INDIAN RULE III.

1.  The papers of every examination shall be marked under regulations made by the Commission.  Bach competitor shall be graded on a scale of 100, according to the general average determined by the markings.

2.  Immediately after the general average shall have been ascertained each competitor shall be notified that he has passed or has failed to pass.

3.  A competitor who has failed to pass an examination may, with the consent of the Commission, be allowed reexamination at any time within six months from the date of failure without filing a new application; but if he be not allowed reexamination within six months he shall be required to file a new application before being again examined.

4.  No eligible shall be allowed reexamination during the period of his eligibility unless he shall furnish satisfactory evidence to the Commission that at the time of his examination, because of illness or other good cause, he was incapable of doing himself justice; and his rating on such reexamination shall cancel and be a substitute for his rating on his former examination.

5.  All competitors whose claim to preference under section 1754 of the Revised Statutes have been allowed by the Commission who attain a general average of 65 per cent or over, and all other competitors who attain a general average of 70 per cent or over, shall be eligible for appointment to the place for which they were examined.  The names of all the competitors thus rendered eligible shall be entered in the order of grade on the proper register of eligibles.

6.  When two or more eligibles are of the same grade, preference in certification shall be determined by the order in which the application papers are filed.

7.  For the Indian service there shall be four districts and a separate register of eligibles for each grade of examination for each district, the names of males and females being listed separately on each register.  The districts shall be comprised as follows:  No. 1, of the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming; No. 2, of the States of Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and that part of California lying north of the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude, and the Territory of Utah; No. 3, of that part of California lying south of the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude, the Territories of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, the Indian Territory, and the States of Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas; No. 4, of all the States of the United States not embraced in any of the foregoing districts, together with the District of Columbia.  Upon the written request of any eligible his name shall be entered upon the register of any one or more of the districts other than that in which he resides:  Provided, That he shall state in writing his willingness to accept service wherever assigned in any such district.