Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended as follows: 

Include among the places excepted from examination therein the following: 

  6.  In the Department of Agriculture:  The chief of the dairy division.

Approved, May 24, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND, President.

CIVIL SERVICE.—­EXECUTIVE ORDER REVOKED.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 24., 1895.

The Executive order heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c) that provides for the appointment of four clerks in the division of accounts and disbursements in the Department of Agriculture by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked, and hereafter these positions will be filled through competitive examination.

Approved:  GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.—­AMENDMENT OF CLASSIFICATION.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 24, 1895.

In pursuance of the authority contained in 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, the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to amend the classification of the Department of Agriculture so as to include among the classes covered thereby clerks, microscopists, assistant microscopists, stock examiners, taggers, agents, and all other employees, except temporary laborers, in the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture outside of Washington, D.C., all State statistical agents of the Department of Agriculture outside of Washington, D.C., and all messengers in the Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture outside of Washington, D.C.  The classification when so amended shall take effect on July 1, 1895.

Approved:  GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 24, 1895.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1, section 6, is hereby amended by striking out the whole of said section and substituting therefor the following: 

6.  In the Department of Agriculture, in the office of the Secretary:  Private secretary to the chief clerk, and wood engravers; scientific or professional experts employed for a period of not exceeding six months outside of Washington, D.C., in investigations specially authorized by Congress, but no such expert shall be reappointed as an expert unless the United States Civil Service Commission shall certify that such person has passed a suitable examination and is eligible for such appointment.  This exception does not include any person to be employed in that Department in Washington, D.C., nor any person whose duties are not scientific or professional or who is not expert in the particular line of scientific or professional inquiry in which such person is to be employed.

Approved:  GROVER CLEVELAND.