US Presidency
1888

A person appointed from the clerk register or from any supplementary or special register to a place the salary of which is $ 900 or less may, upon any test of fitness determined upon by the promoting officer, be promoted at any time after probational appointment to any place the salary of which is $ 1,000 per annum. 4. Other promotions may be made upon any tests of fitness determined upon by the promoting officer. 5. The provisions of clauses 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this rule shall become null and void in any part of the classified departmental service is soon as promotion regulations shall have been applied thereto under General Rule III, clause 6. DEPARTMENTAL RULE X.