on the 4th day of March next to receive such communications
as may be made by the Executive:

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do
hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the
Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the city of
Washington, on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon, of which
all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that
body are hereby required to take notice.

[SEAL.]

Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington,
the 26th day of February, A.D. 1889, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the one hundred and thirteenth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
T.F. BAYARD,
_Secretary of State_.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, December 5, 1888_.

_To the Civil Service Commission_.

GENTLEMEN: The efficiency of the public service, in my opinion, renders
it necessary to include in the classified service and subject to
examination the employees in the railway mail service. The difficulties
in the way of this movement can, I believe, be overcome by carefully
prepared rules and regulations.

I have this day directed the Postmaster-General to so revise the
classification of his Department as to include these employees in one or
more classes; and in furtherance of my purpose I have to request that,
after conference with the Postmaster-General, you will prepare the
necessary modifications of the present rules and regulations to meet the
proposed extension.

Yours, very truly,

GROVER CLEVELAND.

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION,
_Washington, D.C., December 5, 1888_.

The PRESIDENT.

SIR: The Commission recommends that Special Departmental Rule No. 1 be
amended by adding to the exceptions from examination therein declared
the following:

"10. In all the Departments: Bookbinders."

Very respectfully,

A.P. EDGERTON,
CHAS. LYMAN,
_United States Civil Service Commissioners_.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, December 6, 1888_.

The above proposed amendment is hereby approved.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

Amendments to General Rules II, III, IV, Departmental Rules V, VIII,
Customs Rule III, and Postal Rules II, VI, are hereby made and
promulgated as follows:

GENERAL RULE II.

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