under this regulation shall be found
suitable and qualified, the nomination will be made at discretion.

13. When a vacancy occurs in the office of United States marshal,
applications in writing from residents in the district in which the
vacancy occurs may be addressed to the Attorney-General of the United
States, inclosing proper certificates of character, responsibility,
and capacity; and if any of the applicants shall be found suitable
and qualified, the name or names, not exceeding three, of the best
qualified shall be certified by the board of examiners to the
Attorney-General, and from this list the nomination will be made.
If, however, no applicants under this regulation shall be found
suitable and qualified, the nomination will be made at discretion.

14. Appointments to fill vacancies occurring in offices in the several
Territories, excepting those of judges of the United States courts,
Indian agents, and superintendents, will be made from suitable and
qualified persons domiciled in the Territory in which the vacancy
occurs, if any such are found.

15. It shall be the duty of the examining board in each of the
Departments to report to the Advisory Board such modifications in the
rules and regulations as in the judgment of such examining board are
required for appointments to certain positions to which, by reason of
distance, or of difficult access, or of other sufficient cause, the
rules and regulations can not be applied with advantage; and if the
reason for such modifications shall be satisfactory to the Advisory
Board, said board will recommend them for approval.

16. Nothing in these rules and regulations shall prevent the
reappointment at discretion of the incumbents of any office the term of
which is fixed by law, and when such reappointment is made no vacancy
within the meaning of the rules shall be deemed to have occurred.

17. Appointments to all positions in the civil service not included in
the subjoined classification, nor otherwise specially provided for by
the rules and regulations, may, until otherwise ordered, be excepted
from the operation of the rules.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., May 27, 1872_.

SIR:[68] The President directs me to say that the several Departments of
the Government will be closed on the 30th instant, in order to enable
the employees of the Government to participate, in connection with the
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