to create an American State on the Pacific
Coast.

_It is therefore ordered_, That the national flag be displayed at
half-mast upon all the buildings of the Executive Departments in this
city until after the funeral shall have taken place.

By direction of the President:

E.W. HALFORD,
_Private Secretary_.

[Footnote 10: Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.]

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Departmental Rule VIII, section 1, clause (_b_), is hereby amended
by inserting after the word "transacted" the following: "and from
the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury;" and after the word
"Department" where it last occurs the following: "or to said office;"
so that as amended the clause will read:

(_b_) From a bureau of the Treasury Department in which business
relating to the customs is transacted and from the office of the
Solicitor of the Treasury to a classified customs district, and from
such a district to such a bureau of the Treasury Department or to said
office, upon requisition by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Approved, July 23, 1890.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

JULY 30, 1890.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the
places excepted from examination in the Department of Agriculture the
following:

Wood engravers.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

SEPTEMBER 2, 1890.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the
places excepted from examination therein the following:

In the Post-Office Department, office of the Postmaster-General:
Stenographer as confidential clerk to the chief post-office
inspector.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

OCTOBER 31, 1890.

Section 7 of Railway Mail Rule IV is hereby amended by inserting in line
7, after the word "days," the following: "or until the emergency ceases."

BENJ. HARRISON.

SECOND ANNUAL MESSAGE.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 7, 1890_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

The reports of the several Executive Departments, which will be laid
before Congress in the usual course, will exhibit in detail the
operations of the Government for the last fiscal year. Only the more
important incidents and results, and chiefly such as may be the
foundation of the recommendations I shall submit, will be referred to
in this annual message.

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