ded for that grade.

Approved, July 11, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.--CLASSIFICATION OF THE PENSION AGENCIES OF THE INTERIOR
DEPARTMENT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 15, 1895_.

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the third
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, I hereby direct the Secretary of the Interior to amend the
classification of the Department of the Interior so as to include among
the employees classified thereunder the officers, clerks, and other
employees of the pension agencies of said Department.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VIII.

Section 1, clause (_a_), is hereby amended as follows: Strike out
the period after the word "made" in the second line, insert a semicolon,
and add the following:

But transfers from a pension agency of the Interior Department may be
made only as follows: From a pension agency of the Interior Department
to the office of the Secretary of the Interior, or of the Assistant
Attorney-General for the Interior Department, or to the Pension Office,
or from any of the above-named offices to a pension agency, or from one
pension agency to another pension agency, upon requisition of the
Secretary of the Interior: _Provided_, That a transfer from a
pension agency to a position in the Interior Department shall not be
made when the person to be transferred would not be eligible to original
appointment in the departmental service under the law requiring an
apportionment of appointments among the States, Territories, and the
District of Columbia according to population.

The section and clause as amended will read:

1. Transfers may be made as follows:

(_a_) From one Department to another, upon requisition by the head
of the Department to which the transfer is to be made; but transfers
from a pension agency of the Interior Department may be made only as
follows: From a pension agency of the Interior Department to the office
of the Secretary of the Interior, or of the Assistant Attorney-General
for the Interior Department, or to the Pension Office, or from any of
the above-named offices to a pension agency, or from one pension agency
to another pension agency, upon requisition of the Secretary of the
Interior: _Provided_, That a transfer from a pensi