; otherwise sex shall be disregarded in such certification.

4. No person upon any register shall be certified more than four times
to the same officer in the customs or postal service or more than three
times to any Department at Washington, unless upon request of the
appointing officer; nor shall anyone remain eligible more than one
year upon any register; but these restrictions shall not extend to
examinations under clause 5 of Rule VII. No person while remaining
eligible on any register shall be admitted to a new examination, and
no person having failed upon any examination shall within six months
thereafter be admitted to another examination without the consent of
the Commission.

5. Any person appointed to or employed in any part of the classified
service, after due certification for the same under these rules, who
shall be dismissed or separated therefrom without fault or delinquency
on his part, may be reappointed or reemployed in the same part or grade
of such service in the same Department or office within one year next
following such dismissal or separation, without further examination,
on such certification as the Commission may provide.

Approved, February 11, 1885.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 11, 1885_.

Under the provisions of section 4 of the act of Congress 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 Saturday, the 21st instant, to enable the employees to
participate in the ceremonies attending the dedication of the Washington
Monument.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

_Washington, D.C., February 26, 1885_.

Attention is called to the following section of the act of May 17, 1884,
entitled "An act providing a civil government for Alaska:"

"SEC. 14. That the provisions of chapter 3, Title XXIII, of the Revised
Statutes of the United States, relating to the unorganized Territory of
Alaska, shall remain in full force except as herein specially otherwise
provided; and the importation, manufacture, and sale of intoxicating
liquors in said district, except for medicinal, mechanical, and
scientific purposes, is hereby prohibited under the penalties which are
provided in section 1955 of the Revised Statutes for the wrongful
importation of distilled spirits; and the President of t