request for a
blank form of application, which request, and also his application,
shall be addressed as follows: "United States Civil Service Commission,
Washington, D.C."

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

5. Exceptions from examination in the classified railway mail service
are hereby