or,
if in Washington, to the Civil Service Commission.

RULE X.

Every examining board shall keep such records and such papers on file
and make such reports as the Commission shall require, and any such
paper or record in the charge of any examining board or any officer
shall at all times be open to examination as the Commission shall
direct, and upon its request shall be forwarded to the Commission for
inspection and revision.

RULE XI.

Every application, in order to entitle the applicant to appear for
examination or to be examined, must state under oath the facts on the
following subjects: (1) Full name, residence, and post-office address;
(2) citizenship; (3) age; (4) place of birth; (5) health and physical
capacity for the public service; (6) right of preference by reason
of military or naval service; (7) previous employment in the public
service; (8) business or employment and residence for the previous five
years; (9) education. Such other information shall be furnished as the
Commission may reasonably require touching the applicant's fitness for
the public service. The applicant must also state the number of members
of his family in the public service and where employed, and must also
assert that he is not disqualified under section 3 of the civil-service
act, which is as follows:

"That no person habitually using intoxicating beverages to excess shall
be appointed to or retained in any office, appointment, or employment
to which the provisions of this act are applicable."

RULE XII.

1. Every regular application must be supported by proper certificates of
good moral character, health, and physical and mental capacity for doing
the public work, the certificates to be in such form and number as the
regulations of the Commission shall provide; but no certificate will be
received which is inconsistent with the tenth section of the
civil-service act.

2. No one shall be entitled to be examined for admission to the
classified postal service if under 16 or over 35 years of age, or to
the classified customs service or to the classified departmental service
if under 18 or over 45 years of age; but no one shall be examined for
appointment to any place in the classified customs service, except
that of clerk or messenger, who is under 21 years of age; but these
limitations of age shall not apply to honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors of the last war who are otherwise duly qualified.

RULE XIII.

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