Supplementary boards.—­These boards shall mark the papers of
  supplementary examinations for the classified departmental service, and
  shall be composed of persons in the public service.

Local departmental boards.—­These boards shall be organized at one or more places in each State and Territory where examinations for the departmental service are to be held, and shall each be composed of persons in the public service residing in the State or Territory in which the board is to act.

Customs boards.—­One for each classified customs district, to be composed of persons in the customs service in the district for which the board is to act.  These boards shall conduct examinations for entrance to and promotion in the classified customs service.

Postal boards.—­One for each classified post-office, to be composed of persons in the postal service at the post-office for which said board is to act.  These boards shall conduct examinations for entrance to and promotions in the postal service.

2.  No person shall be appointed a member of any board of examiners named herein until after consultation by the Civil Service Commission with the head of the Department or office in which the person whom it desires to appoint is serving.

3.  It shall be the duty of the head of any classified customs office or classified post-office to promptly inform the Civil Service Commission, in writing, of the removal or resignation from the public service, or of the death, of any member of a board of examiners appointed from his office; and upon request of the Commission such officer shall state to the Commission which of the persons employed in his office he regards as most competent to fill the vacancy thus occasioned, or any vacancy which may otherwise occur; and in making this statement the officer shall mention generally the qualifications of each of the persons named therein by him.

4.  The duties of a member of a special, supplementary, local, departmental, customs, or postal board of examiners shall be regarded as a part of the public duties of such examiner, and each examiner shall be allowed time during office hours to perform the duties required of him.

5.  The Civil Service Commission shall have authority to adopt regulations which shall (1) prescribe the manner of organizing the several boards of civil-service examiners herein named, (2) more particularly state the powers of each of said boards, and (3) specifically define the duties of the members thereof.

  6.  The Civil Service Commission shall have authority to change at any
  time the membership of any of the above-named boards of civil-service
  examiners.

Approved, January 15, 1887.

GROVER CLEVELAND.