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nominating officer.

(_i_) Any person appointed to a position which requires only a
portion of his time and attention for the performance of its duties,
pays him a compensation not exceeding $300 per annum, and permits of
his pursuing other regular business or occupation, such person being
conveniently located for the performance of said duties.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.--EXTENSION OF THE CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENTAL AND INDIAN
SERVICES.

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 Interior Department so as to include among the
positions classified thereunder and subject to competitive examination
clerk, assistant clerk, issue clerk, property clerk, storekeeper, and
all other clerical positions at Indian agencies and Indian schools;
likewise to amend the classification of the Indian service so as to
include among the positions classified thereunder supervisor of Indian
schools, day-school inspector, disciplinarian, industrial teacher,
teacher of industries, kindergarten teacher, farmer, nurse, assistant
matron, and seamstress.

But Indians shall be eligible to appointment to any of said positions
on such test of fitness as may be required by the Secretary of the
Interior and without examination or certification by the Civil Service
Commission; but they shall not be transferred from said positions to
the departmental service.

Approved, March 20, 1896.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 28, 1896_.

So much of the Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule
III, section 2, clause (_c_) as provides for the appointment of
members of the board of pension appeals in the Department of the
Interior by non-competitive examination is hereby revoked, and these
places will hereafter be treated as subject to competitive examination.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 28, 1896_.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1, clause 3, is hereby amended by striking
from the list of places excepted from examination in the Department of
the Interior assistant attorneys and law clerks, and these places will
hereafter be treated as