further_, That no person shall serve longer than the
period herein prescribed in any one year under such temporary
appointment. The year limitation in regard to reappointment shall
begin to run on the date of the original appointment: _And provided
further_, That at each pension agency at the time of the quarterly
payment of pensions such temporary appointments may be made as the
needs of the service may demand for a period not to exceed thirty
days, which appointments shall not be extended or renewed until the
date of the next quarterly payment of pensions. Every such temporary
appointment and the discontinuance of the same shall at once be
reported to the Commission.

Approved, July 15, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.--AMENDMENT OF CLASSIFICATION.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 15, 1895_.

In pursuance of the authority contained in 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, the heads of
the several Executive Departments are hereby directed to amend their
several classifications so as to include firemen among the employees
classified thereunder.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 15, 1895_.

Executive orders heretofore issued designating the places to be filled
by noncompetitive examination under clause (_c_) of General Rule III
are hereby amended so as to include among those places in the Department
of the Interior, in the Geological Survey, the editor and the
photographer.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended by adding to the list of
places excepted from examination in the Treasury Department--

In the Bureau of Immigration: One statistician and stenographer, with
power to act as immigrant inspector.

Approved, July 30, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE RULES.

Departmental Rule IX, clause 1, paragraph 2, is hereby amended by
striking out in line 1 the words "appointed from the appropriate
register to" and substituting therefor the word "occupying;" by adding
before the word "messenger" in line 2 the following: "engineers,
assistant engineers, firemen;" by striking out in line 3 the words
"below the positions of clerk and copyist" and substituting therefor the
words "the educational test for appoint