ll be notified,
and upon indicating acceptance shall be appointed for a probationary
period--if a physician, for six months, and if a school employee, to
expire at the end of the then current school year--at the end of which
period, if his conduct and capacity be satisfactory to the appointing
officer, he shall receive absolute appointment; but if his conduct and
capacity be not satisfactory to said officer he shall be so notified,
and this notification shall be his discharge from the service:
_Provided_, That any probationer may be discharged during probation for
misconduct or evident unfitness or incapacity.

4. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall require the officer
under whom a probationer may be serving to carefully observe and
report in writing upon the services rendered by and the character and
qualifications of such probationer as to punctuality, industry, habits,
ability, and adaptability. These reports shall be preserved on file, and
the Commission may prescribe the form and manner in which they shall be
made.

5. In case of the sudden occurrence of a vacancy in any school during a
school term which the public interest requires to be immediately filled,
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is authorized, in his discretion,
to provide for the temporary filling of the same until a regular
appointment can be made under the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3
of this rule, and when such regular appointment is made the temporary
appointment shall terminate. All temporary appointments made under this
authority and their termination shall at once be reported to the
Commission.

INDIAN RULE V.

Until promotion regulations shall have been applied to the classified
Indian service promotions therein may be made upon any test of fitness
determined upon by the promoting officer if not disapproved by the
Commission: _Provided_, That preference in promotion in any school shall
be given to those longest in the service unless there are good reasons
to the contrary; and when such reasons prevail they shall, through the
proper channels, be reported to the Commission: _And provided further_,
That no one shall be promoted to any grade he could not enter by
original appointment under the minimum age limitation applied thereto
by Indian Rule II, section 2, and that no one shall be promoted to the
grade of physician from any other grade.

INDIAN RULE VI.

Subject to the conditions stated in Rule IV, transfers may be made af