e 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 XVI.

1. Whenever any officer having the power of appointment or employment
shall so request, there shall be certified to him by the Commission or
the proper examining board four names for the vacancy specified, to be
taken from those graded highest on the proper register of those in his
branch of the service and remaining eligible, regard being had to any
right of preference and to the apportionment of appointments to States
and Territories; and from the said four a selection shall be made for
the vacancy. But if a person is on both a general and a special register
he need be certified from the former only, at the discretion of the
Commission, until he has remained two months upon the latter.

2. These certifications for the service at Washington shall be made
in such order as to apportion, as nearly as may be practicable, the
original appointments thereto among the States and Territories and the
District of Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained at the
last preceding census.

3. In case the request for any such certification or any law or
regulation shall call for those of either sex, persons of that sex shall
be certified; otherwise sex shall be disregarded in such certification.

4. No person upon any register shall be certified more than four times
to the same officer in the customs or postal service or more than three
times to any Department at Washington, unless upon request of the
appointing officer; nor shall anyone remain eligible more than one year
upon any register, except as maybe provided by regulation; but these
restrictions shall not extend to examinations under clause 5 of Rule
VII. No person while remaining eligible on any register shall be
admitted to a new examination, and no person having failed upon any
examination shall within six months thereafter be admitted to another
examination without the consent of the Commission.

5. Any person appointed to or employed in any part of the classified
service who shall be dismissed or separated therefrom without fault or
delinquency on his pa