REGULATIONS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF ARMS, ORDNANCE STORES,
QUARTERMASTER’S STORES, AND CAMP EQUIPAGE TO THE TERRITORIES AND THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, PRESCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
IN CONFORMITY WITH THE SECOND SECTION OF THE ACT ENTITLED “AN ACT TO
AMEND SECTION 1661, REVISED STATUTES, MAKING AN ANNUAL APPROPRIATION TO
PROVIDE ARMS AND EQUIPMENTS FOR THE MILITIA.”

EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 22, 1887.

1.  Each Territory shall, if included within the provisions of said act, annually receive arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster’s stores, and camp equipage equivalent to the quota of a State having the least representation in Congress, and the District of Columbia shall annually receive arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster’s stores, and camp equipage not exceeding double the quota of a State having the least representation in Congress.

2.  Arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster’s stores, and camp equipage shall be issued to the Territories on requisitions of the governors thereof and to the District of Columbia on requisitions approved by the senior general of the District Militia present for duty.  Returns shall be made annually by the senior general of the District Militia in the manner as required by sections 3 and 4 of the act above referred to in the case of States and Territories.

3.  It is forbidden to make issues to States and Territories in excess of the amount to their credit under the provisions of section 1161, Revised Statutes, as amended by the above act.

4.  The regulations established by President Pierce April 30, 1855, under the act approved March 30, 1855, are hereby revoked.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

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, Rules IV, VI, XIX, XXI of the rules for the regulation and improvement of the executive civil service are hereby amended and promulgated as follows: 

  RULE IV.

  I. The Commission may appoint boards of examiners as follows: 

The central board.—­A board composed of seven members, who shall be detailed from the Departments in which they are serving when appointed for continuous service at the office of the Commission.  This board shall mark such papers of examinations for admission to the departmental, customs, and postal services as the Commission may direct.

  Departmental special boards.—­These boards shall mark such papers
  of special examinations for the departmental service as the Commission
  may direct, and shall be composed of persons in the public service.