every failure to accept
an appointment and the reasons therefor.

Approved, May 6, 1896.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., May 7, 1896_.

In the exercise of the authority vested in the President by the
seventeen hundred and fifty-third (1753d) section of the Revised
Statutes--

_It is ordered_, That the office of the Interstate Commerce
Commission be, and the same is hereby, classified as a part of the
classified departmental service, and for the purpose of applying the
civil-service rules thereto the officers, clerks, and other employees of
said Commission are hereby arranged in the following classes, viz:

_Class A_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of less than
$720, or a compensation at the rate of less than $720 per annum.

_Class B_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $720 or more,
or a compensation at the rate of $720 or more, but less than $840 per
annum.

_Class C_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $840 or more,
or a compensation at the rate of $840 or more, but less than $900 per
annum.

_Class D_.--All persons receiving a salary of $900 or more, or a
compensation at the rate of $900 or more, but less than $1,000 per
annum.

_Class E_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or
more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,000 or more, but less than
$1,200 per annum.

_Class 1_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,200 or
more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,200 or more, but less than
$1,400 per annum.

_Class 2_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,400 or
more per annum, or a compensation at the rate of $1,400 or more, but
less than $1,600 per annum.

_Class 3_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,600 or
more per annum, or an annual compensation at the rate of $1,600 or more,
but less than $1,800 per annum.

_Class 4_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,800 or
more per annum, or a compensation at the rate of $1,800 or more, but
less than $2,000 per annum.

_Class 5_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $2,000 or
more or a compensation at the rate of $2,000 or more per annum.

_Provided_, That no person who may be appointed to an office by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate and that no person who may be
employed merely as a workman or laborer shall be considered as within
this classification, and no person so employed shall be assigned to the
duties of a classifi