US Presidency
1888

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