The grade at which the applicant in this case will go upon the Register is, therefore

62.2+65+78+67+76.66=348.86.

348.86
5

=69.77, General Average.

33. To whatever number of subjects the examination may extend, the General Average will be ascertained by dividing the sum of the Standings in each of the subjects by the number of subjects.

34. Every example, though it be a case of dictation or copying, is regarded as a question under these regulations, and, although only a portion of the topics included in a subject under Rule 7 is embraced in the examination, it will, for the purpose of the marking, be treated as a subject.

COMPLAINTS AND APPEALS.

35. Complaints which show injustice or unfairness on the part of any Examining Board, or any one acting under the Commission, will be considered by the Commission, and if necessary it will revise the marking and grading on the papers, or order a new examination, or otherwise do justice in the premises.

In case any action of the Commission is desired, the complaint or appeal must specify particularly the matter complained of.

NON-COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS UNDER RULE 20.

36. In case the necessity shall exist at any office or Department for holding a non-competitive examination under Rule 20, the following conditions shall be observed:

The Commission shall be immediately notified of such necessity and of the grounds thereof, showing that it is impracticable to supply in due season for any appointment the names of persons who have passed a competitive examination, by reason of the failure of competent persons to attend and be examined, or the prevalence of contagious disease, or other sufficient cause.

37. If the Commission shall not disapprove the holding of a non-competitive examination, the Secretary of the Commission at Washington, or of the Examining Board for any post-office or customs district, shall notify for such examinations any persons whose names may be on the record, as applicants for places analogous to those to be filled, and whom the exigency of time may allow to be notified, not less in number than the vacancies and places to be provided for.

38. If the number of applicants on the record be insufficient to furnish such supply, then the Examining Board, or in its absence the Secretary, may notify other suitable persons, nominated by said Board or Secretary, upon consultation with the head of the office, who, taken together with said regular applicants notified, shall, if practicable, be not less in number than four to each place to be filled. The persons selected for appointment or employment shall be required to make oath to the proper application paper, before entering upon their official duties.

39. The non-competitive examination shall conform as nearly as practicable, in subjects, questions, and marking, to the competitive examinations of the same grade; but no person shall be appointed under such non-competitive examination whose average standing upon the first three subjects, clause 1, Rule 7, or such parts thereof as may be used, is less than 65 per centum: Provided, There are those who pass at or above that grade from whom the places can be filled.

40. The names of all the persons passing the examination shall be certified to the proper officer, and the existing vacancies shall be filled therefrom; but no person by reason of such non-competitive examination shall be appointed at any other time than during such exigency or to any other vacancy or place.

41. A record shall be kept by the local Examining Board, and by the Secretary of the Commission at Washington, of the persons thus notified, examined, and appointed, or employed, and copies of notices and the examination papers shall be preserved; and said Board shall, after each such examination and appointment, make full report to the Civil Service Commission of all the facts.

In case a majority of the Commission may not be present when an examination hereunder may need to be held at Washington, the same may be conducted under the charge of the chief examiner and any two members of the Board of Examiners.

SPECIAL EXAMINATIONS.

42. Special Boards of Examiners for special examinations under clause 5, Rule 7, for the departmental service, shall be constituted as follows: a Board of five members for the Patent Office, and Boards of three members each for the State Department, the Pension Office, the Signal Office, and the Geological Survey. Each Special Board shall mark all the papers of applicants examined for its part of the service, and shall be subject to the regulations prescribed by the Commission for the general Examining Boards as far as they are applicable.

43. Applications for any special examination must be made in the form prescribed by the Commission, and must be accompanied by certificates as required in the case of ordinary applications. The minimum limitations of age shall be the same as those prescribed by Rule 12 for the several branches of the service, but no maximum limitations shall be required except such as the Commission may from time to time prescribe.

44. Whenever a special examination is to be held, notice in writing, specifying the time and place of the examination, shall be sent to a suitable number of the applicants, in the order of their application for the same, in time to allow their attendance.

45. Each special examination shall include the subjects both obligatory and optional, approved by the Commission therefor, and no applicant shall be entered upon any Special Register of Eligibles whose general average upon the obligatory subjects shall be less than 65 per centum. Each optional subject shall be marked by itself, and entered separately upon the register.

46. A Special Record of Applicants and a Special Register of Eligibles shall be kept for each part of the service or office requiring special examinations; and when the Commission or the proper examining board shall be notified by the appointing officer of a vacancy in such office, certification shall be made to him of the names of the four persons graded highest on the Special Register of Eligibles for the same, or of a different number when good reasons, approved by the Commission, may require; and a person may be certified more than twice to the same department or office from a special register, when the Commission shall so direct. In case the notice of vacancy shall contain a request for persons having a knowledge of one or more of the optional subjects, the certification may be made of those graded highest in the subject or subjects required.

47. In case any person whose name stands on both a general and a special register shall be appointed from the former, the Commission may, in its discretion, retain him on, and certify him for appointment from the latter.

48. Applicants on the general Record, and persons on the general Register of Eligibles whose application papers claim the special knowledge required, may be notified, and if they appear shall be examined, as if special applicants; but no person so examined shall forfeit his right to the general examinations, or lose his place on any Register of Eligibles by reason of his special examination.

49. In case that competent special applicants do not apply, or do not appear for a competitive examination after suitable notice, a non-competitive examination may be held, in as near conformity as may be to the regulations provided for other non-competitive examinations for admission to the service.

SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATIONS.

50. Special supplementary examinations in subjects not enumerated in clause I, Rule 7, of which a knowledge is required in the public serv. ice, will be held in addition to the general and limited examinations for the departmental service, and when an application claims such knowledge the applicant may, without further application, be admitted to any such examination.

51. Each applicant who has passed the examination in any supplementary subject shall be placed upon the proper special supplementary register, provided such applicant has obtained the required grade in the general or limited examination, and may also be placed upon the general register according to standing in the general subjects respectively, if otherwise eligible.

52. Whenever any request for a certification shall require persons acquainted with either of these special subjects, four persons standing highest on the special supplementary register in the subjects named, or a different number, as may be ordered, shall be certified; but no person shall be certified as a law clerk who shall not have passed the general examination under clause I, Rule 7.

53. Special Boards of Examiners for supplementary examinations for the departmental service shall be constituted as follows: A board of seven persons for the French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Scandinavian languages; a board of three persons for each of the following subjects: Law, medical science, draughting, stenography (including type-writing), telegraphy, and book-keeping.

Adopted, January 16, 1885.

APPENDIX No. 4.

COMMISSIONERS, OFFICERS AND EXAMINERS.

Commissioners.

DORMAN B. EATON.
JOHN M. GREGORY.

LEROY D. THOMAN.

Chief Examiner.

CHARLES LYMAN.

Secretary.

ROBERT D. GRAHAM.

Stenographer.

JOHN T. DOYLE.

Clerk.

CHARLES FRED. ADAMS.

Messenger.

MATTHEW F. HALLORAN.

Departmental Examiners, Washington, D. C.

WILLIAM H. WEBSTER, of Interior Department, Chairman.
A. M. JUDSON, of Treasury Department, Secretary.

THEO. L. DELAND, of Treasury Department.
CHARLES C. SNOW, of Treasury Department.

OLIVER W. LONGAN, of War Department.

JOHN WILSON, of War Department.

F. E. STORM, of Navy Department.

F. A. SPRINGER, of Post-Office Department.

of Post-Office Department.

WESTON FLINT, of Interior Department.

of Department of Justice.

DAVID BREMNER, of Agricultural Department.

CHAS. FRED. ADAMS, of United States Civil Service Commission.

Special Examiners, Patent Office.

ROBERT G. DYRENFORTH.

BENJAMIN R. CATLIN.

FRANKLIN A. SEELY.

PERRY B. PIERCE.

CHARLES J. KINTNER.

Special Examiners, Pension Office.

WILLIAM H. WEBSTER.

BENJAMIN A. HARLAN.

FRANCIS E. CAMP.

Special Examiners, Army Signal Office.

CLEVELAND ABBÉ.

HENRY H. C. DUNWOODY.

ROBERT CRAIG.

Special Examiners, United States Geological Survey.

HENRY GANNETT.

GILBERT THOMPSON.

A. H. THOMPSON.

Special Examiners, Law Clerks.

F. L. CAMPBELL.

E. G. HAYWOOD.

Special Examiners, Modern Languages.

HERMAN JACOBSEN.

ERNEST SZEMELENYI.

MARY E. WILCOX.

W. E. BENDZ.

A. HEDBERG.

ROBERT L. PACKARD.

SARA C. UPTON.

Special Examiners, Medical Science.

J. B. G. BAXTER.

P. A. LOVERING.

FRANK BAKER.

Special Examiners, Topographers.

HARRY KING.

WILLIAM NAYLOR.

PHILO B. WRIGHT.

Special Examiners, Type-writing and Stenography

O. D. LADow.

CHARLES B. PARKMAN.

JULIUS E. ROCKWELL.

SINCLAIR B. SHEIBLEY.

Special Examiners, Telegraphy.

O. D. LADow.