In the office of the Assistant Attorney-General:  Law clerks—­One at
  $2,750 per annum, one at $2,500 per annum, one at $2,250 per annum, and
  thirteen at $2,000 per annum.

  In the Patent Office:  Financial clerk, examiner of interferences, and
  law clerk.

  In the General Land Office:  Two law clerks, two law examiners, clerk of
  class 4 acting as receiving clerk, and ten principal examiners of land
  claims and contests.

  In the Bureau of Pensions:  Assistant chief clerk, medical referee,
  assistant medical referee, and law clerk.

  In the Bureau of Indian Affairs:  Principal bookkeeper.

  In the office of Commissioner of Railroads:  Railroad engineer.

  In the Bureau of Education:  Collector and compiler of statistics and
  statistician.

In the Geological Survey:  In permanent force—­General assistant, executive officer, photographer, twelve geologists, two paleontologists, two chemists, chief geographer, three topographers, and three geographers.  In temporary force—­Six paleontologists, eight geologists, geographer, mechanician, and editor.

  4.  In the Department of War:  Clerk for the General of the Army and clerk
  for the retired General of the Army.

  In the office of the Chief Signal Officer:  Lithographer.

  5.  In the Department of the Navy: 

  In the Hydrographic Office:  Engravers, copperplate printers, printers’
  apprentices.

  6.  In the Department of Justice:  Pardon clerk and two law clerks.

  7.  In the Department of Agriculture: 

In the office of the Commissioner:  Private secretary to the chief clerk, superintendent of grounds, and assistant chief of each of the following divisions:  Of botany, of chemistry, of entomology, of forestry, and of statistics.

  In the Bureau of Animal Industry:  Chief of the Bureau, assistant chief,
  private secretary to chief, and chief clerk.

  8.  In the Post-Office Department:  Assistant Attorney-General, law clerk,
  and agents and employees at postal-note, postage-stamp, postal-card, and
  envelope agencies.

  9.  In the Department of Labor:  Statistical experts and temporary
  experts.

Approved, July 2, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO. 2.

No substitute shall hereafter be employed in any Department; and the head of any Department in which substitutes are now employed may appoint any of such substitutes to take the place of his principal, or to any place of lower grade:  Provided, That no substitute shall be appointed as herein authorized until he shall have passed an appropriate examination by the Civil Service Commission and his eligibility shall have been certified by said Commission to the head of the Department in which he is employed.