d promotions in the postal service, and shall mark such of
the examination papers for that service as the Commission may direct.
They shall also conduct such departmental examinations as the Commission
may direct.

2. No person shall be appointed an examiner until after consultation by
the Commission with the head of the Department or office in which the
person whom it desires to appoint is serving.

3. It shall be the duty of the head of any classified customs office or
post-office to promptly give written information to the Commission of
the removal or resignation from the public service, or of the inability
or refusal to act, of any examiner in his office; and on request of the
Commission such officer shall state which of the persons in his office
he regards as most competent to fill the vacancy, and shall mention
generally the qualifications of each person named by him.

4. The duties of an examiner shall be regarded as a part of his public
duties, and each examiner shall be allowed time during office hours to
perform the duties required of him.

5. The Commission may adopt regulations which shall prescribe (1) the
manner of organizing the boards of examiners, (2) the powers of each
board, and (3) the duties of the members thereof.

6. The Commission may create additional boards of examiners and may
change the membership of any board; and boards of examiners shall
perform such other appropriate duties as the Commission may impose
upon them.

RULE VI.

1. There shall be open competitive examinations for testing the fitness
of applicants for admission to the service. Such examinations shall be
practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those
matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the
persons examined to discharge the duties of the branch of the service
which they seek to enter.

2. And for the purpose of establishing in the classified service the
principle of compulsory competitive examination for promotion there
shall be, so far as practicable and useful, such examinations of a
suitable character to test the fitness of persons for promotion in the
service, and the Commission may make regulations applying them to any
classified Department, customs office, or post-office, under which
regulations examinations for promotion shall be conducted and all
promotions made; but until regula