examination and certification for such part of
three months as will enable the Commission to provide eligibles. Such
temporary appointment shall expire by limitation as soon as an eligible
shall be provided, and no person shall serve longer than three months
in any one year under such temporary appointment or appointments unless
by special authority of the Commission previously obtained. Said year
limitation shall commence from the date of such first appointment:
_Provided_, That whenever an emergency shall arise requiring that
a vacancy shall be filled before a certification can be issued and an
appointment made thereto in the manner provided in these rules, such
vacancy may be filled without regard to the provisions of these rules
for such part of thirty days as may be required for the issuance of a
certificate and the execution of the necessary details of an appointment
thereto in accordance with said provisions. Such appointment shall in
no case continue longer than thirty days.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 2, 1897_.

Amend Rule V, section 4, prescribing age limitations for the classified
service, by striking out the table after the tenth line and substituting
therefor the following:

Minimum. Maximum.
Departmental Service:
Page, messenger boy, apprentice, or student. 14 20
Printer's assistant and messenger. 18 No limit.
Positions in the railway mail service. 18 35
Internes and hospital stewards in the
marine-hospital service and acting second
assistant engineer in the revenue-cutter
service. 21 30
Cadet in the revenue-cutter service and aid in
the Coast and the Geodetic Survey. 18 25
Surfmen in the life-saving service. 18 45
Superintendent, physician, supervisor,
day-school inspector, and disciplinarian in
the Indian service; inspector and assistant
inspector of hulls, an inspector and an
assistant inspector of boilers, in the
steamboat-inspection service. 25 55
All other positions. 20 No limit.

(The age limitation shall not apply in the case
of the wife of the super