SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 20th day of July, A.D. 1893, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and eighteenth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
W.Q. GRESHAM,
_Secretary of State_.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following
section:

8. The First Comptroller of the Treasury having advised the Secretary of
the Treasury that under the operation of section 5 of the legislative,
executive, and judicial appropriation act making appropriations for the
fiscal year ending June 30,1894, the employment of substitutes in the
departmental service must cease from and after July 1, 1893, it is
hereby ordered, in view of the fact that the substitutes now employed
were appointed by regular certification under section 7 of this rule,
that such of said substitutes as shall not be appointed to regular
places before the employment of substitutes shall cease shall be
eligible for appointment to regular places by reinstatement under the
provisions of Departmental Rule X, in the order of their employment as
substitutes as provided in said section 7, notwithstanding the
prohibition contained in the second proviso of said section; and said
substitutes shall have preference for appointment in the manner herein
provided over all other eligibles.

This section shall become inoperative and cease to be a part of the
civil-service rules when all of the substitutes now employed in the
several Departments shall have been appointed as herein provided or
shall have ceased to be eligible for appointment by reason of the
expiration of the time within which a reinstatement can be made under
Rule X.

Approved, April 12, 1893.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 8, 1893_.

It has become apparent after two months' experience that the rules
heretofore promulgated regulating interviews with the President have
wholly failed in their operation. The time which under these rules was
set apart for the reception of Senators and Representatives has been
almost entirely spent in listening to applications for office, which
have been bewildering in volume, perplexing and exhausting in their
iteration, and impossible of remembrance.

A due regard for public duty, which must be neglected if present
conditions continue, and an observance of the limitations place