DMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

JULY 26, 1889.

Section 5 of Railway Mail Rule II is hereby amended by adding an
additional clause, as follows:

(_c_) Printers, employed as such.

Approved:

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _August 17, 1889_.

Clause 5 of Railway Mail Rule II is hereby amended by adding thereto the
following clauses:

(_d_) Clerks employed exclusively as porters in handling mail matter in
bulk, in sacks, or pouches, and not otherwise.

(_e_) Clerks employed exclusively on steamboats.

Approved:

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

AUGUST 20, 1889.

Clause 2 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by
including among the places excepted from examination in the office of
the Supervising Architect the following: "engineers and draftsmen of
classes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, not exceeding ten in all: _Provided_, That
these ten places shall cease to be excepted places from and after June
30, 1890."

As thus amended so much of clause 2 as relates to the office of the
Supervising Architect will read as follows:

In the office of the Supervising Architect: Supervising Architect,
assistant and chief clerk, confidential clerk to Supervising Architect,
photographer, engineers and draftsmen of classes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, not
exceeding ten in all: _Provided_, That these ten places shall cease to
be excepted places from and after June 30, 1890.

Approved:

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

OCTOBER 29, 1889.

Section 2 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding
to the places excepted from examination in the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing the following: "plate cleaners, transferrers, hardeners,
provers, pressmen, machinists, plumbers, carpenters, and blacksmiths."

Approved:

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Section 2 of Railway Mail Rule IV is hereby amended by substituting for
clause (_b_) of said section the following:

(_b_) The Commission shall certify from the register of the State or
Territory in which the vacancy exists the names of the three eligibles
thereon having the highest averages, resident in the counties of said
State or Territory through or on the borders of which the section of the
road passes on which the person to be appointed is to serve, who have
not been three times certified: _Provided_, That if there are n