pproved, January 5, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

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

9. In case of the sudden occurrence of a vacancy in the position of
observer in the Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture which
the public interest requires shall be immediately filled, and which can
not be so filled by certification from the eligible registers of the
Commission, the Secretary of Agriculture may fill such vacancy by
temporary appointment until a regular appointment can be made under the
provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of this rule: _Provided_, Such
temporary appointment shall in no case continue longer than ninety days.
Every such temporary appointment and the discontinuance of the same
shall at once be reported to the Commission.

Approved, January 5, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.--EXECUTIVE ORDER WITHDRAWING FISH CULTURISTS FROM THE
LIST OF PLACES TO BE FILLED BY NONCOMPETITIVE EXAMINATION.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 20, 1894_.

So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III,
section 2, clause (d), as provides for the appointment of fish
culturists upon noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked, and
hereafter fish culturists will be appointed upon competitive
examination.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

SPECIAL INDIAN RULE NO. 1.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 6, 1894_.

Exceptions from examination are hereby made as follows: One
superintendent and the necessary teachers, not exceeding four in number,
for the organization and equipment of a normal school to be established
at Albuquerque, N. Mex., this rule to expire by limitation six months
after the date of its approval.

Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 20, 1894_.

So much of clause 6 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1, providing for
exceptions from examination in the office of the Secretary in the
Department of Agriculture, as excepts "clerk to act as appointment
clerk" is hereby revoked, and that position will hereafter be treated as
subject to competitive examination.

Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Section 6 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by
striking from the list of excepted places in the Weather Bureau of the
Department of Agricu