tions made by the Commission in
accordance herewith have been applied to a classified Department,
customs office, or post-office, promotions therein may be made upon any
test of fitness determined upon by the promoting officer. And in any
classified Department, customs office, or post-office in which
promotions are made under examinations as herein provided the Commission
may, in special session, if the exigencies of the service require such
action, provide noncompetitive examinations for promotion.

RULE XIX.

There are excepted from examination the following: (1) The confidential
clerk or secretary of any head of a Department or office; (2) cashiers
of collectors; (3) cashiers of postmasters; (4) superintendents of
money-order divisions in post-offices; (5) the direct custodians of
money for whose fidelity another officer is under official bond, and
disbursing officers having the custody of money, who give bonds; but
these exceptions shall not extend to any official below the grade of
assistant cashier or teller; (6) persons employed exclusively in the
secret service of the Government, or as translators or interpreters or
stenographers; (7) persons whose employment is exclusively professional,
but medical examiners are not included among such persons; (8) chief
clerks, deputy collectors, deputy naval officers, deputy surveyors of
customs, and superintendents or chiefs of divisions or bureaus. But no
person so excepted shall be either transferred, appointed, or promoted,
unless to some excepted place, without an examination under the
Commission, which examination shall not take place within six months
after entering the service.

RULE XXI.

1. No person, unless excepted under Rule XIX, shall be admitted into the
classified civil service from any place not within said service without
an examination and certification under the rules, with this exception,
that any person who shall have been an officer for one year or more last
preceding in any Department or office in a grade above the classified
service thereof may be transferred or appointed to any place in the
service of the same without examination.

2. No person who has passed only a limited examination under clause 4 of
Rule VII for the lower classes or grades in the departmental or customs
service shall be appointed or be promoted within two years after
appointment to any position giv