POSTAL RULE VIII.
Each postmaster in the classified postal service shall report to the
board of examiners--
(_a_) Every probational and every absolute appointment, and every
appointment under any exception to examination authorized by Postal Rule
II, clause 5, made in his office.
(_b_) Every refusal to make an absolute appointment in his office
and every refusal or neglect to accept an appointment in the classified
service under him.
(_c_) Every transfer into the classified service under him.
(_d_) Every separation from the classified service under him, and
whether the separation was caused by dismissal, resignation, or death.
Places excepted from examination are within the classified service.
(_e_) Every restoration to the classified service under him of any
person who may have been separated therefrom by dismissal or
resignation.
These rules shall take effect March 1, 1888.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
[Footnote 18: Storekeepers shall be classed as clerks, and vacancies in
that class shall be filled by assignment.]
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., March 1, 1888_.
In the exercise of authority vested in the President by the seventeen
hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes to prescribe
such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service
of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof and
ascertain the fitness of each applicant in respect to age, health,
character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of the service into
which he seeks to enter, I hereby direct that the officers, clerks, and
other employees of the United States Civil Service Commission, now
authorized or that may hereafter be authorized by law, shall be arranged
in the following classes, viz:
Class A, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of
less than $1,000 per annum.
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