n the State of South Dakota,
plat of which was approved by the Secretary of the Interior January 24,
1889, and now on file in the General Land Office, are forfeited to the
United States and will be subject to entry under the homestead laws as
provided by said act of March 2, 1889, whenever the Secretary of the
Interior shall give due notice to the local officers of this declaration
of forfeiture.

Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this 5th day of
December, A.D. 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND, _President of the United States_.

By the President:
S.W. LAMOREUX,
_Commissioner of the General Land Office_.

[Footnote 8: See pp. 94-97.]

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

CIVIL SERVICE.--REVOCATION OF PROMOTION REGULATIONS.

DECEMBER 11, 1893.

The promotion regulations applied to the War Department May 7, 1887,
under authority contained in amended Civil-Service Rule VI are hereby
revoked, and hereafter promotions in that Department, until otherwise
provided, will be made in accordance with the provisions of Departmental
Rule IX and the order of the Secretary of War of March 2, 1892, or such
other and further orders as the said Secretary may make not inconsistent
with the civil-service rules and the order of the President of December
4, 1891, directing the keeping of an efficiency record with a view to
the placing of promotions wholly upon the basis of merit.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

GENERAL RULE III.

Amend General Rule III by striking out clause (_e_) of section 2.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE II.

Amend Departmental Rule II by striking out the whole of section 1 and
substituting therefor the following:

1. To test fitness for the classified departmental service there shall
be a clerk-copyist examination and such supplementary and special
examinations as the Commission may provide to meet the special
requirements of the service. The clerk-copyist examination shall not
include more than the following subjects: Orthography, copying,
penmanship, arithmetic (fundamental rules, fractions, percentage,
interest, and discount), elements of bookkeeping and accounts, elements
of the English language, letter writing, elements of the geography,
history, and government of the United States.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VI.

Amend Departmental Rule VI as follows:

In section 1, line 1, strike out the words "copyist and of the clerk"
and insert in lieu thereof the wor