ths, must be examined for promotion.

REGULATION 2.

The examination must be held upon such subjects as in the opinion
of the board of examiners, with the approval of the Commission, the
general nature of the business of the office and the special nature
of the positions to be filled may require. In grading the competitors
due weight must be given to the efficiency with which the several
competitors shall have performed their duties in the office; but none
who shall fail to attain a minimum standard of 75 per cent in the
written examination shall be certified for promotion.

REGULATION 3.

The whole list of eligibles from which the promotion is to be made shall
be certified to the nominating officer.

REGULATION 4.

Any person employed in any of the offices to which these regulations
apply may be transferred without examination, after service of six
months consecutively since January 16, 1883, from one office to a
class no higher in another office, upon certification by the board of
examiners that he has passed an examination for the class in which he
is doing duty, and with the consent of the heads of the respective
offices and the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.

REGULATION 5.

The Civil Service Commission may at any time amend these regulations
or substitute other regulations therefor.

The foregoing regulations are adopted and approved.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the
Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third
section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved
January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement
of the executive civil service is hereby amended and promulgated, as
follows:

RULE IV.

1. The Civil Service Commission shall have authority to appoint the
following-named boards of civil-service examiners:

_The central board_.--This board shall be composed of seven
members, who shall be detailed from the Departments in which they may
be serving at the time of appointment for continuous service at the
office of the Civil Service Commission. Under the supervision of the
Commission, the central board shall examine and mark the papers of all
examinations for entrance to the departmental service, and also such
of the papers of examinations for entrance to either the customs or
the postal service