this rule, and when such regular appointment is made the
temporary appointment shall terminate. All temporary appointments made
under this authority and their termination shall at once be reported to
the Commission.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., May 5, 1892_.

In the exercise of the authority vested in the President by the
seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes--

_It is ordered_, That the office of the United States Commission of Fish
and Fisheries be, and the same is hereby, classified as a part of the
classified departmental service and for the purpose of applying the
civil-service rules thereto the officers, clerks, and other employees of
said Commission are hereby arranged in the following classes, viz:

_Class A_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of less than $720, or a
compensation at the rate of less than $720 per annum.

_Class B_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $720 or more, or a
compensation at the rate of $720 or more, but less than $840 per annum.

_Class C_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $840 or more, or a
compensation at the rate of $840 or more, but less than $900 per annum.

_Class D_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $900 or more, or
a compensation at the rate of $900 or more, but less than $1,000 per
annum.

_Class E_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or more, or
a compensation at the rate of $1,000 or more, but less than $1,200 per
annum.

_Class 1_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,200 or more, or
a compensation at the rate of $1,200 or more, but less than $1,400 per
annum.

_Class 2_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,400 or more, or
a compensation at the rate of $1,400 or more, but less than $1,600 per
annum.

_Class 3_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,600 or more, or
a compensation at the rate of $1,600 or more, but less than $1,800 per
annum.

_Class 4_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,800 or more, or
a compensation at the rate of $1,800 or more, but less than $2,000 per
annum.

_Class 5_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $2,000 or more, or a
compensation at the rate of $2,000 per annum.

_Provided_, That no person who may 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 messenger, laborer, workman, or watchman, shal