representative will be held responsible to the head of his
respective Department for all public property of the United States
furnished by the head of such Department or otherwise coming to his
hands for the purposes of the exposition, and will render proper
accounts of the same to such head of Department until the property
is returned.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 10, 1884_.

The participation of the several Executive Departments, the Department
of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution in the Cincinnati
Industrial Exposition at Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Southern Exposition
at Louisville, Ky., as contemplated by the "act making appropriations
for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1885, and for other purposes," is hereby placed under the
management of the board referred to in Executive order of July 8, 1884,
relating to the participation of said Departments and Institution in the
World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884-85, the
provisions of which order being hereby extended to embrace said
Cincinnati and Louisville expositions.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 16, 1884_.

No appropriation having been specifically made for the participation of
the Bureau of Education, Interior Department, in the World's Industrial
and Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, La., the Industrial
Exposition, Cincinnati, Ohio, or the Southern Exposition, Louisville,
Ky., the representative on behalf of that Bureau in the board appointed
by Executive order of May 13, 1884,[18] is relieved from further duty as
a member of the board, and the display of that Bureau will be made as a
part of the exhibit of the Interior Department out of the moneys
appropriated for the participation of that Department in said
expositions.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

[Footnote 18: See pp. 230-231.]

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

The names of all persons who shall have successfully passed their
examination under the civil-service rules previous to July 16, 1884, may
remain on the register of persons eligible for appointment two