e to another
place not also excepted from examination.

Customs Rule VIII is hereby amended as follows:

In clause (_a_), line 2, after the word "by," insert the word
"any," and in the same line strike out "II, clause 5."

Approved, November 2, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VII.

Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding to the first paragraph
of section 1 the following proviso:

_Provided further_, That sea post clerks in the Post-Office
Department shall be appointed by transfer from the classified railway
mail service or the classified postal service, and shall be eligible
at any time for retransfer to the service from which transferred, but
shall not be transferred to any other department or branch of the
service, nor to any other place in the Post-Office Department, without
examination and certification by the Commission.

RAILWAY MAIL RULE II.

Railway Mail Rule II is hereby amended as follows:

In section 5 strike out clauses (_e_) and (_f_).

RAILWAY MAIL RULE IV.

Railway Mail Rule IV is hereby amended as follows:

In the last proviso of clause (_b_) of section 2, in line 2 of
that proviso, after the word "line," insert the words "or at a transfer
station or on a steamboat;" in the same line strike out the words "on
which" and substitute therefor the word "where," and in line 3, after
the word "railroad," insert the words "or steamboat;" so that as amended
the proviso will read:

_Provided further_, That on a line or at a transfer station or on a
steamboat where the service does not require the full time of a clerk,
and one can be employed jointly with the railroad or steamboat company,
the appointment may be made without examination and certification, with
the consent of the Commission, upon a statement of the facts by the
general superintendent; but no clerk so appointed shall be eligible for
transfer or appointment to any other place in the service.

Approved, November 17, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

SECOND ANNUAL MESSAGE.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 3, 1894_.

_To the Congress of the United States_:

The assemblage within the nation's legislative halls of those charged
with the duty of making laws for the benefit of a generous and free
people impressively suggests the exacting obligation and inexorable
responsibility involved in their task. At the threshold of such labor