As a mark of respect to the memory of the Hon. Walter Q. Gresham, late Secretary of State, the President directs that the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office, in the city of Washington, be closed on Wednesday, the 29th day of May, 1895, the day of the funeral.

HENRY T. THURBER,
  Private Secretary.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 28, 1895.

It is hereby ordered, That the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office be closed on Thursday, 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.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.—­GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE RULES.

ADOPTING AND PROMULGATING ORDER.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 13, 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 service of the Government Printing Office, to be known as the Government Printing Office Rules: 

  RULE I.

1.  The classified service of the Government Printing Office shall include all persons employed in that office. except those appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and unskilled laborers or workmen,

  2.  The officers, clerks, and other employees of the Government Printing
  Office are hereby arranged in the following classes: 

  Class 1.—­All persons receiving an annual salary of less than
  $720, or a compensation at the rate of less than $720 per annum.

  Class 2.—­All persons receiving an annual salary of $720 or more,
  or a compensation at the rate of $720 or more, but less than $840 per
  annum.

  Class 3.—­All persons receiving an annual salary of $840 or more,
  or a compensation at the rate of $840 or more, but less than $900 per
  annum.

  Class 4.—­All persons receiving an annual salary of $900 or more,
  or a compensation at the rate of $900 or more, but less than $1,000 per
  annum.

  Class 5.—­All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or
  more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,000 or more, but less than
  $1,200 per annum.

  Class 6.—­All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,200 or
  more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,200 or more, but less than
  $1,400 per annum.

  Class 7.—­All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,400 or
  more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,400 or more, but less than
  $1,600 per annum.