Chapter IX: Section 6: of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by

striking from the list of excepted places in the Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture enumerated therein the following:

The three professors of meteorology of highest grade.

Said section is further amended by adding thereto the following:

Noncompetitive examinations shall be held, on such dates and at such
places as the Commission may from time to time determine, to test the
competency of inspectors and assistant inspectors in the Bureau of
Animal Industry in the Department of Agriculture employed elsewhere
than at Washington, who were so employed on the date inspectors and
assistant inspectors were included in the classified service and have
been continued in the service of the Department until opportunity has
been provided for their noncompetitive examination. The results of
such examination shall be reported by the Commission to the Secretary
of Agriculture.

Approved, May 1, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 11, 1894_.

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO. I.

Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended by adding to the exceptions from examination therein made in the Department of the Treasury the following:

In the office of the Second Auditor: One skilled laborer with duties
exclusively of a carpenter and cabinetmaker.

In the Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Custodian of proving presses
and modeler.

SPECIAL CUSTOMS RULE NO. I.

Special Customs Rule No. I, authorizing certain exceptions from examination in the classified customs service, is hereby amended by adding to the statement of places therein excepted the following:

In the customs district of Vermont: One deputy collector and inspector,
to be stationed at Halifax during the winter and at Quebec during the
time the St. Lawrence River is open to navigation.

RAILWAY MAIL RULE IV.

Railway Mail Rule IV, section 2, clause (b), of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by striking out all after the word "averages" in line 3 to and including the word "territory" in line 10, and the word "further" in line 10; so that as amended the clause will read:

The Commission shall certify from the register of the State or Territory
in which the vacancy exists the names of the three eligibles thereon
having the highest averages: _Provided_, That if upon the register
of the State or Territory in which the vacancy exists there are the
names of eligibles having a claim of preference under section 1754,
Revised Statutes, the names of such eligibles shall be certified before
the names of other eligibles of higher grade: _Provided further_,
That on a line on which the service does not require the full time of a
clerk, and one can be employed jointly with the railroad company, the
appointment may be made without examination and certification, with the
consent of the Commission, upon a statement of the facts by the general
superintendent; but no clerk so appointed shall be eligible for transfer
or appointment to any other place in the service.

Section 6 of said rule is hereby amended by adding after the word "substitutes" in line 6 the words "resident in the counties which are supplied wholly or in part by the road on which the vacancy exists;" so that as amended the section will read:

6. There may be certified and appointed in each State and Territory, in
the manner provided for in this rule, such number of substitute clerks,
not exceeding the ratio of one substitute to ten regular clerks, in
such State or Territory as the Postmaster-General may authorize, and
any vacancies occurring in class I in any State or Territory in which
substitutes have been appointed shall be filled by the appointment
thereto of those substitutes resident in the counties which are
supplied wholly or in part by the road on which the vacancy exists,
in the order of their appointment as substitutes, without further
certification. The time during which any substitute is actually
employed in the service shall be counted as part of his probation.

GENERAL RULE III.