nearly as possible, the apportionment of appointments among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia as required by law: Provided, That appointments to positions at pension agencies shall not be charged to the apportionment."

Section 3, paragraph 2, is hereby amended as follows: On the second line, after the word "register," insert the following:

"Or when certification is made from any register to fill a vacancy at any pension agency.'

The paragraph as amended will read:

"When certification is made from a supplementary or special register, or the printer's assistant, or page and messenger-boy register, or when certification is made from any register to fill a vacancy at any pension agency, and there are more vacancies than one to be filled, the appointing officer may select from the three names certified more than one."

Section 6 is hereby amended as follows: Strike out the word "And" at the beginning of line 9, and on line 12, after the word "appointment," insert the following proviso:

"And provided further, That at each pension agency at the time of the quarterly payment of pensions such temporary appointments may be made as the needs of the service may demand, for a period not to exceed 30 days, which appointments shall not be extended or renewed until the date of the next quarterly payment of pen

sions."

The section as amended will read:

"6. In case of the occurrence of a vacancy in any department 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, such vacancy may be filled by temporary appointment outside the civil service until a regular appointment can be made under the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of this rule: Provided, That such temporary appointment shall in no case continue longer than ninety days, and shall expire by limitation at the end of that time: Provided further, That no person shall serve longer than the period herein prescribed in any one year under such temporary appointment. The year limitation in regard to reappointment shall begin to run on the date of the original appointment: And provided further, That at each pension agency at the time of the quarterly payment of pensions such temporary appointments may be made as the needs of the service may demand, for a period not to exceed thirty days, which appointment shall not be extended or renewed until the date of the next quarterly payment of pensions. Every such temporary appointment, and the discontinuance of the same, shall at once be reported to the Commission." Approved, July 15, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended by striking out the whole of the paragraph in section 3, Department of the Interior, relating to the Geological Survey and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

"In the Geological Survey, professional experts and special agents, employed for short periods at per diem salaries, and paid only when actually employed." Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 15, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Executive orders heretofore issued designating the places to be filled by noncompetitive examination under clause (c) of General Rule III are hereby amended so as to include among those places in the Department of the Interior, in the Geological Survey, the editor and the photographer. Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 15, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE I.

Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended by adding to the list of places excepted from examination in the Treasury Department:

"In the Bureau of Immigration: One statistician and stenographer, with power to act as immigrant inspector."

Approved, July 30, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Departmental Rule IX, clause 1, paragraph two, is hereby amended by striking out in line one the words "appointed from the appropriate register to" and substituting therefor the word "occupying;" by adding before the word "messenger," in line two, the following: "engineers, assistant engineers, firemen;" by striking out in line three the words "below the positions of clerk and copyist" and substituting therefor the words "the educational test for appointment to which is below the grade of the educational test required for the position of clerk or copyist;" and by adding in line seven, after the words "printers' assistants," the words “and skilled helpers. As amended the paragraph will read as follows:

"Any person occupying the position of engineer, assistant engineer, fireman, messenger, assistant messenger, watchman, or other subordinate position the educational test for appointment to which is below the grade of the educational test required for the position of clerk or copyist may, at any time after absolute appointment, if not barred by age limitations, be transferred to any other of said subordinate positions, but shall not be promoted to the position of clerk or copyist, or to any place the duties of which are clerical: Provided, That printers' assistants and skilled helpers in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department, shall only be eligible for transfer to the grade of operator in that Bureau." Approved, August 5, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE ORDER WITHDRAWING COMPOSITORS AND PRESSMEN 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 (c), as provides for the appointment of compositors and pressmen by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked, and hereafter compositors and pressmen will be appointed by competitive examination. GROVER CLEVELAND.

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 16, 1895.

AMENDMENT TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Government Printing Office Rule II, section 2, is hereby amended by omitting in line 1, after the words "under 21," the words "or over 45," and in line 2, after the words "under 18," the words "or over 35."

The section as amended will read as follows:

"2. Any male citizen of the United States not under 21 years of age, and any female citizen not under 18 years of age, may be examined for positions in the Government Printing Office."

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 22, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended by striking out from the list of places excepted from examination in all the departments bookbinders. Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, September 5, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT TO CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended to except from examination in the Department of the Treasury, in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, forty-three compositors and eight pressmen now temporarily employed under authority of the sundry civil act of March 2, 1895, such employment to cease prior to March 14, 1896. Vacancies occurring in this force shall be filled only by competitive examination under the civil-service rules.

Approved, September 16, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT TO POSTAL RULE I.

Section 2 of Postal Rule I is hereby amended, by inserting after the word "thereto," in line 6, the following:

"And whenever, by order of the Postmaster-General, any post-office shall be consolidated with, and made part of, another post-office where free delivery is established, all the employees of the office thus consolidated, whose names appear on the roster of said office approved by the Post-Office Department, and including the postmaster thereof, shall, from the date of said order, be employees of said free-delivery office, and the person holding, on the date of said order, the position of postmaster at the office thus consolidated with said free-delivery office may be assigned to any position therein and given any appropriate designation under the classification act which the Postmaster-General may direct;"

The section as amended shall read as follows:

"2. The classification of the postal service made by the Postmaster-General under section 6 of the act of January 16, 1883, is hereby extended to all free-delivery postoffices; and hereafter whenever any post-office becomes a free-delivery office the said classification or any then existing classification made by the Postmaster-General under said section and act shall apply thereto; and whenever, by order of the PostmasterGeneral, any post-office shall be consolidated with and made a part of another postoffice where free-delivery is established, all the employees of the office thus consoldated, whose names appear on the roster of said office approved by the Post-Office Department, including the postmaster thereof, shall, from the date of said order, be employees of said free-delivery office, and the person holding, on the date of said order, the position of post-master at the office thus consolidated with said free-delivery office may be assigned to any position therein and given any appropriate designation under the classification act which the Postmaster-General may direct; and the Civil Service Commission shall provide examinations to test the fitness of persons to fill vacancies in all free-delivery post-offices, and these rules shall be in force therein; but this shall not include any post-office made an experimental free-delivery office under the authority contained in the appropriation act of March 3, 1891. Every revision of the classification of any post-office under section 6 of the act of January 16, 1883, and every inclusion of a post-office within the classified postal service shall be reported to the President."

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 6, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1, clause 8, is hereby amended by striking from the list of places excepted from examination in the Department of Labor statistical experts and temporary experts.

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 2, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c), as provides for the appointment of special agents in the Department of Labor by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked.

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 2, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

1896.

AMENDMENT TO INTERNAL-REVENUE RULE IV.

Section 5 of Internal-Revenue Rule IV is hereby amended by adding at the end of the first paragraph thereof the following:

"And provided further, That whenever an emergency shall arise requiring that a vacant position in any internal-revenue district shall be filled before a certificate can be issued by the Commission, and an appointment made thereto in the manner provided in these rules, such position may be filled without regard to the provisions of these rules by temporary appointment not to exceed 15 days, and only for such

period as may be required for the execution of the necessary details of an appointment thereto in accordance with said provisions, but no person shall receive such emergency appointment, who, within the 60 days next previous thereto, has been separated from a position in said district to which he was temporarily appointed under the provisions of this section."

The section as amended shall read as follows:

"5. In the case of the occurrence of a vacancy in the classified service of any internal-revenue collection district which the public interest requires shall be immediately filled, and there is no eligible entitled to reinstatement under section 1, clause (b), of this rule or remaining on the proper register, such vacancy in the class of storekeeper, storekeeper and gauger, or clerk, may be filled without examination and certification by a temporary designation by the collector of the district of some suitable person to perform the duties of the position until a regular appointment can be made under the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of this rule: Provided, That service under such temporary designation shall in no case continue longer than six months, and shall expire by limitation at the end of that time: And provided further, That no person shall serve more than six months in any one year under such temporary designation, the year limitation in regard to such designation to begin to run on the date thereof: And provided further, That whenever an emergency shall arise requiring that a vacant position in any internal revenue district shall be filled before a certificate can be issued by the Commission and an appointment made thereto in the manner provided in these rules, such position may be filled without regard to the provisions of these rules by temporary appointment for a period not to exceed 30 days and only for such period as may be required for the execution of the necessary details of an appointment thereto in accordance with said provisions, but no person shali receive such emergency appointment who within the 60 days next previous thereto has been separated from a position in said district to which he was temporarily appointed under the provisions of this section.

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Every such temporary designation, and also the discontinuance of the same, shall be at once reported to the Commission."

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 18, 1896.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT TO CUSTOMS RULE II.

Section 5 of Customs Rule II is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: (i) Any person appointed to a position which requires only a portion of his time and attention for the performance of its duties, pays him a compensation not exceeding three hundred dollars per annum, and permits of his pursuing other regular business or occupation, such person being conveniently located for the performance of said duties."

The section as amended shall read as follows:

"5. Exceptions from examination in the classified customs service are hereby made as follows:

"(a) Deputy collectors who do not also act as inspectors, examiners, or clerks. "(b) Cashier of the collector.

"(g) Deputy surveyors.

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"(h) One private secretary or one confidential clerk of each nominating officer. (i) Any person appointed to a position which requires only a portion of his time and attention for the performance of its duties, pays him a compensation not exceeding three hundred dollars per annum, and permits of his pursuing other regular business or occupation, such person being conveniently located for the performance of said duties."

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 18, 1896.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXTENSION OF THE CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENTAL AND INDIAN SERVICES.

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 amend the classification of the Interior Department so as to include among

the positions classified thereunder and subject to competitive examination, clerk, assistant clerk, issue clerk, property clerk, storekeeper, and all other clerical positions at Indian agencies and Indian schools; likewise to amend the classification of the Indian Service so as to include among the positions classified thereunder supervisor of Indian schools, day-school inspector, disciplinarian, industrial teacher, teacher of industries, kindergarten teacher, farmer, nurse, assistant matron, and

seamstress.

But Indians shall be eligible to appointment to any of said positions on such test of fitness as may be required by the Secretary of the Interior and without examination or certification by the Civil Service Commission; but they shall not be transferred from said positions to the departmental service.

Approved, March 20, 1896.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, 1896.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

So much of the Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c), as provides for the appointment of members of the Board of Pension Appeals in the Department of the Interior by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked, and these places will hereafter be treated as subject to competitive examination.

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 28, 1896.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1, clause 3, is hereby amended by striking from the list of places excepted from examination in the Department of the Interior assistant attorneys and law clerks, and these places will hereafter be treated as subject to competitive examination.

Approved.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 28, 1896.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

In the exercise of power vested in him by the Constitution, and of authority given to him by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and by an act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883, the President hereby makes and promulgates the following rules and revokes all others.

RULE I.

1. The United States Civil Service Commission shall have authority to prescribe regulations in pursuance of, and for the execution of, the provisions of these rules and of the civil service act.

2. The several terms hereinafter mentioned, wherever used in these rules or the regulations of the Commission, shall be construed as follows:

(a) The term "civil service act" refers to "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883.

(b) The term "classified service" refers to all that part of the executive civil service of the United States included within the provisions of the civil-service act.

(c) The term "grade," in connection with employees or positions, refers to a group of employees or positions in the classified service arranged upon the basis of duties performed, without regard to salaries received.

(d) The term "class," in connection with employees or positions, refers to a group of employees or positions in any grade arranged upon the basis of salaries received, in pursuance of the provisions of section 163 of the Revised Statutes and of section 6 of the civil-service act.

(e) The term "excepted position" refers to any position within the provisions of the civil-service act, but excepted from the requirement of competitive examination or registration for appointment thereto.