of clerk or copyist or to any place the duties
of which are clerical: _Provided_, That printers' assistants in the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department, shall only be
eligible for transfer to the grade of operative in that Bureau.

Strike out sections 2, 3, and 5 and renumber section 4 as 2.

Approved, March 2, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 18, 1895_.

Indian Rule IV is amended by adding at the end thereof a new section, to
read as follows:

7. Graduates of Indian normal schools and of normal classes in Indian
schools may be employed in the Indian-school service as assistant
teachers or day-school teachers without further examination:
_Provided_, That certificates of satisfactory proficiency, of
good moral character, and of physical soundness, signed by the proper
officials, be transmitted at the time of appointment to the Civil
Service Commission: _And provided further_, That until the 1st of
July, 1896, graduates of the senior classes of Carlisle, Hampton,
Lincoln Institute, Chilocco, Haskell Institute, and other Indian
schools of equal grade may be included in the provisions of this rule.
Such teachers shall become eligible for promotion to advanced positions
on presentation to the Civil Service Commission of satisfactory
certificates of efficiency and fidelity in their work and of a
progressive spirit in their professional interests, signed by their
immediate official superiors and by the superintendent of Indian
schools, and forwarded with his approval by the Secretary of the
Interior, the Commission reserving to itself the right to decide
as to the satisfactoriness of such certificates.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 20, 1895_.

The Executive order dated February 26, 1891,[19] establishing limits
of punishment for enlisted men of the Army, under an act of Congress
approved September 27, 1890, and which was published in General Orders,
No. 21, 1891, Headquarters of the Army, is amended so as to prescribe as
follows:

ARTICLE I.

In all cases of desertion the sentence may include dishonorable
discharge and forfeiture of pay and allowances.

Subject to the modifications authorized in section 3 of this article,
the limit of the term of confinement (at hard labor) for desertion shall
be as follows:

SECTION 1. In case of surrender--

(_a_) Whe