Bach appointing officer in the classified departmental service shall
  report to the Commission—­

  (a) Every probational and every absolute appointment made by him,
  and every appointment made by him under any exception to examination
  authorized by Departmental Rule II, clause 3.

  (b) Every refusal by him to make an absolute appointment and
  every refusal or neglect to accept an appointment in the classified
  service under him.

  (c) Every transfer within and into the classified service under
  him.

  (d) Every assignment of a person to the performance of the duties
  of a class or place to which such person was not appointed.

  (e) 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.

  (f) Every restoration to the classified service under him of any
  person who may have been separated therefrom by dismissal or
  resignation.

  CUSTOMS RULES.

  CUSTOMS RULE I.

1.  The classified customs service shall include the officers, clerks, and other persons in the several customs districts classified under the provisions of section 6 of the act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883.

2.  Whenever the officers, clerks, and other persons in any customs district number as many as fifty, any existing classification of the customs service made by the Secretary of the Treasury under section 6 of the act of January 16, 1883, shall apply thereto, and thereafter the Commission shall provide examinations to test the fitness of persons to fill vacancies in said customs district and these rules shall be in force therein.  Every revision of the classification of any customs office under section 6 of the act above mentioned, and every inclusion within the classified customs service of a customs district, shall be reported to the President.

  CUSTOMS RULE II.

  1.  To test fitness for admission to the classified customs service,
  examinations shall be provided as follows: 

  Clerk examination[18]—­This examination shall not include more
  than the following subjects: 

  (a) Orthography.

  (b) Copying.

  (c) Penmanship.

  (d) Arithmetic—­fundamental rules, fractions, percentage,
  interest, and discount.

  (e) Elements of bookkeeping and of accounts.

  (f) Elements of the English language.

  (g) Letter writing.

  (h) Elements of the geography, history, and government of the
  United States.

  Law-clerk examination.—­This examination shall not include more
  than the following subjects: