...enter or be promoted in either of the said classes now existing, or that may be arranged hereunder pur-suant to said rules, until he has passed an examination,...military or naval service any preference conferred by ... [Section 1754] ... of the Revised Statutes, nor to take from the President any authority not inconsistent...

...enter or be promoted in either of the said classes now existing, or that may be arranged hereunder pursuant to said rules, until he has passed an examination,...from the military or naval service any preference conferrd by the seventeen hundred and fiftyfourth section of the Revised Statutes l nor to take from...

...enter or be promoted in either of the said classes now existing, or that may be arranged hereunder pursuant to said rules, until he has passed an examination,...preference conferred by the seventeen hundred and fiftv-fourth section of the. Revised Statutes, nor to take from the President any authority not inconsistent...

...res., Mar. 3, 1865), provides that: Section 7 of the civil-service act (22 Stat. 406) provides that "nothing herein contained shall be construed to take...and fifty-fourth section of the Revised Statutes." Preference under the statute is confined to entrance into the civil service and does not apply in examinations...

...veterans under existing statutes were safeguarded in a part of section 7, which read as follows: ..."But nothing herein contained shall be construed to take...and fifty-fourth section of the Revised Statutes..." In the First Annual Report of the Civil Service Commission, it expressly states that "every provision...

...enter or be promoted in either of the said classes now existing, or that may be arranged hereunder pursuant to said rules, until he has passed an examination...exempted from such examination in conformity herewith." In accordance with this provision employees in the classified service must pass an examination given...

...classes now existing, or tluit may he arranged hereunder pursuant to snid rules, until he has parsed an examination, or is shown to be specially exempted from such examination in conformity herewith. Rut nothing herein contained shall be construed to take from those honornbly discharged from the military...

...enter or be promoted in either of the said classes now existing, or that may he arranged hereumler pursuant to said rules, until he has passed an examination, or is shown to he specially exempted from such examination in conformity herewith. But nothing herein contained shall...

...clause of the act (Sec. 7) which prohibits the employment of any person in a "classified" position "until he has passed an examination, or is shown to...exempted from such examination in conformity herewith." Indeed this clause, the only mandatory clause in the entire act relating to selection, does not even...

...enter or be promoted in either of the said classes now existing, or that may be arranged hereunder pursuant to said rules, until he has passed an examination,...preference conferred by the seventeen hundred* and fifty- fourth section of the Revised Statutes, nor to take from the President any authority not inconsistent...