assert that he is not disqualified under section. 8 of the civil-service
act, which is as follows:

"That no person habitually using intoxicating beverages to excess shall
be appointed to or retained in any office, appointment, or employment to
which the provisions of this act are applicable."

No person dismissed from the public service for misconduct shall be
admitted to examination within two years thereafter, and no person not
absolutely appointed or employed after probation shall be admitted to
an examination within one year thereafter.

2. No person under enlistment in the Army or Navy of the United States
shall be examined under these rules, except for some place requiring
special qualifications, and with the consent in writing of the head of
the Department under which he is enlisted.

3. The Commission may, by regulations subject to change at any time by
the President, declare the kind and measure of ill health, physical
incapacity, misrepresentation, and bad faith which may properly exclude
any person from the right of examination, grading, or certification
under these rules. It may also provide for medical certificates of
physical capacity in the proper cases, and for the appropriate
certification of persons so defective in sight, speech, hearing, or
otherwise as to be apparently disqualified for some of the duties of
the part of the service which they seek to enter.


RULE XII.