Chapter IX: Section 1: of Postal Rule II is hereby amended by adding to the subjects

of the clerk examination the following: "Reading addresses and physical tests;" and to the subjects of carrier examination the following: "Reading addresses."

Approved, January 29, 1890.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Customs Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding thereto the following:

In the customs district of New York: Detectives employed exclusively
as such.

Approved, March 10, 1890.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

That part of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey, as printed on page 66 of the Fifth Annual Report of the Commission, is hereby amended by striking out in line 3, after the word "to," the words "general office assistant," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "assistant in charge of office and topography;" so that as amended the clause will read: "confidential clerk to assistant in charge of office and topography."

Approved, March 10, 1890.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

MARCH 28, 1890.

Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section, to be numbered 7:

7. In case of temporary absence, from sickness or other unavoidable
cause, of clerks, copyists, or employees of other grades for which
examinations are held, there may be certified in the manner provided
for in this rule, and employed under such regulations as the heads of
the several Departments shall prescribe, substitutes for such clerks,
copyists, or other employees so absent; and such substitutes so employed
in any Department shall be appointed in the order of their employment
as substitutes to the regular grades of that Department without further
certification as vacancies to which they are eligible may occur therein
while so employed as substitutes, every such appointment to be at once
reported to the Commission: _Provided_, That no person while employed
as a substitute in one Department shall be certified as a substitute to
any other Department, and that no person employed as a substitute shall
by reason of such employment be deprived of any right of certification
for a regular place to which he maybe entitled under the rules: _And
provided further_, That service rendered as a substitute shall not be
ground for reinstatement under Departmental Rule X. The time during
which any substitute who shall be appointed to a regular place is
actually employed as such shall be counted as a part of his period of
probation. No substitute shall be employed in any Department otherwise
than as herein provided.

Special Departmental Rule No. 2 is hereby revoked.

BENJ. HARRISON.

[From McPherson's Hand Book of Politics for 1890.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 24, 1890_.

_To the Attorney-General_:

I have had frequent occasion during the last six months to confer with you in reference to the obstructions offered in the counties of Leon, Gadsden, Madison, and Jefferson, in the State of Florida, to the execution of the process of the courts of the United States. It is not necessary to say more of the situation than that the officers of the United States are not suffered freely to exercise their lawful functions. This condition of things can not be longer tolerated. You will therefore instruct United States Marshal Weeks as soon as he has qualified to proceed at once to execute such writs of arrest as may be placed in his hands. If he apprehends resistance, he will employ such civil posse as may seem adequate to discourage resistance or to overcome it. He should proceed with calmness and moderation, which should always attend a public officer in the execution of his duty, and at the same time with a firmness and courage that will impress the lawless with a wholesome sense of the dangers and futility of resistance. You will assure the officers of the law and those who have foolishly and wickedly thought to set the law at defiance that every resource lodged with the Executive by the Constitution and the laws will as the necessity arises be employed to make it safe and feasible to hold a Federal commission and to execute the duties it imposes.

Very respectfully,

BENJ. HARRISON.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 27, 1890_.

_It is hereby ordered_, That the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office be closed on Friday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers and sailors who fell in defense of the Union during the War of the Rebellion.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION,
_Washington, D.C., May 31, 1890_.

The PRESIDENT.

SIR: This Commission has the honor to recommend that Special Departmental Rule No. 1 be amended by adding to the exceptions from examination therein declared the following:

"In the Department of the Treasury, in the life-saving service: Topographer and hydrographer."

We have the honor to be, your obedient servants,

CHAS. LYMAN,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
HUGH S. THOMPSON,
_United States Civil Service Commissioners_.

Approved, June 3, 1890.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, July 14, 1890_.[10]

The death of John C. Frémont, a major-general on the retired list of the Army of the United States, is an event calling for some appropriate expression of the national sorrow and of a grateful appreciation of his public services. His career was full of adventurous and useful discovery and of devoted and conspicuous service both in civil and military affairs. He opened the passes of the Rocky Mountains and gave value to his discoveries by aiding to create an American State on the Pacific Coast.

_It is therefore ordered_, That the national flag be displayed at half-mast upon all the buildings of the Executive Departments in this city until after the funeral shall have taken place.

By direction of the President:

E.W. HALFORD,
_Private Secretary_.

[Footnote 10: Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.]

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Departmental Rule VIII, section 1, clause (_b_), is hereby amended by inserting after the word "transacted" the following: "and from the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury;" and after the word "Department" where it last occurs the following: "or to said office;" so that as amended the clause will read:

(_b_) From a bureau of the Treasury Department in which business
relating to the customs is transacted and from the office of the
Solicitor of the Treasury to a classified customs district, and from
such a district to such a bureau of the Treasury Department or to said
office, upon requisition by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Approved, July 23, 1890.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

JULY 30, 1890.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination in the Department of Agriculture the following:

Wood engravers.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

SEPTEMBER 2, 1890.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination therein the following:

In the Post-Office Department, office of the Postmaster-General:
Stenographer as confidential clerk to the chief post-office
inspector.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

OCTOBER 31, 1890.