on 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.

Approved, July 15, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE II.

Section 3, providing for exceptions from examination in the classified
departmental service, is hereby amended as follows by the insertion of
clause (_g_):

One designated clerk at each pension agency (designated to sign
official checks for the pension agent).

Section 4 is hereby amended as follows: In the third line, after the
word "examination," add the following proviso:

_Provided_, That any person employed in an excepted place in any
office or bureau at the time when said office or bureau is brought
into the classified service, or any person transferred directly from
a nonexcepted to an excepted place in the office or bureau in which he
is serving, may at any time be directly transferred from such excepted
place to any nonexcepted place in the office or bureau in which he is
serving.

The section as amended will read:

4. No person hereafter appointed to a place under the exceptions to
examination made by any departmental rule shall be transferred from
such place to a place not also excepted from examination: _Provided_,
That any person employed in an excepted place in any office or bureau
at the time when said office or bureau is brought into the classified
service, or any person transferred directly from a nonexcepted to an
excepted place in the office or bureau in which he is serving, may at
any time be directly transferred from such excepted place to any
nonexcepted place in the office or bureau in which he is serving.

Approved, July 15, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 15, 1895_.

Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended by striking out the whole
of the paragraph in section 3, Department of the Interior, relating to
the Geological Survey and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

In the Geological Survey: Professional experts and special agents
employed for short periods at per diem salaries and paid only when
actually employed.

Approve