By direction of the President: 

E.W.  HALFORD,
  Private Secretary.

[Footnote 10:  Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.]

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Departmental Rule VIII, section 1, clause (b), is hereby amended by inserting after the word “transacted” the following:  “and from the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury;” and after the word “Department” where it last occurs the following:  “or to said office;” so that as amended the clause will read: 

(b) From a bureau of the Treasury Department in which business relating to the customs is transacted and from the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury to a classified customs district, and from such a district to such a bureau of the Treasury Department or to said office, upon requisition by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Approved, July 23, 1890.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

JULY 30, 1890.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination in the Department of Agriculture the following: 

  Wood engravers.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

SEPTEMBER 2, 1890.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination therein the following: 

  In the Post-Office Department, office of the Postmaster-General: 
  Stenographer as confidential clerk to the chief post-office
  inspector.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

OCTOBER 31, 1890.

Section 7 of Railway Mail Rule IV is hereby amended by inserting in line 7, after the word “days,” the following:  “or until the emergency ceases.”

BENJ.  HARRISON.

SECOND ANNUAL MESSAGE.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 7, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

The reports of the several Executive Departments, which will be laid before Congress in the usual course, will exhibit in detail the operations of the Government for the last fiscal year.  Only the more important incidents and results, and chiefly such as may be the foundation of the recommendations I shall submit, will be referred to in this annual message.

The vast and increasing business of the Government has been transacted by the several Departments during the year with faithfulness, energy, and success.