[For Executive order see preceding page.]

In accordance with the order of the President, the Navy Department will be closed and all business suspended therein on the day of the funeral, and the flag at all yards and stations will be displayed at half-mast until after the burial of General Sherman, and in all places where public expression is given to the national sorrow business will be suspended at navy-yards or stations during such hours as will enable officers and employees of the Navy to participate therein with their fellow-citizens.

B.F.  TRACY, Secretary of the Navy.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

FEBRUARY 18, 1891.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among the places excepted from examination therein the following: 

  In the Department of Agriculture, in the office of the Secretary: 
  Private secretary to the chief of the division of statistics.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

FEBRUARY 21, 1891.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among the places excepted from examination therein the following: 

  In the Department of the Treasury, in the Coast and Geodetic Survey: 
  Clerk to act as confidential clerk and cashier to the disbursing
  officer.

  In the Post-Office Department, office of Assistant Attorney-General: 
  Confidential clerk to the Assistant Attorney-General.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., February 26, 1891.

In accordance with an act of Congress approved September 27, 1890, the following limits to the punishment of enlisted men, together with the accompanying regulations, are established for the government in time of peace of all courts-martial, and will take effect thirty days after the date of this order: 

I. Subject to the modifications authorized in subdivision 3 of this section, the punishment for desertion shall not exceed the following: 

1.  In the case of a soldier who surrenders—­

(a) When such surrender is made within thirty days after desertion, confinement at hard labor, with forfeiture of pay and allowances, for three months.

(b) When such surrender is made after an absence of more than thirty days and not more than ninety days, confinement at hard labor, with forfeiture of pay and allowances, for six months.

(c) When such surrender is made after an absence of more than ninety days, dishonorable discharge, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement at hard labor for eighteen months:  Provided, That in the case of a deserter who had not been more than three months in the service the confinement shall not exceed ten months.