of any such person,
without regard to the length of time he or she has been separated from
the service.

RULE VIII.

The Public Printer shall report to the Commission--

(_a_) Every probational and every absolute appointment to the
service of the Government Printing Office.

(_b_) Every refusal to make an absolute appointment and the reason
therefor, and every declination of an appointment.

(_c_) Every separation from the service of the Government Printing
Office and the cause of such separation, whether death, resignation, or
dismissal.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.--EXECUTIVE ORDER WITHDRAWING ENGINEERS AND ASSISTANT
ENGINEERS FROM THE LIST OF PLACES TO BE FILLED BY NONCOMPETITIVE
EXAMINATION.

So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III,
section 2, clause (_c_), as provides for the appointment of
engineers and assistant engineers by noncompetitive examination is
hereby revoked, and hereafter engineers and assistant engineers will
be appointed by competitive examination.

Approved, June 25, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

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 rule to cancel and be in lieu of
Customs Rule V of the Revised Civil-Service Rules:

CUSTOMS RULE V.

1. Until promotion regulations have been applied to a classified customs
district the following promotions may be made therein at any time after
absolute appointment:

(_a_) Any employee in any grade, upon any test of fitness
determined upon by the nominating officer, to any vacant place in the
class next above the one in which he may be serving, except to the
positions of weigher and gauger.

(_b_) Any employee in any grade may be promoted or transferred to a
vacancy in the lowest class of the grade of examiner after passing the
examiner examination, to a vacancy in the lowest class of the grade
of weigher after passing the weigher examination, to a vacancy
in the lowest class of the grade of gauger after passing the gauger
examination, or to a vacancy in the lowest class of any other grade
than the one in which he may be serving upon passing the examination
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