Until promotion regulations shall have been applied to a classified post-office promotions therein may be made upon any test of fitness determined upon by the postmaster, if not disapproved by the Commission:  Provided, That no employee shall be promoted to any grade he could not enter by appointment under the minimum age limitation applied thereto by Postal Rule II, clause 2.

  POSTAL RULE VI.

  1.  Transfers may be made as follows: 

  (a) From one classified post-office to another, upon requisition
  of the Postmaster-General.

  (b) From any classified post-office to the Post-Office
  Department, and from the Post-Office Department to any classified
  post-office, upon requisition of the Postmaster-General.

2.  No person may be transferred as herein authorized until the Commission shall have certified to the officer making the transfer requisition that the person whom it is proposed to transfer has passed an examination to test fitness for the place to which he is to be transferred, and that such person has been at least six months next preceding the date of the certificate in the classified service of the Department or post-office from which the transfer is to be made.

  POSTAL RULE VII.

Upon the requisition of a postmaster the board of examiners for his office shall certify for reinstatement, 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 in said office.

  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.