Provided, That a person may be
transferred from a place in one
Department to a place requiring no higher
examination in another
Department without examination.
Departmental Rule IX: Strike out the whole of section 1 and insert in lieu thereof the following:
1. Until promotion regulations have
been applied to a Department under
the provisions of section 6 of General
Rule III promotions therein may
be made as follows:
(a) Any person appointed from the appropriate register to the position of messenger, assistant messenger, watchman, or other subordinate position below the positions of clerk and copyist may at any time after absolute appointment, if not barred by age limitations, be transferred to any other of said subordinate positions, but shall not be promoted to the position of clerk or copyist or to any place the duties of which are clerical: Provided, That printers’ assistants in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department, shall only be eligible for transfer to the grade of operative in that Bureau.
Strike out sections 2, 3, and 5 and renumber section 4 as 2.
Approved, March 2, 1895.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 18, 1895.
Indian Rule IV is amended by adding at the end thereof a new section, to read as follows:
7. Graduates of Indian normal schools and of normal classes in Indian schools may be employed in the Indian-school service as assistant teachers or day-school teachers without further examination: Provided, That certificates of satisfactory proficiency, of good moral character, and of physical soundness, signed by the proper officials, be transmitted at the time of appointment to the Civil Service Commission: And provided further, That until the 1st of July, 1896, graduates of the senior classes of Carlisle, Hampton, Lincoln Institute, Chilocco, Haskell Institute, and other Indian schools of equal grade may be included in the provisions of this rule. Such teachers shall become eligible for promotion to advanced positions on presentation to the Civil Service Commission of satisfactory certificates of efficiency and fidelity in their work and of a progressive spirit in their professional interests, signed by their immediate official superiors and by the superintendent of Indian schools, and forwarded with his approval by the Secretary of the Interior, the Commission reserving to itself the right to decide as to the satisfactoriness of such certificates.
Approved:
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 20, 1895.
The Executive order dated February 26, 1891,[19] establishing limits of punishment for enlisted men of the Army, under an act of Congress approved September 27, 1890, and which was published in General Orders, No. 21, 1891, Headquarters of the Army, is amended so as to prescribe as follows: