EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 15, 1895.

Whereas on November 2, 1894, Departmental Rule II, section 4, Customs Rule II, section 6, Postal Rule II, section 6, Railway Mail Rule II, section 6, were amended to declare that no person appointed to a place under any exception to examination should be transferred from such place to another place not also excepted from examination; and

Whereas it was not my intention that these several amendments should be retroactive in their effect: 

I therefore direct that the word “hereafter” be inserted after the word “person” in the first line of each of said sections as of the date of said amendments, viz, November 2, 1894.

Approved:  GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.—­INTERNAL-REVENUE RULES.

ADOPTING AND PROMULGATING ORDER.

MAY 7, 1895.

In the exercise of the power vested in him by the Constitution, by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and the act entitled “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 concerning the classified internal-revenue service, to be known as the Internal-Revenue Rules: 

  INTERNAL-REVENUE RULE I.

The classified internal-revenue service shall include all the clerks, storekeepers, storekeepers and gaugers, and gaugers classified under the provisions of section 6 of the act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883.

  INTERNAL-REVENUE RULE II.

  1.  To test fitness for admission to the classified internal-revenue
  service, examinations of a practical character shall be provided on such
  subjects as the Commission may direct.

2.  The following age limitations shall apply to applicants for the classified internal-revenue service:  For clerk, not under 18 years of age; for storekeepers, storekeepers and gaugers, and for gaugers, not under 21 years of age.

3.  Blank forms of application shall be furnished by the secretaries of the several internal-revenue boards of examiners to any person desiring to be examined who applies therefor in person or by letter in his own handwriting.

  4.  The date of reception of each application and also of its approval
  by the board shall be noted on the application paper.

  5.  Exceptions from examination in the classified internal-revenue
  service are hereby made as follows: 

  6.  No person appointed to a place excepted from examination by any
  internal-revenue rule shall be transferred from such place to another
  place not also excepted from examination.

  INTERNAL-REVENUE RULE III.

  1.  The Commission shall appoint in each classified internal-revenue
  district a board of examiners, which shall—­