6. When a vacancy occurs in the office of collector of the customs,
naval officer, appraiser, or surveyor of the customs in the customs
districts of New York, Boston and Charlestown, Baltimore, San
Francisco, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Vermont (Burlington), Oswego,
Niagara, Buffalo Creek, Champlain, Portland and Falmouth, Corpus
Christi, Oswegatchie, Mobile, Brazos de Santiago (Brownsville), Texas
(Galveston, etc.), Savannah, Charleston, Chicago, or Detroit, the
Secretary of the Treasury shall ascertain if any of the subordinates in
the customs districts in which such vacancy occurs are suitable persons
qualified to discharge efficiently the duties of the office to be
filled; and if such persons be found he shall certify to the President
the name or names of those subordinates, not exceeding three, who in
his judgment are best qualified for the position, from which the
President will make the nomination to fill the vacancy; but if no such
subordinate be found qualified, or if the nomination be not confirmed,
the nomination will be made at the discretion of the President.
Vacancies occurring in such positions in the customs service in the
said districts as are included in the subjoined classification will
be filled in accordance with the rules.
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