In section 2, paragraph 6, after the word “service” in line 3, insert the words “or the classified railway mail service;” in paragraph 7, line 1, strike out the word “and,” and after the word “postal” in the same line insert the words “and railway mail.”  The section as thus amended will read: 

Local boards.—­These boards shall be organized at one or more places in each State and Territory where examinations for the classified departmental service or the classified railway mail service are to be held, and shall conduct such examinations; and each shall be composed of persons in the public service residing in the State or Territory in which the board is to act.

Customs, postal, and railway mail boards.—­These boards shall conduct such examinations for the classified departmental service as the Commission may direct.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VIII.

In section 1, clause (c), line 1, after the word “post-office,” insert “or to the classified railway mail service;” in line 2, after the word “from,” strike out the words “such an office” and insert “a classified post-office or the classified railway mail service.”  The clause as thus amended will read: 

(c) From the Post-Office Department to a classified post-office or to the classified railway mail service, and from a classified post-office or the classified railway mail service to the Post-Office Department, upon requisition by the Postmaster-General.

In section 2, line 6, after the word “been,” insert “in the classified railway mail service or.”  The section as thus amended will read: 

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 during at least six months preceding the date of the certificate been in the classified railway mail service or in the classified service of the Department, customs district, or post-office from which the transfer is to be made:  Provided, That no person who has been appointed from the copyist register shall be transferred to a place the salary of which is more than $900 per annum until one year after appointment.

CUSTOMS RULE III.

In section 2, clause (c), at the end of line 1, insert “and the classified railway mail service.”  The clause as thus amended will read: 

  (c) Conduct such examinations for the classified departmental
  service and the classified railway mail service as the Commission may
  direct.

POSTAL RULE II.

In section 5, at the end of clause (e) of that section, strike out the period and insert a comma, and after the comma the following: