g Office be closed on Thursday, 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.

CIVIL SERVICE.--GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE RULES.

ADOPTING AND PROMULGATING ORDER.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 13, 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
service of the Government Printing Office, to be known as the Government
Printing Office Rules:

RULE I.

1. The classified service of the Government Printing Office shall
include all persons employed in that office. except those appointed by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate and unskilled laborers or
workmen,

2. The officers, clerks, and other employees of the Government Printing
Office are hereby arranged in the following classes:

_Class 1_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of less than
$720, or a compensation at the rate of less than $720 per annum.

_Class 2_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $720 or more,
or a compensation at the rate of $720 or more, but less than $840 per
annum.

_Class 3_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $840 or more,
or a compensation at the rate of $840 or more, but less than $900 per
annum.

_Class 4_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $900 or more,
or a compensation at the rate of $900 or more, but less than $1,000 per
annum.

_Class 5_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or
more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,000 or more, but less than
$1,200 per annum.

_Class 6_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,200 or
more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,200 or more, but less than
$1,400 per annum.

_Class 7_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,400 or
more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,400 or more, but less than
$1,600 per annum.

_Class 8_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,600 or
more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,600 or more, but less than
$1,800 per annum.

_Class 9_.--All persons receiving an a