inted assistant teacher as herein provided may be, any time
after absolute appointment, appointed teacher upon the certification of
the Commission that he has passed the teacher's examination.

Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.--AMENDMENT OF CLASSIFICATION OF THE INDIAN SERVICE AS
MADE BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR APRIL 13, 1891.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 11, 1894_.

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the third
paragraph of section 6 of the act entitled "An act to regulate and
improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16,
1883, I hereby direct the Secretary of the Interior to revise the
classification of the Indian service made by him, by direction of the
President, on the 13th day of April, 1891, and to include in class 3
of said classification assistant teachers.

Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 26, 1894_.

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

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Indian Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places
excepted from examination therein the following:

Kindergarten teachers, to be employed as such, not exceeding twenty
in number.

Approved, June 21, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Customs Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places
excepted from examination therein the following:

In the customs district of Boston, office of the collector: One
superintendent of warehouses.

In the customs district of Philadelphia, office of the collector:
Five chiefs of division.

Approved, June 21, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 9, 1894_.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE II.

Departmental Rule II, clause 3 (_f_), is hereby amended by adding
at the end thereof the following words:

Except in the Department of Agriculture the chiefs of the following
divisions: Entomology and economic ornithology and mammalogy.

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO. I.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by dropp