AND.

By the President:
RICHARD OLNEY,
_Secretary of State_.

[Footnote 35: See Vol. VIII, pp. 741-742.]

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 2, 1895_.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1, clause 8, is hereby amended by striking
from the list of places excepted from examination in the Department of
Labor statistical experts and temporary experts.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 2, 1895_.

So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III,
section 2, clause (_c_), as provides for the appointment of special
agents in the Department of Labor by noncompetitive examination is
hereby revoked.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 18, 1896_.

Section 5 of Internal-Revenue Rule IV is hereby amended by adding at the
end of the first paragraph thereof the following:

_And provided further_, That whenever an emergency shall arise
requiring that a vacant position in any internal-revenue district shall
be filled before a certificate can be issued by the Commission and an
appointment made thereto in the manner provided in these rules, such
position may be filled without regard to the provisions of these rules
by temporary appointment for a period not to exceed fifteen days, and
only for such period as may be required for the execution of the
necessary details of an appointment thereto in accordance with said
provisions; but no person shall receive such emergency appointment who
within the sixty days next previous thereto has been separated from a
position in said district to which he was temporarily appointed under
the provisions of this section.

The section as amended shall read as follows:

5. In the case of the occurrence of a vacancy in the classified service
of any internal-revenue collection district which the public interest
requires shall be immediately filled and there is no eligible entitled
to reinstatement under section 1, clause (_b_), of this rule
or remaining on the proper register, such vacancy in the class of
storekeeper, storekeeper and gauger, or clerk may be filled without
examination and certification by a temporary designation by the
collector of the district of some suitable person to perform the duties
of the position until a regular appo