Approved:  GROVER CLEVELAND.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 26, 1894.

It is hereby ordered, That the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office be closed on Wednesday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers and sailors who fell in defense of the Union during the War of the Rebellion.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

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

  Kindergarten teachers, to be employed as such, not exceeding twenty
  in number.

Approved, June 21, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

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

  In the customs district of Boston, office of the collector:  One
  superintendent of warehouses.

  In the customs district of Philadelphia, office of the collector: 
  Five chiefs of division.

Approved, June 21, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 9, 1894.

DEPARTMENTAL RULE II.

Departmental Rule II, clause 3 (f), is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: 

  Except in the Department of Agriculture the chiefs of the following
  divisions:  Entomology and economic ornithology and mammalogy.

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO.  I.

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

  In the Department of Agriculture, office of the Secretary, the
  assistant chiefs of the following divisions:  Of entomology and of
  economic ornithology and mammalogy.

Approved: 

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.—­AMENDMENT OF CLASSIFICATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 25, 1894.

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the third paragraph of section 6 of the act entitled “An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States,” approved January 16, 1883, I hereby direct the Secretary of the Interior to revise the classification of the Department of the Interior so as to include therein the chief clerk and the assistant chief clerk at the Indian warehouse at New York.