by proclamation issued for that purpose.

And whereas it is provided by section 3 of the said act that it shall
take effect at a time to be fixed by the President by proclamation
issued for that purpose:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of
America, do hereby, in virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3
of the said act, proclaim the 15th day of December, 1890, as the day on
which the said act shall take effect.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States of America to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 18th day of November, A.D. 1890,
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
fifteenth.

[SEAL.]

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among
the exceptions from examination in the Department of Agriculture the
following:

Scientific or professional experts to be employed in investigations
specially authorized by Congress, but not to include any persons
regularly employed in that Department nor any persons whose duties
are not scientific or professional, and who are not experts in the
particular line of scientific or professional inquiry in which they
are to be employed.

Approved, January 29, 1890.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Section 1 of Postal Rule II is hereby amended by adding to the subjects
of the clerk examination the following: "Reading addresses and physical
tests;" and to the subjects of carrier examination the following:
"Reading addresses."

Approved, January 29, 1890.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Customs Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding thereto the
following:

In the customs district of New York: Detectives employed exclusively
as such.

Approved, March 10, 1890.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

That part of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 relating to the Coast and
Geodetic Survey, as printed on page 66 of the Fifth Annual Report of the
Commission, is hereby amended by striking out in line 3, after the word
"to," the words "general office assistant," and inserting in lieu
thereof the words "assistant in charge of office and topography;" so
that as amended the c