e classification of the postal service made by the
Postmaster-General under section 6 of the act of January 16, 1883,
is hereby extended to all free-delivery post-offices, and hereafter
whenever any post-office becomes a free-delivery office the said
classification or any then existing classification made by the
Postmaster-General under said section and act shall apply thereto;
and whenever, by order of the Postmaster-General, any post-office
shall be consolidated with and made part of another post-office where
free delivery is established, all the employees of the office thus
consolidated whose names appear on the roster of said office approved
by the Post-Office Department, and including the postmaster thereof,
shall from the date of said order be employees of said free-delivery
office, and the person holding on the date of said order the position
of postmaster at the office thus consolidated with said free-delivery
office may be assigned to any position therein and given any appropriate
designation under the classification act which the Postmaster-General
may direct; and the Civil Service Commission shall provide examinations
to test the fitness of persons to fill vacancies in all free-delivery
post-offices, and these rules shall be in force therein; but this shall
not include any post-office made an experimental free-delivery office
under the authority contained in the appropriation act of March 3, 1891.
Every revision of the classification of any post-office under section 6
of the act of January 16, 1883, and every inclusion of a post-office
within the classified postal service shall be reported to the President.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

THIRD ANNUAL MESSAGE.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 2, 1895_.

_To the Congress of the United States_:

The present assemblage of the legislative branch of our Government
occurs at a time when the interests of our people and the needs of
the country give especial prominence to the condition of our foreign
relations and the exigencies of our national finances. The reports of
the heads of the several administrative Departments of the Government
fully and plainly exhibit what has been accomplished within the scope
of their respective duties and present such recommendations for the
betterment of our country's condition as patriotic and intelligent labor
and observation suggest.

I therefore deem my executive duty ade