hographer.

5. In the Department of the Navy:

In the Hydrographic Office: Engravers, copperplate printers, printers'
apprentices.

6. In the Department of Justice: Pardon clerk and two law clerks.

7. In the Department of Agriculture:

In the office of the Commissioner: Private secretary to the chief clerk,
superintendent of grounds, and assistant chief of each of the following
divisions: Of botany, of chemistry, of entomology, of forestry, and of
statistics.

In the Bureau of Animal Industry: Chief of the Bureau, assistant chief,
private secretary to chief, and chief clerk.

8. In the Post-Office Department: Assistant Attorney-General, law clerk,
and agents and employees at postal-note, postage-stamp, postal-card, and
envelope agencies.

9. In the Department of Labor: Statistical experts and temporary
experts.

Approved, July 2, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO. 2.

No substitute shall hereafter be employed in any Department; and the
head of any Department in which substitutes are now employed may appoint
any of such substitutes to take the place of his principal, or to any
place of lower grade: _Provided_, That no substitute shall be
appointed as herein authorized until he shall have passed an appropriate
examination by the Civil Service Commission and his eligibility shall
have been certified by said Commission to the head of the Department in
which he is employed.

Approved, August 3, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _August 9, 1888_.

_The Heads of Departments_:

As a mark of respect to the memory of General Sheridan, the President
directs that the several Executive Departments in the city of Washington
be closed and all public business at the national capital suspended on
Saturday, August 11 instant, the day of the funeral.

By direction of the President:

DANIEL S. LAMONT,
_Private Secretary._

SPECIAL CUSTOMS RULE NO. 1.

In addition to exceptions from examination in the classified customs
service made under Customs Rule II, clause 5, the following special
exceptions are made:

In the Boston customs district, office of the naval officer: Assistant
deputy naval officer.

Approved, August 10, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
_Washington City, August 14, 1888_.

By direction of the President, Major-General John M. Schofield is
assigned to the command of the Army of the Unite