ed place.

_Provided further_, That no person shall be admitted to any place
not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the
classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an
appropriate examination under the United States Civil Service Commission
and his or her eligibility has been certified to by said Commission.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 13, 1896_.

The civil-service rules are hereby amended as follows:

Rule III, clause 2 (_a_), is amended by adding after the words "the
light-house service" the words "the life-saving service."

Paragraph (_b_) of the same rule and clause is amended by striking
out after the words "who are in the service of the Treasury Department
in any capacity" the words "except those in the life-saving service."

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as
follows:

Rule I, section 2, clause (_b_): In the third line, after the word
"act," insert "and these rules;" so that as amended the clause will
read:

(_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 and these rules.

Rule III, section 2, clause (_a_), is amended by adding thereto the
following clause:

The Ordnance Department at large.

Rule III, section 2, clause (_a_), is amended by striking out after
"persons" in the third line the words "who have been nominated for" and
inserting in lieu thereof the words "whose appointments are subject to."

Rule III, section 2 clause (_b_), is amended by inserting in the
second line, after the word "designation," the words "except persons
merely employed as laborers or workmen and persons whose appointments
are subject to confirmation by the Senate."

Rule III, section 2, clause (_b_), is amended by adding thereto the
following words:

Who are employed in the Department of Justice under the annual
appropriation for the investigation of official acts, records, and
accounts of officers of the courts.

Rule III, section 3, is amended to read as follows:

3. The custom-house service shall include such officers and employees as
have been or may hereafter he classified under the civil-service act who
are serving in any customs district whose officers and