of one person to be named by the head of each of
the Executive Departments which may have articles and materials to be
exhibited at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exhibition,
I hereby direct the persons who have been so designated, viz, Major
and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen C. Lyford, United States Army,
of the War Department, president of the board; Charles S. Hill, of the
Department of State; Lieutenant B.H. Buckingham, United States Navy, of
the Navy Department; William F. McLennan, of the Treasury Department;
Abraham D. Hazen, Assistant Postmaster-General; Benjamin Butterworth,
of the Interior Department; Cecil Clay, of the Department of Justice;
William Saunders, of the Agricultural Department; G. Brown Goode, of the
Smithsonian Institution; London A. Smith, of the Bureau of Education,
Interior Department, to assemble at the Department of State, in the city
of Washington, at noon on the 17th day of May, 1884, and then and there
to organize said board; and said board when so organized shall
immediately proceed to the discharge of its duties.

I also designate W.A. De Caindry as the secretary of said board.

Done at the city of Washington, this 13th day of May, 1884, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and eighth.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

By the President:
FREDK. T. FRELINGHUYSEN,
_Secretary of State_.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, May 26, 1884_.

Under the provisions of section 4 of the act approved March 3, 1883, it
is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the Department
of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Friday,
the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the
decoration of the graves of the soldiers who fell during the rebellion.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

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 special rule for the regulation and
improvement of the executive civil service is hereby promulgated:

SPECIAL RULE.

Any person who was employed on or before the 16th day of January, 1883,
in any Executive Department at Washington in a position not included in
the classified service in said Department, but who was at that date
exclusively engaged in the duties of a clerk or copyist, and who has
since