whom it is proposed to transfer has passed an examination to test fitness for the place to which he or she is to be transferred.  No person shall be transferred to any place from which he or she may be barred by age limitations for original entrance or by the rules regulating the apportionment of appointments among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia.

  RULE VII.

Upon requisition of the Public Printer the Commission shall certify for reinstatement in the Government Printing Office, in a grade requiring no higher examination than the one in which he was formerly employed, any person who within one year next preceding the date of the requisition has through no delinquency or misconduct been separated from the classified service of the Government Printing Office:  Provided, That certification may be made, subject to the other conditions of this rule, for the reinstatement of any person who served in the military or naval service of the United States in the late War of the Rebellion and was honorably discharged therefrom, or the widow of any such person, without regard to the length of time he or she has been separated from the service.

  RULE VIII.

  The Public Printer shall report to the Commission—­

  (a) Every probational and every absolute appointment to the
  service of the Government Printing Office.

  (b) Every refusal to make an absolute appointment and the reason
  therefor, and every declination of an appointment.

  (c) Every separation from the service of the Government Printing
  Office and the cause of such separation, whether death, resignation, or
  dismissal.

Approved: 

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.—­EXECUTIVE ORDER WITHDRAWING ENGINEERS AND ASSISTANT ENGINEERS FROM THE LIST OF PLACES TO BE FILLED BY NONCOMPETITIVE EXAMINATION.

So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c), as provides for the appointment of engineers and assistant engineers by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked, and hereafter engineers and assistant engineers will be appointed by competitive examination.

Approved, June 25, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

In the exercise of the power vested in him by the Constitution, by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and the act entitled “An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States,” approved January 16, 1883, the President hereby makes and promulgates the following rule to cancel and be in lieu of Customs Rule V of the Revised Civil-Service Rules: 

  CUSTOMS RULE V.

  1.  Until promotion regulations have been applied to a classified customs
  district the following promotions may be made therein at any time after
  absolute appointment: