d upon
human endurance oblige me to decline from and after this date all
personal interviews with those seeking appointments to office, except as
I on my own motion may especially invite them. The same considerations
make it impossible for me to receive those who merely desire to pay
their respects except on the days and during the hours especially
designated for that purpose.

I earnestly request Senators and Representatives to aid me in securing
for them uninterrupted interviews by declining to introduce their
constituents and friends when visiting the Executive Mansion during the
hours designated for their reception. Applicants for office will only
prejudice their prospects by repeated importunity and by remaining in
Washington to await results.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 26, 1893_.

_It is hereby ordered_, That the several Executive Departments and
the Government Printing Office be closed on Tuesday, the 30th instant,
to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves
of the soldiers and sailors who fell in the defense of the Union during
the War of the Rebellion.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended as follows: Include
among the places excepted from examination therein the following:

6. In the Department of Agriculture:

In the office of the Secretary: The assistant chiefs of the following
divisions: Of economic ornithology and mammalogy, of pomology, of
microscopy, of vegetable pathology, of records and editing, and one
property clerk.

In the Weather Bureau: The assistant chief of the Bureau, the three
professors of meteorology of highest grade, executive officer,
superintendent of telegraph lines, and one property clerk.

In the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries the following:
Scientific or professional experts to be temporarily employed in
investigations authorized by Congress, but not to include any persons
regularly employed in that Commission nor any person whose duties are
not scientific or professional and who are not experts in the particular
line of scientific inquiry in which they are to be employed.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 6, 1893_.

The foregoing amendments are hereby approved.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Postal Rule No. 2 is hereby amended as follows:

Strike out all of section 1 except