ve hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 25th day of February, A.D. 1893,
and of the impendence Of the United States the one hundred and
seventeenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas public interests require that the Senate should be convened at
12 o'clock on the 4th day of March next to receive such communications
as may be made by the Executive:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, 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.

Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington,
this 25th day of February, A.D. 1893, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the one hundred and seventeenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

JANUARY 5, 1893.

Section 2 of Postal Rule 1 is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

The classification of the postal service made by the Postmaster-General
under section 6 of the act of January 16, 1883, is hereby extended to
all free-delivery post-offices; and hereafter whenever any post-office
becomes a free-delivery office the said classification or any then
existing classification made by the Postmaster-General under said
section and act shall apply thereto; and the Civil Service Commission
shall provide examinations to test the fitness of persons to fill
vacancies in all free-delivery post-offices, and these rules shall be
in force therein; but this shall not include any post-office made an
experimental free-delivery office under the authority contained in the
appropriation act of March 3, 1891. Every revision of the classification
of any post-office under section 6 of the act of January 16, 1883, and
every inclusion of a post-office within the classified postal service
shall be reported to the President.

BENJ. HARRISON.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 4.