lause will read: "confidential clerk to assistant
in charge of office and topography."

Approved, March 10, 1890.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

MARCH 28, 1890.

Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following
section, to be numbered 7:

7. In case of temporary absence, from sickness or other unavoidable
cause, of clerks, copyists, or employees of other grades for which
examinations are held, there may be certified in the manner provided
for in this rule, and employed under such regulations as the heads of
the several Departments shall prescribe, substitutes for such clerks,
copyists, or other employees so absent; and such substitutes so employed
in any Department shall be appointed in the order of their employment
as substitutes to the regular grades of that Department without further
certification as vacancies to which they are eligible may occur therein
while so employed as substitutes, every such appointment to be at once
reported to the Commission: _Provided_, That no person while employed
as a substitute in one Department shall be certified as a substitute to
any other Department, and that no person employed as a substitute shall
by reason of such employment be deprived of any right of certification
for a regular place to which he maybe entitled under the rules: _And
provided further_, That service rendered as a substitute shall not be
ground for reinstatement under Departmental Rule X. The time during
which any substitute who shall be appointed to a regular place is
actually employed as such shall be counted as a part of his period of
probation. No substitute shall be employed in any Department otherwise
than as herein provided.

Special Departmental Rule No. 2 is hereby revoked.

BENJ. HARRISON.

[From McPherson's Hand Book of Politics for 1890.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 24, 1890_.

_To the Attorney-General_:

I have had frequent occasion during the last six months to confer
with you in reference to the obstructions offered in the counties of
Leon, Gadsden, Madison, and Jefferson, in the State of Florida, to
the execution of the process of the courts of the United States. It is
not necessary to say more of the situation than that the officers of
the United States are not suffered freely to exercise their lawful
functions. This condition of things can not be longer tolerated. You
will therefore ins