not my intention that these several amendments should be
retroactive in their effect:

I therefore direct that the word "hereafter" be inserted after the word
"person" in the first line of each of said sections as of the date of
said amendments, viz, November 2, 1894.

Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.--INTERNAL-REVENUE RULES.

ADOPTING AND PROMULGATING ORDER.

MAY 7, 1895.

In the exercise of the power vested in him by the Constitution, by the
seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and
the act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of
the United States," approved January 16, 1883, the President hereby
makes and promulgates the following rules concerning the classified
internal-revenue service, to be known as the Internal-Revenue Rules:

INTERNAL-REVENUE RULE I.

The classified internal-revenue service shall include all the clerks,
storekeepers, storekeepers and gaugers, and gaugers classified under the
provisions of section 6 of the act to regulate and improve the civil
service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883.

INTERNAL-REVENUE RULE II.

1. To test fitness for admission to the classified internal-revenue
service, examinations of a practical character shall be provided on such
subjects as the Commission may direct.

2. The following age limitations shall apply to applicants for the
classified internal-revenue service: For clerk, not under 18 years of
age; for storekeepers, storekeepers and gaugers, and for gaugers, not
under 21 years of age.

3. Blank forms of application shall be furnished by the secretaries of
the several internal-revenue boards of examiners to any person desiring
to be examined who applies therefor in person or by letter in his own
handwriting.

4. The date of reception of each application and also of its approval
by the board shall be noted on the application paper.

5. Exceptions from examination in the classified internal-revenue
service are hereby made as follows:

6. No person appointed to a place excepted from examination by any
internal-revenue rule shall be transferred from such place to another
place not also excepted from examination.

INTERNAL-REVENUE RULE III.

1. The Commission shall appoint in each classified internal-revenue
district a board of examiners, which shall--

(_a_) Conduct all examinations for admission to or prom