Chapter XXI: Section 4: is hereby amended as follows: In the third line, after the

word "examination," add the following proviso:

_Provided_, That any person employed in an excepted place in any
office or bureau at the time when said office or bureau is brought
into the classified service, or any person transferred directly from
a nonexcepted to an excepted place in the office or bureau in which he
is serving, may at any time be directly transferred from such excepted
place to any nonexcepted place in the office or bureau in which he is
serving.

The section as amended will read:

4. No person hereafter appointed to a place under the exceptions to
examination made by any departmental rule shall be transferred from
such place to a place not also excepted from examination: _Provided_,
That any person employed in an excepted place in any office or bureau
at the time when said office or bureau is brought into the classified
service, or any person transferred directly from a nonexcepted to an
excepted place in the office or bureau in which he is serving, may at
any time be directly transferred from such excepted place to any
nonexcepted place in the office or bureau in which he is serving.

Approved, July 15, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 15, 1895_.

Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended by striking out the whole of the paragraph in section 3, Department of the Interior, relating to the Geological Survey and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

In the Geological Survey: Professional experts and special agents
employed for short periods at per diem salaries and paid only when
actually employed.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE VII.

Section 2 is hereby amended as follows: At the end of the section, after the word "law," add the following proviso:

_Provided_, That appointments to positions at pension agencies
shall not be charged to the apportionment.

The section as amended will read as follows:

2. Certifications hereunder shall be made in such a manner as to
maintain as nearly as possible the apportionment of appointments among
the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia as
required by law: _Provided_, That appointments to positions at
pension agencies shall not be charged to the apportionment.

Section 3, paragraph 2, is hereby amended as follows: In the second line, after the word "register," insert the following: "or when certification is made from any register to fill a vacancy at any pension agency."

The paragraph as amended will read:

When certification is made from a supplementary or special register or
the printer's assistant or page and messenger-boy register, or when
certification is made from any register to fill a vacancy at any
pension agency, and there are more vacancies than one to be filled,
the appointing officer may select from the three names certified more
than one.