Chapter XXX: Section 5: of Customs Rule II is hereby amended by adding thereto the (1)

following:

(_i_) Any person appointed to a position which requires only a
portion of his time and attention for the performance of its duties,
pays him a compensation not exceeding $300 per annum, and permits of
his pursuing other regular business or occupation, such person being
conveniently located for the performance of said duties.

The section as amended shall read as follows:

5. Exceptions from examination in the classified customs service are
hereby made as follows:

(_a_) Deputy collectors who do not also act as inspectors,
examiners, or clerks.

(_b_) Cashier of the collector.

(_c_) Assistant cashier of the collector.

(_d_) Auditor of the collector.

(_e_) Chief acting disbursing officer.

(_f_) Deputy naval officers.

(_g_) Deputy surveyors.

(_h_) One private secretary or one confidential clerk of each
nominating officer.

(_i_) Any person appointed to a position which requires only a
portion of his time and attention for the performance of its duties,
pays him a compensation not exceeding $300 per annum, and permits of
his pursuing other regular business or occupation, such person being
conveniently located for the performance of said duties.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.--EXTENSION OF THE CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENTAL AND INDIAN SERVICES.

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the third paragraph of section 6 of the act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883, I hereby direct the Secretary of the Interior to amend the classification of the Interior Department so as to include among the positions classified thereunder and subject to competitive examination clerk, assistant clerk, issue clerk, property clerk, storekeeper, and all other clerical positions at Indian agencies and Indian schools; likewise to amend the classification of the Indian service so as to include among the positions classified thereunder supervisor of Indian schools, day-school inspector, disciplinarian, industrial teacher, teacher of industries, kindergarten teacher, farmer, nurse, assistant matron, and seamstress.

But Indians shall be eligible to appointment to any of said positions on such test of fitness as may be required by the Secretary of the Interior and without examination or certification by the Civil Service Commission; but they shall not be transferred from said positions to the departmental service.

Approved, March 20, 1896.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 28, 1896_.

So much of the Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (_c_) as provides for the appointment of members of the board of pension appeals in the Department of the Interior by non-competitive examination is hereby revoked, and these places will hereafter be treated as subject to competitive examination.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 28, 1896_.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1, clause 3, is hereby amended by striking from the list of places excepted from examination in the Department of the Interior assistant attorneys and law clerks, and these places will hereafter be treated as subject to competitive examination.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

In the exercise of power vested in him by the Constitution and of authority given to him by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and by an act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883, the President hereby makes and promulgates the following rules and revokes all others:

RULE I.

1. The United States Civil Service Commission shall have authority to
prescribe regulations in pursuance of and for the execution of the
provisions of these rules and of the civil-service act.

2. The several terms hereinafter mentioned, wherever used in these rules
or the regulations of the Commission, shall be construed as follows:

(_a_) The term "civil-service act" refers to "An act to regulate
and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January
16, 1883.

(_b_) The term "classified service" refers to all that part of the
executive civil service of the United States included within the
provisions of the civil-service act.

(_c_) The term "grade" in connection with employees or positions
refers to a group of employees or positions in the classified service
arranged upon the basis of duties performed, without regard to salaries
received.

(_d_) The term "class" in connection with employees or positions
refers to a group of employees or positions in any grade arranged upon
the basis of salaries received, in pursuance of the provisions of
section 163 of the Revised Statutes and of section 6 of the
civil-service act.

(_e_) The term "excepted position" refers to any position within
the provisions of the civil-service act, but excepted from the
requirement of competitive examination or registration for appointment
thereto.

RULE II.

1. Any person in the executive civil service of the United States who
shall willfully violate any of the provisions of the civil-service act
or of these rules shall be dismissed from office.

2. No person in the executive civil service shall use his official
authority or official influence for the purpose of interfering with an
election or controlling the result thereof.

3. No person in the executive civil service shall dismiss, or cause to
be dismissed, or make any attempt to procure the dismissal of, or in any
manner change the official rank or compensation of, any other person
therein because of his political or religious opinions or affiliations.

4. No question in any examination or form of application shall be so
framed as to elicit information concerning, nor shall any inquiry be
made concerning, nor any other attempt be made to ascertain, the
political or religious opinions or affiliations of any applicant,
competitor, or eligible; and all disclosures thereof shall be
discountenanced, and no discrimination shall be exercised, threatened,
or promised against or in favor of any applicant, competitor, or
eligible because of his political or religious opinions or affiliations.

5. No recommendation of an applicant, competitor, or eligible involving
any disclosure of his political or religious opinions or affiliations
shall be received, filed, or considered by the Commission, by any board
of examiners, or by any nominating or appointing officer.

6. In making removals or reductions or in imposing punishment for
delinquency or misconduct penalties like in character shall be imposed
for like offenses, and action thereupon shall be taken irrespective of
the political or religious opinions or affiliations of the offenders.

7. A person holding a position on the date said position is classified
under the civil-service act shall be entitled to all the rights and
benefits possessed by persons of the same class or grade appointed upon
examination under the provisions of said act.

RULE III.

1. All that part of the executive civil service of the United States
which has been or may hereafter be classified under the civil-service
act shall be arranged in branches as follows: The departmental service,
the custom-house service, the post-office service, the Government
printing service, and the internal-revenue service.

2. The departmental service shall include officers and employees as
follows, except those in the service of the Government Printing Office
and in the service of the several custom-houses, post-offices, and
internal-revenue districts:

(_a_) All officers and employees, of whatever designation, except
persons merely employed as laborers or workmen and persons who have been
nominated for confirmation by the Senate, however or for whatever
purpose employed, whether compensated by a fixed salary or otherwise,
who are serving in or on detail from--

The several Executive Departments, the commissions, and offices
in the District of Columbia.

The railway mail service.

The Indian service.

The several pension agencies.

The steamboat-inspection service.

The marine-hospital service.

The light-house service.

The life-saving service.

The several mints and assay offices.

The revenue-cutter service.

The force employed under custodians of public buildings.

The several subtreasuries.

The engineer department at large.

(_b_) All executive officers and employees outside of the District
of Columbia not covered in (_a_), of whatever designation, whether
compensated by a fixed salary or otherwise--

Who are serving in a clerical capacity or whose duties are in whole or
in part of a clerical nature.

Who are serving in the capacity of watchman or messenger.

Who are serving in the capacity of physician, hospital steward, nurse,
or whose duties are of a medical nature.

Who are serving in the capacity of draftsman, civil engineer, steam
engineer, electrical engineer, computer, or fireman.

Who are in the service of the Supervising Architect's Office in the
capacity of superintendent of construction, superintendent of repair,
or foreman.

Who are in the service of the Treasury Department in any capacity
except those in the life-saving service.

3. The custom-house service shall include the officers and employees
serving in any customs district whose employees number as many as five
who have been or may hereafter be classified under the civil-service
act; and whenever in any customs district whose officers and employees
number less than five the number of officers and employees shall be
increased to as many as five the Secretary of the Treasury shall at once
notify the Commission of such increase and the officers and employees in
said district shall be included within the classified service from the
date of said increase.

4. The post-office service shall include the officers and employees
in any free-delivery post-office who have been or may hereafter be
classified under the civil-service act; and whenever the free-delivery
system shall be established in any post-office the Postmaster-General
shall at once notify the Commission of such establishment and the
officers or employees of said office shall be included within the
classified service from the date of such establishment; and whenever
by order of the Postmaster-General any post-office shall be
consolidated with and made a part of a free-delivery post-office
the Postmaster-General shall at once notify the Commission of such
consolidation and from the date of said order the employees of the
office thus made a part of the free-delivery office whose names appear
on the roster of the Post-Office Department shall be employees of said
free-delivery office, and the person holding on the date of said order
the position of postmaster at the office thus made a part of said
free-delivery office may be made an employee in said free-delivery
office and may at the time of classification be assigned to any
position therein and given any appropriate designation which the
Postmaster-General may direct.

5. The Government printing service shall include the officers and
employees in the Government Printing Office who have been or may
hereafter be classified under the civil-service act.

6. The internal-revenue service shall include the officers and employees
who have been or may hereafter be classified under the civil-service act
in any internal-revenue district.

7. All officers and employees who have heretofore been classified under
the civil-service act shall be considered as still classified and
subject to the provisions of these rules.

8. The following-mentioned positions or employees shall not be subject
to the provisions of these rules:

(_a_) Any position filled by a person whose place of private
business is conveniently located for the performance of the duties of
said position, or any position filled by a person remunerated in one sum
both for services rendered therein and for necessary rent, fuel, and
lights furnished for the performance of the duties thereof:
_Provided_, That in either case the performance of the duties of
said position requires only a portion of the time and attention of the
occupant, paying him a compensation not exceeding, for his personal
salary only, $300 per annum, and permitting of his pursuing other
regular business or occupation.

(_b_) Any person in the military or naval service of the United
States who is detailed for the performance of civil duties.

(_c_) Any person employed in a foreign country under the State
Department or temporarily employed in a confidential capacity in a
foreign country.

(_d_) Any position whose duties are of a quasi military or quasi
naval character and for the performance of whose duties a person is
enlisted for a term of years.

RULE IV.

1. In pursuance of the provisions of section 2 of the civil-service act,
there shall be provided, to test fitness for admission to positions
which have been or may hereafter be classified under the civil-service
act, examinations of a practical and suitable character involving such
subjects and tests as the Commission may direct.

2. No person shall be appointed to or be employed in any position which
has been or may hereafter be classified under the civil-service act
until he shall have passed the examination provided therefor or unless
he is especially exempt from examination by the provisions of said act
or the rules made in pursuance thereof.

3. In pursuance of the provisions of section 2 of the civil-service act,
wherever competent persons can be found who are willing to compete, no
noncompetitive examination shall be given except as follows:

(_a_) To test fitness for transfer or for promotion in a part of
the service to which promotion regulations have not been applied.

(_b_) To test fitness for appointment of Indians as
superintendents, teachers, teachers of industries, kindergartners, and
physicians in the Indian service at large.

The noncompetitive examinations of Indians for the positions mentioned
shall consist of such tests of fitness, not disapproved by the
Commission, as may be determined upon by the Secretary of the Interior.
A statement of the result of every noncompetitive test and all
appointments, transfers, or promotions based thereon shall be
immediately forwarded to the Commission.

4. In pursuance of the provisions of section 3 of the civil-service act,
examinations shall be provided at such places and upon such dates as the
Commission shall deem most practicable to subserve the convenience of
applicants and the needs of the service.

5. In pursuance of the provisions of section 3 of the civil-service act,
the Commission shall appoint from persons in the Government service such
boards of examiners as it may deem necessary. The members of said boards
shall perform such duties as the Commission may direct in connection
with examinations, appointments, and promotions in any part of the
service which has been or may hereafter be classified. The members of
any board of examiners in the performance of their duties as such shall
be under the direct and sole control and authority of the Commission.
The duties performed by the members of any board of examiners in their
capacity as such shall be considered part of the duties of the office in
which they are serving, and time shall be allowed for the performance of
said duties during the office hours of said office. The members of any
board of examiners shall not all be adherents of one political party
when persons of other political parties are available and competent to
serve upon said board.

6. In pursuance of the provisions of section 3 of the civil-service
act, all executive officers of the United States shall facilitate
civil-service examinations, and postmasters, customs officers,
internal-revenue officers, and custodians of public buildings at places
where such examinations are to be held shall for the purpose of such
examinations permit and arrange for the use of suitable rooms under
their charge and for heating, lighting, and furnishing the same.

RULE V.

1. Every applicant for examination must be a citizen of the United
States, must be of proper age, and must make an application under oath
upon a form prescribed by the Commission and accompanied by such
certificates as may be prescribed.

2. No application for examination shall be accepted from any person
serving in the Army, the Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States
unless the written consent of the head of the department under which
said person is enlisted is filed with his application.

3. The Commission may, in its discretion, refuse to examine an applicant
or to certify an eligible who is physically so disabled as to be
rendered unfit for the performance of the duties of the position to
which he seeks appointment, or who has been guilty of a crime or of
infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct, or who has been dismissed
from the service for delinquency or misconduct within one year next
preceding the date of his application, or who has intentionally made a
false statement in any material fact or practiced or attempted to
practice any deception or fraud in securing his registration or
appointment. Any of the foregoing disqualifications shall be good cause
for the removal of an eligible from the service after his appointment.

4. No application for examination shall be accepted unless the applicant
is within the age limitations fixed herein for entrance to the position
to which he seeks to be appointed: _Provided_, That, subject to the
other conditions of these rules, the application of any person whose
claim of preference under the provisions of section 1754 of the Revised
Statutes has been allowed by the Commission may be accepted without
regard to his age. The age limitations for entrance to positions in the
different branches of the service shall be as follows:

Minimum. Maximum.

Departmental service:

Page or messenger boy 14 18
Apprentice (or student) 16 20
Printer's assistant and messenger 18 No limit.
Positions in railway mail service 18 35
Superintendent, physician, supervisor, day-school
inspector, Indian service 25 55
All other positions in the Indian service 21 45
All other positions 20 No limit.

(These limitations shall not apply in the cases
of wives of superintendents of Indian schools who
apply for examination for the position of teacher
or matron.)

Custom-house service:

Clerk and messenger 20 No limit.
Other positions 21 No limit.

Post-office service:

Letter carrier 21 40
Other positions 18 No limit.
Government printing service:
All positions (male) 21 No limit.
All positions (female) 18 No limit.
Internal-revenue service:
Clerk 18 No limit.
Other positions 21 No limit.

5. No application shall be accepted for examination for a position which
belongs to one of the recognized mechanical trades unless it shall be
shown that the applicant has served as apprentice or as journeyman or as
apprentice and journeyman at said trade for such periods as the
Commission may prescribe.

RULE VI.

The following-named employees or positions which have been or may
hereafter be classified under the civil-service act shall be excepted
from the requirement of examination or registration:

_Departmental service_.--(_a_) Private secretaries or
confidential clerks (not exceeding two) to the President or to the head
of each of the eight Executive Departments; (_b_) Indians employed
in the Indian service at large, except those employed as
superintendents, teachers, teachers of industries, kindergartners, and
physicians.

_Custom-house service_.--(_a_) One cashier in each customs
district; (_b_) one chief or principal deputy or assistant
collector in each customs district whose employees number as many as
150.

_Post-office service_.--(_a_) One assistant postmaster, or
chief assistant to the postmaster, of whatever designation, at each
post-office; (_b_) one cashier of each first-class post-office when
employed under the roster title of cashier only.

_Internal-revenue service_.--One cashier in each internal-revenue
district.

RULE VII.

1. Examination papers shall be rated on a scale of 100, and the subjects
therein shall be given such relative weights as the Commission may
prescribe. After a competitor's papers have been rated he shall be duly
notified of the result thereof.

2. Every competitor who attains an average percentage of 70 or over
shall be eligible for appointment to the position for which he was
examined, and the names of eligibles shall be entered in the order of
their average percentages on the proper register of eligibles:
_Provided_, That the names of all competitors whose claims to
preference under the provisions of section 1754 of the Revised Statutes
have been allowed by the Commission, and who attain an average
percentage of 65 or over, shall be placed in the order of their average
percentages at the head of the proper register of eligibles.

3. For filling vacancies in positions for which competitive tests are
not practicable the registration of applicants shall be in the order in
which they fulfill the requirements prescribed therefor by regulation of
the Commission: _Provided_, That persons who served in the military
or naval service of the United States in the late War of the Rebellion
and were honorably discharged therefrom, and persons who have been
separated from such positions above mentioned through no delinquency or
misconduct, shall be placed at the head of the proper register in the
order of their fulfillment of said requirements.

4. The term of eligibility shall be one year from the date on which the
name of the eligible is entered upon the register.

RULE VIII.

In pursuance of the provisions of section 2 of the civil-service
act, whenever a vacancy occurs in any position which has been or may
hereafter be classified under the civil-service act, and which is not
an excepted position, the filling of said vacancy, unless filled through
noncompetitive examination or by reinstatement, transfer, promotion, or
reduction, shall be governed as follows:

1. The appointing or nominating officer shall request certification
to him of the names of eligibles for the position vacant, and the
Commission shall certify to said officer from the proper register
the three names at the head thereof which have not been three times
certified to the Department or office in which the vacancy exists:
_Provided_, That certification for temporary appointment shall not
be counted as one of the three certifications to which an eligible is
entitled: _And provided further_, That whenever the sex of those
whose names are to be certified is fixed by any law, rule, or regulation
or is specified in the request for certification the names of those of
the sex so fixed or specified shall be certified, but in other cases
certification shall be made without regard to sex.

2. Of the three names certified the nominating or appointing officer
shall select one, and if at the time of selection there are more
vacancies than one he may select more than one name, unless otherwise
directed by the Commission.

3. If an eligible who is not entitled to certification is certified and
appointed, his appointment shall be immediately revoked by the
appointing officer upon notification from the Commission.

4. A person selected for appointment shall be notified of his selection
by the appointing or nominating officer, and upon his acceptance shall
receive from the appointing officer a certificate of appointment for a
probationary period of six months, at the end of which period, if the
conduct and capacity of the probationer are satisfactory to the
appointing officer, his retention in the service shall be equivalent to
his absolute appointment; but if his conduct or capacity be not
satisfactory he shall be notified by the appointing officer that he will
not receive absolute appointment because of such unsatisfactory conduct
or want of capacity, and such notification shall discharge him from the
service: _Provided_, That the probation of an employee in the
Indian-school service shall terminate at the end of the school year in
which he is appointed: _And provided further_, That the time which
an employee has actually served as substitute in parts of the service
where substitutes are authorized shall be counted as part of the
probationary period of his regular appointment, but that time served
under a temporary appointment shall not be so counted.

5. If the appointing or nominating officer shall object to an eligible
named in the certificate, stating that because of some physical defect,
mental unsoundness, or moral disqualification, particularly specified,
said eligible would be incompetent or unfit for the performance of the
duties of the vacant position, and if said officer shall sustain such
objection with evidence satisfactory to the Commission, the Commission
may certify the eligible on the register who is in average percentage
next below those already certified in place of the one to whom objection
is made and sustained.

6. Certifications for appointment of persons for service in or on direct
detail from any Department or office in Washington, D.C., shall be so
made as to maintain as nearly as possible the apportionment of such
appointments among the several States and Territories and District of
Columbia upon the basis of population, except to appointments in the
Government Printing Office, to the position of printer's assistant,
skilled helper, and operative in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
to positions in the post quartermaster's office, in the pension agency,
and other local offices in the District of Columbia, and to the
positions of page and messenger boy and apprentice or student.

7. Within any part of the service to which promotion regulations have
been or may hereafter be applied certification of those eligible to
original appointment shall not be made for filling a vacancy in a
position above the lowest class in any grade whenever there is any
person eligible and willing to be promoted to said vacancy:
_Provided_, That a vacancy in any position requiring the exercise
of technical or professional knowledge may be filled by original
appointment.

8. When two or more eligibles on a register have the same average
percentage, preference in certification shall be determined by the order
in which their applications were filed.

9. For filling vacancies in positions outside of the District
of Columbia and in positions in the pension agency, the depot
quartermaster's office, and other local offices in the District of
Columbia the territory of the United States shall be arranged in
such sections or districts as the Commission may determine, and an
eligible shall be certified in his order to vacancies in the section
or district in which he resides, and, upon his written request, to
vacancies in any one or more of the other sections or districts:
_Provided_, That in the custom-house service, post-office service,
or internal-revenue service an eligible shall be certified only to
vacancies in the customs district, post-office, or internal-revenue
district where he was examined.

10. In any part of the service in which the employment of substitutes is
not prohibited by law there may be certified and appointed in the manner
provided for in this rule only such number of substitutes as are
actually needed for the performance of substitute duty.

11. In any part of the service in which substitutes are employed
certifications of those eligible to original appointment shall be made
for filling vacancies in substitute positions only, and vacancies in
regular positions shall be filled by the appointment or promotion
thereto of substitutes in the order of their original appointment as
substitutes whenever there are substitutes of the required sex who are
eligible and willing to be so appointed or promoted. Substitutes so
appointed or promoted shall, however, be subject to the provisions of
these rules relating to probation and permanent appointment.

12. Upon request of the appointing or nominating officer preference
in certification may be given to the wife of the superintendent of an
Indian school for filling a vacancy in the position of teacher or matron
in said school.

13. Whenever there shall occur a vacancy which the public interest
requires shall be immediately filled and which can not be so filled in
time to meet the emergency by certification from the eligible registers,
such vacancy may, subject to the approval of the Commission, be filled
by temporary appointment without examination until a regular appointment
can be made. Such temporary appointment shall in no case continue longer
than ninety days, and shall expire by limitation at the end of that
time. No person shall serve longer than ninety days in any one year
under such temporary appointment or appointments, and in any event only
until a regular appointment can be made through examination and
certification. Said year limitation shall begin to run in the case of
any person on the date of his first such appointment: _Provided_,
That whenever an emergency shall arise requiring that a vacant position
in any internal-revenue district shall be filled before a certificate
can be issued by the Commission and an appointment made thereto in the
manner provided in these rules such position may be filled without
regard to the provisions of these rules by temporary appointment for a
period not to exceed thirty days, and only for such period as may be
required for the execution of the necessary details of an appointment
thereto in accordance with said provisions; but no person shall receive
such temporary appointment who within the ninety days next previous
thereto has been separated from a position in said district to which he
was temporarily appointed under the provisions of this section.

14. Whenever a temporary appointment shall be made through certification
from the eligible registers of the Commission in the manner provided in
these rules, such temporary appointment shall in no case continue longer
than six months, and shall expire by limitation at the end of that
period.

RULE IX.

A vacancy in any position which has been or may hereafter be classified
under the civil service act may, upon requisition of the proper officer
and the certificate of the Commission, be filled by the reinstatement
without examination of any person who within one year next preceding the
date of said requisition has through no delinquency or misconduct been
separated from a classified position at the date of said requisition and
in that Department or office and that branch of the service in which
said vacancy exists: _Provided_, That for original entrance to the
position proposed to be filled by reinstatement there is not required by
these rules, in the opinion of the Commission, an examination involving
essential tests different from or higher than those involved in the
examination for original entrance to the position formerly held by the
person proposed to be reinstated: _And provided further_, That,
subject to the other conditions of these rules, any person who served in
the military or naval service of the United States in the late War of
the Rebellion and was honorably discharged therefrom, or the widow of
any such person, may be reinstated without regard to the length of time
he or she has been separated from the service.

RULE X.

Within that part of the civil service of the United States which has
been or may hereafter be classified under the civil-service act
transfers shall be governed as follows:

1. A person in any Department or office may be transferred within the
same Department or office and the same branch of the service upon any
test of fitness, not disapproved by the Commission, which may be
determined upon by the appointing officer, subject to the limitations of
the provisos of section 2 of this rule.

2. A person who has received absolute appointment may be transferred
without examination from any Department, office, or branch of the
service upon requisition and consent of the proper officers and the
certificate of the Commission: _Provided_, That no transfer shall
be made of a person to a position within the same Department or office
and the same branch of the service, or to a position in another
Department, office, or branch of the service, if from original entrance
to such position said person is barred by the age limitations prescribed
therefor or by the provisions regulating apportionment, or if in said
position there is not required, in the judgment of the Commission, the
performance of the same class of work or the practice of the same
mechanical trade performed or practiced in the position from which
transfer is proposed: _And provided further_, That transfer shall
not be made without examination, provided by the Commission, to a
position for original entrance to which, in the judgment of the
Commission, there is required by these rules an examination involving
essential tests different from or higher than those involved in the
examination required for original entrance to the position from which
transfer is proposed; but a person employed in any grade shall not
because of such employment be barred from the open competitive
examination provided for original entrance to any other grade.

3. Upon requisition of the proper officer and the certificate of the
Commission transfer may be made without examination from the office of
the President of the United States, after continuous service therein for
the two years next preceding the date of said requisition, to any
position classified under the civil-service act, if in said position
there is required, in the judgment of the Commission, the performance of
the same class of work that is required to be performed in the position
from which transfer is proposed.

4. Transfer shall not be made from an excepted position to a position
not excepted: _Provided_, That a person holding an excepted
position at the time said position is classified under the civil-service
act, or a person holding an excepted position which he entered prior to
the President's order of November 2, 1894, may, subject to the other
conditions and provisions of this rule, be transferred to a position not
excepted.

5. Transfer shall not be made from a position not classified under the
civil-service act to a classified position: _Provided_, That a
person who by promotion or transfer from a classified position has
entered a position appointment to which is made by the President by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, and has served continuously
therein from the date of said promotion or transfer, may be transferred
from said Presidential appointment to the position from which he was so
transferred or to any position to which transfer could be made
therefrom.

6. Transfer shall not be made from a position outside the District of
Columbia to a position within the District of Columbia except upon the
certificate of the Commission, subject to the other conditions and
provisions of this rule.

7. Any person who has been transferred from a classified position to
another classified position may be retransferred to the position in
which he was formerly employed or to any position to which transfer
could be made therefrom without regard to the limitations of this rule.

8. All transfers herein authorized shall be made only after the issuance
by the Commission of the certificates therefor, except those which may
be specifically exempted from such condition by regulation of the
Commission.

9. Whenever a person is proposed for transfer from one branch of the
service to another branch of the service and from a part of the service
not within the provisions regulating apportionment to a part of the
service within said provisions, and the transfer is one which under the
provisions of this rule may be allowed without examination, such person
shall be required precedent to his transfer to file a statement under
oath setting forth the same facts, accompanied by the same certificates
or vouchers relating to residence, as may be required in an application
for examination.

RULE XI.

1. In pursuance of the requirements of section 7 of the civil-service
act, competitive tests or examinations shall, as far as practicable and
useful, be established to test fitness for promotion in any part of the
civil service of the United States which has been or may hereafter be
classified under the civil-service act.

2. The details regulating promotions shall be formulated by the
Commission after consultation with the heads of the several Departments,
bureaus, or offices. It shall be the duty of the head of each
Department, bureau, or office when such regulations have been formulated
to promulgate the same, and any amendments or revocations thereof shall
be approved by the Commission before going into effect.

3. The Commission shall, upon the nomination of the head of each
Department, bureau, or office, designate and select a suitable number of
persons, not less than three, in said Department, bureau, or office to
be members of a board of promotion. In the Departments, bureaus, or
offices in Washington and in all other offices the members of any board
of examiners shall not all be adherents of one political party when
persons of other political parties are available and competent to serve
upon said board.

4. Until the regulations herein authorized have been approved for any
Department, bureau, or office in which promotion regulations approved by
the Commission are not in force promotions therein may be made from one
class to another class which is in the same grade and from one grade to
another grade upon any test of fitness, not disapproved by the
Commission, which may be determined upon by the promoting officer:
_Provided_, That no promotion of a person shall be made, except
upon examination provided by the Commission, from one class to another
class or from one grade to another grade if for original entrance to
said class or grade to which promotion is proposed there is required by
these rules an examination involving essential tests different from or
higher than those involved in the examination required for original
entrance to the class or grade from which promotion is proposed: _And
provided further_, That no promotion of a person shall be made,
except upon examination provided by the Commission, to a position in
which, in the judgment of the Commission, there is not required the
performance of the same class of work or the practice of the same
mechanical trade which is required to be performed or practiced in the
position from which promotion is proposed; but a person employed in any
grade shall not because of such employment be barred from the open
competitive examination provided for original entrance to any other
grade: _And provided further_, That no promotion of a person shall
be made to a class or grade from original entrance to which such person
is barred by the age limitations prescribed therefor or by the
provisions regulating apportionment.

RULE XII.

1. In pursuance of the provisions of section 2 of the civil-service act
every nominating or appointing officer in the executive civil service of
the United States shall furnish to the Commission a list of all the
positions and employments under his control and authority, together with
the names, designations, compensations, and dates of appointment or
employment of all persons serving in said positions or employments, said
list to be arranged as follows: (_a_) Classified positions not
excepted from examination; (_b_) classified positions excepted from
examination; (_c_) unclassified positions.

2. Every nominating or appointing officer in the executive civil service
shall report in detail to the Commission, in form and manner to be
prescribed by the Commission, all changes as soon as made, and the dates
thereof, in the service under his control and authority, setting forth
among other things the following: The position to which an appointment
or reinstatement is made; the position from which a separation is made,
whether the same was caused by dismissal, resignation, or death, and the
position from which and the position to which a transfer or promotion is
made; the compensation of every position from which or to which a change
is made; the name of every person appointed, reinstated, promoted,
transferred, or separated from the service, and every failure to accept
an appointment and the reasons therefor.

Approved, May 6, 1896.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., May 7, 1896_.

In the exercise of the authority vested in the President by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third (1753d) section of the Revised Statutes--

_It is ordered_, That the office of the Interstate Commerce Commission be, and the same is hereby, classified as a part of the classified departmental service, and for the purpose of applying the civil-service rules thereto the officers, clerks, and other employees of said Commission are hereby arranged in the following classes, viz:

_Class A_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of less than $720, or a compensation at the rate of less than $720 per annum.

_Class B_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $720 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $720 or more, but less than $840 per annum.

_Class C_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $840 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $840 or more, but less than $900 per annum.

_Class D_.--All persons receiving a salary of $900 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $900 or more, but less than $1,000 per annum.

_Class E_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,000 or more, but less than $1,200 per annum.

_Class 1_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,200 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,200 or more, but less than $1,400 per annum.

_Class 2_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,400 or more per annum, or a compensation at the rate of $1,400 or more, but less than $1,600 per annum.

_Class 3_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,600 or more per annum, or an annual compensation at the rate of $1,600 or more, but less than $1,800 per annum.

_Class 4_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,800 or more per annum, or a compensation at the rate of $1,800 or more, but less than $2,000 per annum.

_Class 5_.--All persons receiving an annual salary of $2,000 or more or a compensation at the rate of $2,000 or more per annum.

_Provided_, That no person who may be appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and that no person who may be employed merely as a workman or laborer shall be considered as within this classification, and no person so employed shall be assigned to the duties of a classified place.

_Provided further_, That no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an appropriate examination under the United States Civil Service Commission and his or her eligibility has been certified to by said Commission.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 13, 1896_.

The civil-service rules are hereby amended as follows:

Rule III, clause 2 (_a_), is amended by adding after the words "the light-house service" the words "the life-saving service."

Paragraph (_b_) of the same rule and clause is amended by striking out after the words "who are in the service of the Treasury Department in any capacity" the words "except those in the life-saving service."

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as follows:

Rule I, section 2, clause (_b_): In the third line, after the word "act," insert "and these rules;" so that as amended the clause will read:

(_b_) The term "classified service" refers to all that part of
the executive civil service of the United States included within the
provisions of the civil-service act and these rules.

Rule III, section 2, clause (_a_), is amended by adding thereto the following clause:

The Ordnance Department at large.

Rule III, section 2, clause (_a_), is amended by striking out after "persons" in the third line the words "who have been nominated for" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "whose appointments are subject to."

Rule III, section 2 clause (_b_), is amended by inserting in the second line, after the word "designation," the words "except persons merely employed as laborers or workmen and persons whose appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate."

Rule III, section 2, clause (_b_), is amended by adding thereto the following words:

Who are employed in the Department of Justice under the annual
appropriation for the investigation of official acts, records, and
accounts of officers of the courts.

Rule III, section 3, is amended to read as follows:

3. The custom-house service shall include such officers and employees as
have been or may hereafter he classified under the civil-service act who
are serving in any customs district whose officers and employees number
as many as five; and whenever in any customs district whose officers and
employees number less than five the number of officers and employees
shall be increased to as many as five the Secretary of the Treasury
shall at once notify the Commission of such increase, and the officers
and employees of said district shall be included within the classified
service from the date of said increase.

Rule III, section 6, is amended by inserting in the second line, after the word "employees," the following: "in any internal-revenue district;" and in the third line, after the word "act," by striking out the following: "in any internal-revenue district;" so that as amended the section will read:

6. The internal-revenue service shall include the officers and
employees in any internal-revenue district who have been or may
hereafter be classified under the civil-service act.

Rule VI is amended by adding in the departmental service an additional clause, making exceptions from examination, to read as follows:

(_c_) Attorneys or assistant attorneys in any Department whose
main duties are connected with the management of cases in court.

Amend Rule VI by striking out after "internal-revenue service" the words "one cashier in each internal-revenue district" and inserting in lieu thereof--

One employee in each internal-revenue district who shall act as cashier
or chief deputy or assistant collector, as may be determined by the
Treasury Department.

Amend Rule VIII by striking out section 3.

Rule IX is amended by striking out in the seventh line the word "classified" and inserting in lieu thereof after the word "position" in the same line the following: "included within the classified service;" so that as amended the line will read: "misconduct, been separated from a position included within the classified service at the."

Rule XI, section 2, is amended by striking out in line 1 the words "The details regulating" and inserting in their stead the words "Regulations to govern;" so that as amended the section will read:

2. Regulations to govern promotions shall be formulated by the
Commission after consultation with the heads of the several Departments,
bureaus, and offices. It shall be the duty of the head of each
Department, bureau, or office when such regulations have been formulated
to promulgate the same, and any amendments or revocations thereof shall
be approved by the Commission before going into effect.

Rule XI, section 3: The word "examiners" in line 7 is changed to "promotion," making the section read:

3. The Commission shall, upon the nomination of the head of each
Department, bureau, or office, designate and select a suitable number
of persons, not less than three, in said Department, bureau, or office
to be members of a board of promotion. In the Departments, bureaus, or
offices in Washington and in all other offices the members of any board
of promotion shall not all be adherents of one political party when
persons of other political parties are available and competent to serve
upon said board.

Approved, November 2, 1896.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE--EXECUTIVE ORDER.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _November 2, 1896_.

The regulations of the Navy Department governing the employment of labor at navy-yards having been adopted by the Civil Service Commission as a regulation of the Commission July 29, 1896, under the authority conferred by clause 1, Rule 1, of the revised civil-service rules of May 6, 1896, it is hereby ordered that no modification of the existing regulations shall be made without the approval of the Civil Service Commission.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

FOURTH ANNUAL MESSAGE.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 7, 1896_.

_To the Congress of the United States_:

As representatives of the people in the legislative branch of their Government, you have assembled at a time when the strength and excellence of our free institutions and the fitness of our citizens to enjoy popular rule have been again made manifest. A political contest involving momentous consequences, fraught with feverish apprehension, and creating aggressiveness so intense as to approach bitterness and passion has been waged throughout our land and determined by the decree of free and independent suffrage without disturbance of our tranquillity or the least sign of weakness in our national structure.

When we consider these incidents and contemplate the peaceful obedience and manly submission which have succeeded a heated clash of political opinions, we discover abundant evidence of a determination on the part of our countrymen to abide by every verdict of the popular will and to be controlled at all times by an abiding faith in the agencies established for the direction of the affairs of their Government.

Thus our people exhibit a patriotic disposition which entitles them to demand of those who undertake to make and execute their laws such faithful and unselfish service in their behalf as can only be prompted by a serious appreciation of the trust and confidence which the acceptance of public duty invites.

In obedience to a constitutional requirement I herein submit to the Congress certain information concerning national affairs, with the suggestion of such legislation as in my judgment is necessary and expedient. To secure brevity and avoid tiresome narration I shall omit many details concerning matters within Federal control which, though by no means unimportant, are more profitably discussed in departmental reports. I shall also further curtail this communication by omitting a minute recital of many minor incidents connected with our foreign relations which have heretofore found a place in Executive messages, but are now contained in a report of the Secretary of State, which is herewith submitted.

At the outset of a reference to the more important matters affecting our relations with foreign powers it would afford me satisfaction if I could assure the Congress that the disturbed condition in Asiatic Turkey had during the past year assumed a less hideous and bloody aspect and that, either as a consequence of the awakening of the Turkish Government to the demands of humane civilization or as the result of decisive action on the part of the great nations having the right by treaty to interfere for the protection of those exposed to the rage of mad bigotry and cruel fanaticism, the shocking features of the situation had been mitigated. Instead, however, of welcoming a softened disposition or protective intervention, we have been afflicted by continued and not infrequent reports of the wanton destruction of homes and the bloody butchery of men, women, and children, made martyrs to their profession of Christian faith.

While none of our citizens in Turkey have thus far been killed or wounded, though often in the midst of dreadful scenes of danger, their safety in the future is by no means assured. Our Government at home and our minister at Constantinople have left nothing undone to protect our missionaries in Ottoman territory, who constitute nearly all the individuals residing there who have a right to claim our protection on the score of American citizenship. Our efforts in this direction will not be relaxed; but the deep feeling and sympathy that have been aroused among our people ought not to so far blind their reason and judgment as to lead them to demand impossible things. The outbreaks of blind fury which lead to murder and pillage in Turkey occur suddenly and without notice, and an attempt on our part to force such a hostile presence there as might be effective for prevention or protection would not only be resisted by the Ottoman Government, but would be regarded as an interruption of their plans by the great nations who assert their exclusive right to intervene in their own time and method for the security of life and property in Turkey.

Several naval vessels are stationed in the Mediterranean as a measure of caution and to furnish all possible relief and refuge in case of emergency.

We have made claims against the Turkish Government for the pillage and destruction of missionary property at Harpoot and Marash during uprisings at those places. Thus far the validity of these demands has not been admitted, though our minister, prior to such outrages and in anticipation of danger, demanded protection for the persons and property of our missionary citizens in the localities mentioned and notwithstanding that strong evidence exists of actual complicity of Turkish soldiers in the work of destruction and robbery.

The facts as they now appear do not permit us to doubt the justice of these claims, and nothing will be omitted to bring about their prompt settlement.

A number of Armenian refugees having arrived at our ports, an order has lately been obtained from the Turkish Government permitting the wives and children of such refugees to join them here. It is hoped that hereafter no obstacle will be interposed to prevent the escape of all those who seek to avoid the perils which threaten them in Turkish dominions.

Our recently appointed consul to Erzerum is at his post and discharging the duties of his office, though for some unaccountable reason his formal exequatur from the Sultan has not been issued.

I do not believe that the present somber prospect in Turkey will be long permitted to offend the sight of Christendom. It so mars the humane and enlightened civilization that belongs to the close of the nineteenth century that it seems hardly possible that the earnest demand of good people throughout the Christian world for its corrective treatment will remain unanswered.