RULE IV.

1.  All officials connected with any office where or for which any examination is to take place will give the Civil Service Commission and the chief examiner such information as may be reasonably required to enable the Commission to select competent and trustworthy examiners; and the examinations by those selected as examiners, and the work incident thereto, will be regarded as a part of the public business to be performed at such office.

2.  It shall be the duty of every executive officer promptly to inform the Commission, in writing, of the removal or discharge from the public service of any examiner in his office or of the inability or refusal of any such examiner to act in that capacity.

RULE V.

There shall be three branches of the service classified under the civil-service act (not including laborers or workmen or officers required to be confirmed by the Senate), as follows: 

1.  Those classified in the Departments at Washington shall be designated “The classified departmental service.”

2.  Those classified under any collector, naval officer, surveyor, or appraiser in any customs district shall be designated “The classified customs service.”

3.  Those classified under any postmaster at any post-office, including that at Washington, shall be designated “The classified postal service.”

4.  The classified customs service shall embrace the several customs districts where the officials are as many as fifty, now the following:  New York City, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.; Philadelphia, Pa.; San Francisco, Cal.; Baltimore, Md.; New Orleans, La.; Chicago, Ill.; Burlington, Vt.; Portland, Me.; Detroit, Mich.; Port Huron, Mich.

5.  The classified postal service shall embrace the several post-offices where the officials are as many as fifty, now the following:  Albany, N.Y.; Baltimore, Md.; Boston, Mass.; Brooklyn, N.Y.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Kansas City, Mo.; Louisville, Ky.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Newark, N.J.; New Orleans, La.; New York City, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Pittsburg, Pa.; Providence, R.I.; Rochester, N.Y.; St. Louis, Mo.; San Francisco, Cal.; Washington, D.C.

RULE VI.

1.  There shall be open competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for admission to the service.  Such examinations shall be practical in their character and, so far as may be, shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the branch of the service which they seek to enter.

2.  There shall also be competitive examinations of a suitable character to test the fitness of persons for promotion in the service.

RULE VII.

1.  The general examinations under the first clause of Rule VI for admission to the service shall be limited to the following subjects:  (1) Orthography, penmanship, and copying; (2) arithmetic—­fundamental rules, fractions, and percentage; (3) interest, discount, and elements of bookkeeping and of accounts; (4) elements of the English language, letter writing, and the proper construction of sentences; (5) elements of the geography, history, and government of the United States.