Apple Mail - Creating rules - Unable to drag-reorder rules as stated in 'Help'

I'm trying to create a Rule in Mail that will 'forward' all messages sent one of my Accounts to another (external) Account which is on another computer. Once the email has been transferred from my iMac to the external Account, I want the message on my original iMac to be sent to the Trash.
Having created the rule for the account in question, I find in the Rules Editor the 'Send to Trash' rule comes above (before) the 'Forward To:' rule.  So the Move to Trash rule gets executed before the 'Forward' rule. So the recepient has no idea that the info has been released.
I don't know why it does this. I create the rule to operate the other way around (I'm not daft), but it just does this.
The Online Help says, inter alia -
"If you have multiple rules, they’re applied in the order in which they appear in the list of rules. Drag a rule up or down in the list to change its order."
Despite how obvious that sounds (or however many times I have tried), I have found no way to re-order the rules in Mail by simply dragging a rule from one position to another as stated above. All I can do is delete each rule and re-enter hoping the relative positions get altered.
Is this a bug?  If so, where does one report it? Does someone have an actual solution for this?

Hi Barney. Thank you for your reply.
I think you may be correct. Perhaps it might have helped if I had attached this pic last time -
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11373233/MacDiscussions/Mail%20related/Scree n%20Shot%202013-07-29%20at%2016.50.36.png
I read the instructions as sending messages to the Trash before executing the forwarding instruction.  Which seemed to be a bit of a non sequiteur. Anyway, it did work - after a fashion.  In my daughters account there were 10 to 20 messages to be forwarded.  She got sent over 200 from mine,and my wife's account too for some reason. So it seems I'm going to need to do some further reading on this subject.
Incidentally, I very recently managed to reverse the two actions by simply deleting the first one then re-doing it. Didn't work last week when I tried it, kept be generated in the same order - but it did just now.  Weird.
Anyway, thanks again.

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