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PDF4. No application for examination shall be accepted unless the applicant is within the age limitations fixed herein for entrance to the position to which he seeks to be appointed: Provided, That, subject to the other conditions of these rules, the application of any person whose claim of preference under the provisions of section 1754 of the Revised Statutes has been allowed by the Commission may be accepted without regard to his age. The age limitations for entrance to positions in the different branches of the service shall be as follows:
Minimum. Maximum.
Departmental service:
Page or messenger boy
14 18
Apprentice (or student)
16 20
Printer’s assistant
and messenger 18 No limit.
Positions in railway mail
service 18 35
Superintendent, physician,
supervisor, day-school
inspector, Indian
service 25 55
All other positions in the
Indian service 21 45
All other positions
20 No limit.
(These limitations shall not apply in the cases of wives of superintendents of Indian schools who apply for examination for the position of teacher or matron.)
Custom-house service:
Clerk and messenger 20 No limit. Other positions 21 No limit.
Post-office service:
Letter carrier
21 40
Other positions
18 No limit.
Government printing service:
All positions (male)
21 No limit.
All positions (female)
18 No limit.
Internal-revenue service:
Clerk
18 No limit.
Other positions
21 No limit.
5. No application shall be accepted for examination for a position which belongs to one of the recognized mechanical trades unless it shall be shown that the applicant has served as apprentice or as journeyman or as apprentice and journeyman at said trade for such periods as the Commission may prescribe.
RULE VI.
The following-named employees or positions
which have been or may
hereafter be classified under the civil-service
act shall be excepted
from the requirement of examination or
registration:
