Class 2.—­All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,400 or more per annum, or a compensation at the rate of $1,400 or more, but less than $1,600 per annum.

Class 3.—­All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,600 or more per annum, or an annual compensation at the rate of $1,600 or more, but less than $1,800 per annum.

Class 4.—­All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,800 or more per annum, or a compensation at the rate of $1,800 or more, but less than $2,000 per annum.

Class 5.—­All persons receiving an annual salary of $2,000 or more or a compensation at the rate of $2,000 or more per annum.

Provided, That no person who may be appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and that no person who may be employed merely as a workman or laborer shall be considered as within this classification, and no person so employed shall be assigned to the duties of a classified place.

Provided further, That no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an appropriate examination under the United States Civil Service Commission and his or her eligibility has been certified to by said Commission.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 13, 1896.

The civil-service rules are hereby amended as follows: 

Rule III, clause 2 (a), is amended by adding after the words “the light-house service” the words “the life-saving service.”

Paragraph (b) of the same rule and clause is amended by striking out after the words “who are in the service of the Treasury Department in any capacity” the words “except those in the life-saving service.”

Approved: 

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as follows: 

Rule I, section 2, clause (b):  In the third line, after the word “act,” insert “and these rules;” so that as amended the clause will read: 

  (b) The term “classified service” refers to all that part of
  the executive civil service of the United States included within the
  provisions of the civil-service act and these rules.

Rule III, section 2, clause (a), is amended by adding thereto the following clause: 

  The Ordnance Department at large.

Rule III, section 2, clause (a), is amended by striking out after “persons” in the third line the words “who have been nominated for” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “whose appointments are subject to.”

Rule III, section 2 clause (b), is amended by inserting in the second line, after the word “designation,” the words “except persons merely employed as laborers or workmen and persons whose appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate.”