subject to competitive examination.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

In the exercise of power vested in him by the Constitution and of
authority given to him by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section
of the Revised Statutes and by an act to regulate and improve the civil
service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883, the President
hereby makes and promulgates the following rules and revokes all others:

RULE I.

1. The United States Civil Service Commission shall have authority to
prescribe regulations in pursuance of and for the execution of the
provisions of these rules and of the civil-service act.

2. The several terms hereinafter mentioned, wherever used in these rules
or the regulations of the Commission, shall be construed as follows:

(_a_) The term "civil-service act" refers to "An act to regulate
and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January
16, 1883.

(_b_) The term "classified service" refers to all that part of the
executive civil service of the United States included within the
provisions of the civil-service act.

(_c_) The term "grade" in connection with employees or positions
refers to a group of employees or positions in the classified service
arranged upon the basis of duties performed, without regard to salaries
received.

(_d_) The term "class" in connection with employees or positions
refers to a group of employees or positions in any grade arranged upon
the basis of salaries received, in pursuance of the provisions of
section 163 of the Revised Statutes and of section 6 of the
civil-service act.

(_e_) The term "excepted position" refers to any position within
the provisions of the civil-service act, but excepted from the
requirement of competitive examination or registration for appointment
thereto.

RULE II.

1. Any person in the executive civil service of the United States who
shall willfully violate any of the provisions of the civil-service act
or of these rules shall be dismissed from office.

2. No person in the executive civil service shall use his official
authority or official influence for the purpose of interfering with an
election or controlling the result thereof.

3. No person in the executive civil service shall dismiss, or cause to
be dismissed, or make any attempt to procure the dismissal of, or in any
manner change the