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, the Secretary
of Agriculture is hereby directed to amend the classification of the
Department of Agriculture so as to include among the classes covered
thereby clerks, microscopists, assistant microscopists, stock examiners,
taggers, agents, and all other employees, except temporary laborers, in
the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture outside
of Washington, D.C., all State statistical agents of the Department of
Agriculture outside of Washington, D.C., and all messengers in the
Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture outside of Washington,
D.C. The classification when so amended shall take effect on July 1,
1895.

Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 24, 1895_.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1, section 6, is hereby amended by
striking out the whole of said section and substituting therefor the
following:

6. In the Department of Agriculture, in the office of the Secretary:
Private secretary to the chief clerk, and wood engravers; scientific or
professional experts employed for a period of not exceeding six months
outside of Washington, D.C., in investigations specially authorized by
Congress, but no such expert shall be reappointed as an expert unless
the United States Civil Service Commission shall certify that such
person has passed a suitable examination and is eligible for such
appointment. This exception does not include any person to be employed
in that Department in Washington, D.C., nor any person whose duties are
not scientific or professional or who is not expert in the particular
line of scientific or professional inquiry in which such person is to
be employed.

Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 24, 1895_.

Special Departmental Rule No. I, clause 3, is hereby amended by adding
to the places excepted from examination in the Department of the
Interior the following:

In the Bureau of Education: Specialist in foreign educational systems
and specialist in education as a preventive of pauperism and crime.

Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE II.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 24, 1895_.

Section 3 is hereby amended as follows: At the en