AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by striking out the whole of the paragraph in section 3, Department of the Interior, relating to the Geological Survey and substituting in lieu thereof the following: 

In the Geological Survey:  Geologist, assistant geologist, paleontologist, assistant paleontologist, chief photographer, photographer, chief chemist, chemist, assistant chemist, chief engraver, engraver, assistant engraver, lithographic engraver, map printer, lithographic printer, assistant lithographic printer, map reviser, statistical experts temporarily employed.

Approved, December 4, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section, to be numbered 9: 

The Commission shall certify for transfer and reappointment to any classified non-excepted place in the departmental service, upon the requisition of the head of a Department, any person who at the time of making such requisition is holding an office outside the classified service in any Executive Department at Washington to which he was appointed from a classified place in the departmental service; and upon the requisition of any head of Department the Commission shall certify for reinstatement in the classified service of said Department any such officer who within one year next preceding the date of the requisition, by the abolition of his office or otherwise, has without delinquency or misconduct been separated from said office:  Provided, That this section shall not authorize the reappointment to the classified service of any such officer or ex-officer who was appointed to his office from an excepted place, unless his appointment to such excepted place was by promotion from a nonexcepted place.

Approved, December 15, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 3, 1895.

Postal Rule II, clause 5, is amended by striking out paragraph (e) and relettering paragraph (f) as (e), so that as amended the clause will read: 

  5.  Exceptions from examination in the classified postal service are
  hereby made as follows: 

  (a) Assistant postmaster, or the chief assistant to the
  postmaster, by whatever designation known.

  (b) One secretary to the postmaster, when authorized by law and
  allowed by the Post-Office Department.

  (c) Cashier, when authorized by law and employed under that
  roster title.

  (d) Assistant cashier, when authorized by law and employed under
  that roster title.

  (e) Printers and pressmen, when authorized by law and allowed by
  the Post-Office Department and employed as such.