AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 24, 1895.

Special Departmental Rule No.  I, clause 3, is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination in the Department of the Interior the following: 

  In the Bureau of Education:  Specialist in foreign educational systems
  and specialist in education as a preventive of pauperism and crime.

Approved:  GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE II.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 24, 1895.

Section 3 is hereby amended as follows:  At the end of clause (b) add the following:  “nor the cashier, nor the two clerks employed as assistant disbursing clerks in the division of accounts and disbursements in the Department of Agriculture.”

At the end of clause (c) add the following:  “but not including the disbursing clerk in the division of accounts and disbursements in the Department of Agriculture.”

At the end of clause (e) add the following:  “except those of the Weather Bureau and the Bureau of Animal Industry, in the Department of Agriculture.”

At the end of clause (f) add the following:  “except all chiefs of division in the Department of Agriculture.”

The section as amended will read: 

  3.  Exceptions from examination in the classified departmental service
  are hereby made as follows: 

(a) One private secretary or one confidential clerk of the head of each classified Department and of each Assistant Secretary thereof, and also of each head of bureau appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

(b) Direct custodians of money for whose fidelity another officer is under official bond; but this exception shall not include any officer below the grade of assistant cashier or assistant teller, nor the cashier, nor the two clerks employed as assistant disbursing clerks in the division of accounts and disbursements in the Department of Agriculture.

  (c) Disbursing officers who give bonds, but not including the
  disbursing clerk in the division of accounts and disbursements in the
  Department of Agriculture.

  (d) Persons employed exclusively in the secret service of the
  Government.

  (e) Chief clerks, except those of the Weather Bureau and of the
  Bureau of Animal Industry, in the Department of Agriculture.

  (f) Chiefs of division, except all chiefs of division in the
  Department of Agriculture.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 28, 1895.

To the Heads of the Executive Departments: