accordance with the provisions of Departmental Rule IX, and the order of the Secretary of War of March 2, 1892, or such other and further orders as the said Secretary may make not inconsistent with the civil-service rules and the order of the President of December 4, 1891, directing the keeping of an efficiency record with a view to the placing of promotions wholly upon the basis of merit.

DECEMBER 11, 1893.

1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

GENERAL RULE III.

Amend General Rule III by striking out clause (e) of section 2.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE II.

Amend Departmental Rule II by striking out the whole of section 1 and substituting therefor the following:

"1. To test fitness for the classified departmental service there shall be a clerkcopyist examination and such supplementary and special examinations as the Commission may provide to meet the special requirements of the service. The clerkcopyist examination shall not include more than the following subjects: Orthography, copying, penmanship, arithmetic-fundamental rules, fractions, percentage, interest, and discount-elements of bookkeeping and accounts, elements of the English language, letter writing, elements of the geography, history, and Government of the United States."

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VI.

Amend Departmental Rule VI as follows:

In section 1, line one, strike out the words "copyist and of the clerk," and insert in lieu thereof the words "clerk-copyist;" and in the same line strike out the final letter in the word "examinations." In section 4 strike out all after the word "the" where it occurs the second time in line six down to and including the word " separated" in line eight, and insert in lieu thereof the words "clerk-copyist," and strike out the final letter of the word "examinations" in line nine. In section 9, line one, strike out the words "the copyist and the clerk," and insert in lieu thereof the word "all," and strike out all after the word "register" in line three to the end of the section.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VII.

Amend Departmental Rule VII as follows:

In section 1 after the word "clerk" in line three insert a hyphen and the word "copyist." In section 3 after the word "the" where it occurs the second time in line one, strike out the words "copyist or the clerk" and insert in lieu thereof the words "clerk-copyist." Strike out all of section 4 and change the numbering of the sections following as required.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE IX.

Amend Departmental Rule IX as follows:

In section 2 after the word "clerk" in line one insert a hyphen and the word "copyist." In section 3 after the word "clerk" in line one insert a hyphen and the word "copyist." Strike out the period at the end of section 5 and insert in lieu thereof a comma, and add to the section the following: "But the provisions of clause 1 of this rule shall cease to be operative when, by reason of the consolidation of the clerk and copyist examinations, there shall no longer be any persons in the departmental service to whom they apply."

POSTAL RULE IV.

Postal Rule IV is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section: "4. In case of the sudden occurrence of a vacancy in a position within the classified service of any post-office which the public interest requires shall be immediately filled, and which can not be so filled by certification from the eligible registers, such vacancy may be filled by temporaty appointment until a regular appointment can be made under the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of this rule: Provided, Such tem

porary appointment shall in no case continue longer than ninety days: And provided further, That no person shall serve more than ninety days in any one year under such temporary appointment. Every such temporary appointment, and also the discontinuance of the same, shall at once be reported to the Commission." Approved, January 5, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VII.

Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section: "9. In case of the sudden occurrence of a vacancy in the position of observer in the Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture which the public interest requires shall be immediately filled, and which can not be so filled by certification from the eligible registers of the Commission, the Secretary of Agriculture may fill such vacancy by temporary appointment until a regular appointment can be made under the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of this rule, provided such temporary appointment shall in no case continue longer than ninety days. Every such temporary appointment and the discontinuance of the same shall at once be reported to the Commission."

Approved, January 5, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE ORDER WITHDRAWING FISH-CULTURISTS FROM THE LIST OF PLACES TO BE FILLED BY NONCOMPETITIVE EXAMINATION.

So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (d), as provides for the appointment of fish-culturists upon noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked, and hereafter fish-culturists will be appointed upon competitive examination. GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 20, 1894.

AMENDMENT TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES

SPECIAL INDIAN RULE No. 1.

Exceptions from examination are hereby made as follows: One superintendent, and the necessary teachers, not exceeding four in number, for the organization and equipment of a normal school to be established at Albuquerque, N. Mex.; this rule to expire by limitation six months after the date of its approval.

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 6, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

So much of clause 6 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1, providing for exceptions from examination in the office of the Secretary in the Department of Agriculture, as excepts "clerk to act as appointment clerk," is hereby revoked, and that position will hereafter be treated as subject to competitive examination.

AMENDMENT TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Section 6 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by striking from the list of excepted places in the Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture enumerated therein, the following: The three professors of meteorology of highest grade.

Said section is further amended by adding thereto the following:

"Noncompetitive examinations shall be held on such dates and at such places as the Commission may from time to time determine, to test the competency of inspectors and assistant inspectors in the Bureau of Animal Industry in the Department of Agriculture, employed elsewhere than at Washington, who were so employed on the date inspectors and assistant inspectors were included in the classified service and have been continued in the service of the Department until opportunity has been provided for their noncompetitive examination. The results of such examination shall be reported by the Commission to the Secretary of Agriculture." Approved, May 1, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

AMENDMENT OF SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE No. 1.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the exceptions from examination therein made in the Department of the Treasury the following: "In the Office of the Second Auditor: One skilled laborer with duties exclusively of a carpenter and cabinetmaker.

"In the Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Custodian of proving presses and modeler."

AMENDMENT OF SPECIAL CUSTOMS RULE No. 1.

Special Customs Rule No. 1, authorizing certain exceptions from examination in the classified customs service, is hereby amended by adding to the statement of places therein excepted the following:

"In the customs district of Vermont: One deputy collector and inspector, to be stationed at Halifax during the winter, and at Quebec during the time the St. Lawrence River is open for navigation."

AMENDMENT OF RAILWAY MAIL RULE IV.

Section 2 (b) and section 6.

Railway Mail Rule IV, section 2, clause (b), of the Civil-Service Rules, is hereby amended by striking out all after the word "averages," in line 3, to and including the word "territory," in line 10, and the word "further," in line 10, so that as amended the clause will read:

"The Commission shall certify from the register of the State or Territory in which the vacancy exists the names of the three eligibles thereon having the highest averages: Provided, That if upon the register of the State or Territory in which the vacancy exists there are the names of eligibles having a claim of preference under section 1754, Revised Statutes, the names of such eligibles shall be certified before the names of other eligibles of higher grade: Provided further, That on a line on which the service does not require the full time of a clerk, and one can be employed jointly with the railroad company, the appointment may be made without examination and certification, with the consent of the Commission, upon a statement of the facts by the general superintendent; but no clerk so appointed shall be eligible for transfer or appointment to any other place in the service."

Section 6 of said rule is hereby amended by adding after the word "substitutes" in line 6 the words "resident in the counties which are supplied wholly or in part by the road on which the vacancy exists," so that as amended the section will read: "6. There may be certified and appointed in each State and Territory, in the manner provided for in this rule, such number of substitute clerks, not exceeding the ratio of one substitute to ten regular clerks, in such State or Territory as the Postmaster-General may authorize, and any vacancies occurring in class 1 in any State or Territory in which substitutes have been appointed shall be filled by the appointment thereto of those substitutes resident in the counties which are supplied wholly or in part by the road on which the vacancy exists, in the order of their appointment as substitutes, without further certification. The time during which any substitute is actually employed in the service shall be counted as a part of his probation."

GENERAL RULE III.

Section 2 of General Rule III is hereby amended by adding thereto the following clause: (h) "For the appointment of an Indian as assistant teacher in the Indian school service."

INDIAN RULE IV.

Indian Rule IV is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section: "6. Upon the nomination by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, through the Secretary of the Interior, of an Indian for appointment as assistant teacher, the Commission shall give such Indian noncompetitive examination under General Rule III, section 2, clause (h), upon passing which as the required grade he shall be certified and appointed for the probationary period provided for in section 3 of this rule, at the end of which period he shall be absolutely appointed or discharged from the service in accordance with the provisions of said section. Any Indian appointed assistant teacher as herein provided may be, any time after absolute appointment, appointed teacher upon the certification of the Commission that he has passed the teacher's examination."

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 11, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CLASSIFICATION OF THE INDIAN SERVICE AS MADE BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR APRIL 13, 1891.

[See Ninth Report, U. S. Civil Service Commission, page 70.]

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the third paragraph of section 6 of the act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883, I hereby direct the Secretary of the Interior to revise the classification of the Indian service made by him, by direction of the President, on the 13th day of April, 1891, and to include in class three of said classification assistant teachers.

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 11, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT TO CIVIL SERVICE RULES.

SPECIAL INDIAN RULE No. 1.

Special Indian Rule No. 1 is hereby amended, by adding to the places excepted from examination therein the following:

"Kindergarten teachers, to be employed as such, not exceeding twenty in numApproved, June 21, 1894.

ber."

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT TO CIVIL SERVICE RULES.

SPECIAL CUSTOMS RULE No. 1.

Special Customs Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination therein the following:

"In the customs district of Boston, office of the collector: One superintendent of warehouses.

"In the customs district of Philadelphia, office of the collector: Five chiefs of division."

Approved, June 21, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS TO CIVIL SERVICE RULES.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE II.

Departmental Rule II, clause 3 (f), is hereby amended, by adding at the end therefo the following words: "Except in the Department of Agriculture, the chiefs of the following divisions: Entomology and economic ornithology and mammalogy."

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE No. 1.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended, by dropping from among the places therein excepted from examination the following:

"In the Department of Agriculture, office of the Secretary, the assistant chiefs of the following divisions: Of entomology and of economic ornithology and mammalogy." Approved. GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 9, 1894.

AMENDMENT TO CLASSIFICATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the third paragraph of section 6 of the act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883, I hereby direct the Secretary of the Interior to revise the classification of the Department of the Interior so as to include therein the chief clerk and the assistant chief clerk at the Indian warehouse at New York.

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 25, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO. 1.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places therein excepted from examination in the Department of the Treasury the following: "In the Bureau of Statistics: One expert in mechanical designs and in diagraming commercial and financial facts."

Approved, Nov. 2, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE II.

Departmental Rule II, clause 3 (f), is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: "and of Pomology;" so that as amended the paragraph will read:

“(ƒ) Chiefs of divisions, except in the Department of Agriculture the chiefs of the following divisions: Entomology, economic ornithology and mammalogy, and pomology."

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO. 1.

Special departmental rule No. 1 is hereby amended by dropping from among the places therein excepted from examination the following:

"In the Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary: The assistant chief of the Division of Pomology."

Approved, November 2, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.