of all
other competitors whose general average is not less than 70 per cent,
shall be entered upon the register of persons eligible to the class or
place to test fitness for which the examination was held.

7. The grade of each competitor shall be expressed by the whole number
nearest the general average attained by him, and the grade of each
eligible shall be noted upon the register of eligibles in connection
with his name. When two or more eligibles are of the same grade,
preference in certification shall be determined by the order in which
their application papers were filed.

8. There shall be a register of eligibles for each State and Territory,
and the names of all the eligibles of any State or Territory shall be
entered upon the register for that State or Territory. The eligibles of
the District of Columbia shall be entered, according to their election,
upon the register of the State of Maryland or upon that of the State of
Virginia.

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

10. If a competitor fail to pass, he may, with the consent of the
Commission, be allowed a reexamination at any time within six months
from the date of failure without filing a new application; but if such
reexamination be not allowed within that time he shall not be again
examined without making in due form a new application.

11. No eligible shall be allowed reexamination during the term of his
eligibility unless he shall furnish evidence satisfactory to the
Commission that at the time of his examination, because of illness or
other good cause, he was incapable of doing himself justice in said
examination.

12. The term of eligibility shall be such as the Commission may by
regulation determine, but shall not be less than one year from the day
on which the name of the eligible is entered upon the register:
_Provided_, That for public and sufficient reasons the Commission
shall have authority to extend the term of eligibility of the eligibles
on the register of any State or Territory for such period, not exceeding
one year, as it may deem necessary, without correspondingly extending
the term of the eligibles on the registers of the other States and
Territories as to which the same reasons do not exist.

RAILWAY MAIL RULE IV.

1. All vacancies in the classified railway mail service above class 1,
unless among the places except