1891_.

By direction of the President of the United States and in accordance
with the third clause of section 6 of an act entitled "An act to
regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved
January 16, 1883--

_It is ordered_, That all physicians, school superintendents and
assistant superintendents, school-teachers, and matrons in the Indian
service be, and they are hereby, arranged in the following classes,
without regard to salary or compensation:

Class 1. Physicians.

Class 2. School superintendents and assistant superintendents.

Class 3. School-teachers.

Class 4. Matrons.

_Provided_, That no person who may be required by law to be appointed
to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and
that no person who may be employed merely as a laborer or workman or in
connection with any contract schools, shall be considered as within this
classification, and no person so employed shall be assigned to the
duties of a classified place.

_It is further ordered_, That no person shall be admitted to any place
not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of
the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an
appropriate examination under the United States Civil Service Commission
and his or her eligibility has been certified to by said Commission or
the appropriate board of examiners.

JOHN W. NOBLE, _Secretary_.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 13, 1891_.

The Secretary of the Interior:

I approve of the within classification, and if you see no reason to
suggest any further modification you will please put it in force.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

APRIL 13, 1891.

Clause (_c_) of section 2 of General Rule III is hereby revoked, and
clauses (_d_), (_e_), (_f_), (_g_) and (_h_) are lettered, respectively,
(_c_), (_d_), (_e_), (_f_), and (_g_).

BENJ. HARRISON.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 25, 1891_.

_It is hereby ordered_, That the several Executive Departments and the
Government Printing Office be closed on Saturday, the 30th instant, to
enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of
the soldiers and sailors who fell in defense of the Union during the War
of the Rebellion.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., July 6, 1891_.

_To the People of the United States_:

The President, with a p