In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the executive civil service is hereby amended and promulgated, as follows: 

  RULE IX.

  All applications for regular competitive examinations for admission to
  the classified civil service must be made on blank forms to be
  prescribed by the Commission.

  Requests for blank forms of application for competitive examination for
  admission to the classified civil service and all regular applications
  for such examination shall be made—­

  1.  If for the classified departmental service, to the United States
  Civil Service Commission at Washington, D.C.

  2.  If for the classified customs service, to the civil-service board of
  examiners for the customs district in which the person desiring to be
  examined wishes to enter the customs service.

  3.  If for the classified postal service, to the civil-service board of
  examiners for the post-office at which the person desiring to be
  examined wishes to enter the postal service.

  Requests for blank forms of application to customs and postal boards of
  examiners must be made in writing by the persons desiring examination,
  and such blank forms shall not be furnished to any other persons.

Approved, August 13, 1886.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, November 16, 1886.

Hon. Daniel Manning,
  Secretary of the Treasury.

DEAR SIR:  In pursuance of a joint resolution of the Congress approved March 3, 1877, authorizing the President to cause suitable regulations to be made for the maintenance of the statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World,” now located on Bedloes Island, in the harbor of New York, as a beacon, I hereby direct that said statue be at once placed under the care and superintendence of the Light-House Board, and that it be from henceforth maintained by said board as a beacon, and that it be so maintained, lighted, and tended in accordance with such rules and regulations as now exist applicable thereto, or such other and different rules and regulations as said board may deem necessary to carry out the design of said joint resolution and this order.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 84.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
  ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,
    Washington, November 18, 1886.

I. The following proclamation [order] has been received from the
President: 

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., November 18, 1886.

To the People of the United States: 

It is my painful duty to announce the death of Chester Alan Arthur, lately the President of the United States, which occurred, after an illness of long duration, at an early hour this morning at his residence in the city of New York.