Charge._

Approved, November 1, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

Clause (_e_) of section 2 of General Rule III is amended by adding
thereto the following, and as thus amended is hereby promulgated:

But no person appointed to such a place upon noncompetitive examination
shall within one year after appointment be transferred or appointed to
any place not excepted from examination; but after having served in such
noncompetitive place not less than one year he may be transferred or
appointed in the bureau or office in which he is serving to a place not
excepted from examination upon the certificate of the Commission or the
proper board of examiners that he has passed an examination to test
fitness for the place to which his transfer or appointment is proposed.

Approved, November 1, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO. I.

So much of Special Departmental Rule No. 1, approved July 2, 1888, as
applies to-the Department of Agriculture is hereby amended and
promulgated as follows:

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, and the director of experiment stations and the assistant
director.

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

Approved, November 1, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

SPECIAL CUSTOMS RULE NO. I.

Special Customs Rule No. 1, specially excepting from examination certain
places in the customs service, is hereby amended by including among
those places the following:

At the port of New York, office of the collector: Bookbinder.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, November 1, 1888_.

The foregoing amendment is hereby approved.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the
first sentence of section 1 the following:

_Provided_, That no certification shall be made from the clerk or any
supplementary register to any Department to which promotion regulations
have been applied under General Rule III, section 6, to fill a vacancy
above the grade of class 1.

So that as amended the first paragraph of section 1 will read:

1. Vacancies in the classified departmental service, unles