modified by reason of the fact that a part of the
area so relinquished is embraced within the limits of the boundaries
herein described and set apart as a forest reservation, nor shall the
right of occupation, location, and purchase of said relinquished lands
under the provisions of the mineral-land laws accorded by said act of
Congress be abridged.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 22d day of February, A.D. 1897,
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
twenty-first.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
RICHARD OLNEY,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas public interests require that the Senate should be convened at
12 o'clock on the 4th day of March next to receive such communications
as may be made by the Executive:

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion
requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in
the city of Washington, on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock
noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as
members of that body are hereby required to take notice.

Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington,
the 24th day of February, A.D. 1897, and of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred and twenty-first.

[SEAL.]

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
RICHARD OLNEY,
_Secretary of State_.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 23, 1896_.

Amend clause 2 (_b_) of Rule III by adding at the end thereof the
following:

And all officers and employees in the penitentiary service who are by
law subject to classification.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 2, 1897_.

Amend Rule VIII by striking out section 12 and substituting therefor the
following:

Whenever there are no names of eligibles upon a register for any grade
in which a vacancy exists, and the public interest requires that it
must be filled before eligibles can be provided by the Commission, such
vacancy may, subject to the approval of the Commission, be filled by
appointment without