y to be used
in the manufacture thereof, including the cost of a steam hammer or
apparatus of sufficient size for the manufacture of the heaviest guns:

Commodore Edward Simpson, United States Navy; Captain Edmund O.
Matthews, United States Navy; Colonel Thomas G. Baylor, Ordnance
Department, United States Army; Lieutenant-Colonel Henry L. Abbot,
Engineer Corps, United States Army; Major Samuel S. Elder, Second
Artillery, United States Army; Lieutenant William H. Jacques, United
States Navy.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 7, 1883_.

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by, the
Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third
section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved
January 16, 1883, the following rules for the regulation and improvement
of the executive civil service are hereby promulgated:

RULE I.

No person in said service shall use his official authority or influence
either to coerce the political action of any person or body or to
interfere with any election.

RULE II.

No person in the public service shall for that reason be under any
obligations to contribute to any political fund or to render any
political service, and he will not be removed or otherwise prejudiced
for refusing to do so.

RULE III.

It shall be the duty of collectors, postmasters, assistant treasurers,
naval officers, surveyors, appraisers, and custodians of public
buildings at places where examinations are to be held to allow and
arrange for the reasonable use of suitable rooms in the public buildings
in their charge, and for heating, lighting, and furnishing the same for
the purposes of such examinations; and all other executive officers
shall in all legal and proper ways facilitate such examinations and the
execution of these rules.

RULE IV.

1. All officials connected with any office where or for which any
examination is to take place will give the Civil Service Commission and
the chief examiner such information as may be reasonably required to
enable the Commission to select competent and trustworthy examiners; and
the examinations by those selected as examiners, and the work incident
thereto, will be regarded as a part of the public business to be
performed at such office.

2. It shall be the duty of every executive officer promptly to inform
the Commission, in writing, of the removal or discharge from the public
service of any examiner