[SEAL.]

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

By the President: 
  FREDK.  T. FRELINGHUYSEN,
    Secretary of State.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

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 rules for the regulation and improvement of the executive civil service are hereby amended and promulgated, as follows: 

  RULE V.

  There shall be three branches of the service classified under the
  civil-service act (not including laborers or workmen or officers
  required to be confirmed by the Senate), as follows: 

  1.  Those classified in the Departments at Washington shall be designated
  “The classified departmental service.”

  2.  Those classified under any collector, naval officer, surveyor, or
  appraiser in any customs district shall be designated “The classified
  customs service.”

  3.  Those classified under any postmaster at any post-office, including
  that at Washington, shall be designated “The classified postal service.”

4.  The classified customs service shall embrace the several customs districts where the officials are as many as fifty, now the following:  New York City, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.; Philadelphia, Pa.; San Francisco, Cal.; Baltimore, Md.; New Orleans, La.; Chicago, Ill.; Burlington, Vt.; Portland, Me.; Detroit, Mich.; Port Huron, Mich.

5.  The classified postal service shall embrace the several post-offices where the officials are as many as fifty, now the following:  Albany, N.Y.; Baltimore, Md.; Boston, Mass.; Brooklyn, N.Y.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Jersey City, N.J.; Kansas City, Mo.; Louisville, Ky.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Newark, N.J.; New Orleans, La.; New York City, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Pittsburg, Pa.; Providence, R.I.; Rochester, N.Y.; St. Louis, Mo.; St. Paul, Minn.; San Francisco, Cal.; Washington, D.C.

  RULE VII.

1.  The general examinations under the first clause of Rule VI for admission to the service shall be limited to the following subjects:  (1) Orthography, penmanship, and copying; (2) arithmetic—­fundamental rules, fractions, and percentage; (3) interest, discount, and elements of bookkeeping and of accounts; (4) elements of the English language, letter writing, and the proper construction of sentences; (5) elements of the geography, history, and government of the United States.

2.  Proficiency in any subject upon which an examination shall be held shall be credited in grading the standing of the persons examined in proportion to the value of a knowledge of such subject