begin to run on the date of the original appointment:  And provided further, That at each pension agency at the time of the quarterly payment of pensions such temporary appointments may be made as the needs of the service may demand for a period not to exceed thirty days, which appointments shall not be extended or renewed until the date of the next quarterly payment of pensions.  Every such temporary appointment and the discontinuance of the same shall at once be reported to the Commission.

Approved, July 15, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CIVIL SERVICE.—­AMENDMENT OF CLASSIFICATION.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 15, 1895.

In pursuance of the authority contained in 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, the heads of the several Executive Departments are hereby directed to amend their several classifications so as to include firemen among the employees classified thereunder.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 15, 1895.

Executive orders heretofore issued designating the places to be filled by noncompetitive examination under clause (c) of General Rule III are hereby amended so as to include among those places in the Department of the Interior, in the Geological Survey, the editor and the photographer.

Approved: 

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended by adding to the list of places excepted from examination in the Treasury Department—­

  In the Bureau of Immigration:  One statistician and stenographer, with
  power to act as immigrant inspector.

Approved, July 30, 1895.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE RULES.

Departmental Rule IX, clause 1, paragraph 2, is hereby amended by striking out in line 1 the words “appointed from the appropriate register to” and substituting therefor the word “occupying;” by adding before the word “messenger” in line 2 the following:  “engineers, assistant engineers, firemen;” by striking out in line 3 the words “below the positions of clerk and copyist” and substituting therefor the words “the educational test for appointment to which is below the grade of the educational test required for the position of clerk or copyist;” and by adding in line 7, after the words “printers’ assistants,” the words “and skilled helpers.”  As amended the paragraph will read as follows: