Ordered, That noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for the following-designated places in the classified departmental service are hereby authorized: 

1.  In the Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, permanent force:  Assistant photographers.

2.  In the Department of Labor:  Special agents.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

CHAS. LYMAN,
  Commissioner, in Charge.

Approved, November 1, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

Clause (e) of section 2 of General Rule III is amended by adding thereto the following, and as thus amended is hereby promulgated: 

But no person appointed to such a place upon noncompetitive examination shall within one year after appointment be transferred or appointed to any place not excepted from examination; but after having served in such noncompetitive place not less than one year he may be transferred or appointed in the bureau or office in which he is serving to a place not excepted from examination upon the certificate of the Commission or the proper board of examiners that he has passed an examination to test fitness for the place to which his transfer or appointment is proposed.

Approved, November 1, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO.  I.

So much of Special Departmental Rule No. 1, approved July 2, 1888, as applies to-the Department of Agriculture is hereby amended and promulgated as follows: 

  7.  In the Department of Agriculture: 

In the office of the Commissioner:  Private secretary to the chief clerk, superintendent of grounds, and assistant chief of each of the following divisions:  Of botany, of chemistry, of entomology, of forestry, and of statistics, and the director of experiment stations and the assistant director.

  In the Bureau of Animal Industry:  Chief of the Bureau, assistant chief,
  private secretary to the chief, and chief clerk.

Approved, November 1, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

SPECIAL CUSTOMS RULE NO.  I.

Special Customs Rule No. 1, specially excepting from examination certain places in the customs service, is hereby amended by including among those places the following: 

  At the port of New York, office of the collector:  Bookbinder.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, November 1, 1888.

The foregoing amendment is hereby approved.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the first sentence of section 1 the following: 

Provided, That no certification shall be made from the clerk or any supplementary register to any Department to which promotion regulations have been applied under General Rule III, section 6, to fill a vacancy above the grade of class 1.

So that as amended the first paragraph of section 1 will read: