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benevolent designs for our country; He has given us great increase in
material wealth and a wide diffusion of contentment and comfort in the
homes of our people; He has given His grace to the sorrowing.

Wherefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, do call
upon all our people to observe, as we have been wont, Thursday, the 24th
day of this month of November, as a day of thanksgiving to God for His
mercies and of supplication for His continued care and grace.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 4th day of November, 1892, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JOHN W. FOSTER,
_Secretary of State_.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

JANUARY 20, 1892.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding at the end
of paragraph 10 the following: "and elevator conductors;" so that as
amended the paragraph will read:

In all the Departments: Bookbinders and elevator conductors.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION,
_Washington, D.C., January 12, 1892_.

The PRESIDENT.

SIR: We have the honor to recommend that Executive orders heretofore
issued designating the places to be filled by noncompetitive examination
under clause (_d_) of section 2 of General Rule III be amended so as
to include among those places, in all the Departments where authorized
by law and employed, "captains of the watch" and "lieutenants of the
watch." The captains and lieutenants of the watch in the Treasury
Department and the captain of the watch in the Post-Office Department
are now included in this category, and the object of this recommendation
is to place all the Departments on the same footing with respect to
these places.

The occasion for the recommendation at this time is the receipt by
this Commission of a request from the Secretary of the Interior for a
noncompetitive examination of a person named by him for appointment as
captain of the watch in the Interior Department.

The place is now subject to competitive examination, but the Commission
sees no good reason why one rule should not apply to all the
Departments; hence this recommendation.

If you approve the recommendation, your indorsement of approv