tary confinement on bread and water diet for two days'
confinement at hard labor or for $1 of forfeited pay: _Provided_, That a
noncommissioned officer not sentenced to reduction shall not be subject
to confinement: _And provided_, That solitary confinement shall not
exceed fourteen days at one time nor be repeated until fourteen days
have elapsed, and shall not exceed eighty-four days in one year.
Wherever the limit herein prescribed for an offense or offenses may
be brought within the punishing power of inferior courts-martial,
as defined by the eighty-third article of war, by substitution of
punishment under the provisions of this section, the aforesaid courts
shall be deemed to have jurisdiction of such offense or offenses.

VII. Sergeants shall not if they object thereto be brought to trial
before regimental, garrison, or summary courts-martial without the
authority of the officer competent to order their trial by general
court-martial; nor shall sergeants of the post noncommissioned staff
be reduced, but they may be dishonorably discharged whenever reduction
is included in the limit of punishment. Paragraphs 105 and 254 of the
Regulations, the latter as amended by General Orders, No. 67, series
of 1890, Adjutant-General's Office, are modified accordingly.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
REDFIELD PROCTOR,
_Secretary of War_.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

MARCH 4, 1891.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include
among the places excepted from examination therein the following:

In the Department of Agriculture, in the office of the Secretary: Clerk
to act as appointment clerk.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

MARCH 16, 1891.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among
the places excepted from examination therein the following:

In the Post-Office Department, office of the First Assistant
Postmaster-General: Assistant superintendent of free delivery.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

APRIL 3, 1891.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among
the places excepted from examination therein the following:

In the Treasury Department, office of the Secretary: One clerk in the
office of the disbursing clerk.

BENJ. HARRISON.

CIVIL SERVICE--CLASSIFICATION OF INDIAN SERVICE.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, _Washington, April 13,