8.  Chief clerks, deputy collectors, deputy naval officers, deputy
  surveyors of customs, and superintendents or chiefs of divisions
  or bureaus.

And the same is hereby promulgated.

Approved, June 15, 1885.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following special rule for the regulation and improvement of the executive civil service is hereby promulgated: 

SPECIAL RULE NO. 4.

Appointments to the 150 places in the Pension Office provided to be filled by the act of March 3, 1885, except so far as they may be filled by promotions or transfers, must be separately apportioned by the appointing power in as near conformity to the second section of the act of January 16, 1883, as the need of filling them promptly and the residence and qualifications of the applicants will permit.

Approved, July 16, 1885.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 23, 1885.

Heads of all Government Departments: 

Ex-President Ulysses S. Grant died this morning at 8 o’clock.

In respect to his memory it is ordered that all of the offices of the Executive Departments in the city of Washington be closed to-day at 1 o’clock.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 81.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
  ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,
   Washington, July 23, 1885.

I. The following proclamation has been received from the President: 

[For proclamation see p. 308.]

II.  In compliance with the instructions of the President, on the day of the funeral, at each military post, the troops and cadets will be paraded and this order read to them, after which all labors for the day will cease.

The national flag will be displayed at half-staff.

At dawn of day thirteen guns will be fired, and afterwards at intervals of thirty minutes between the rising and setting of the sun a single gun, and at the close of the day a national salute of thirty-eight guns.

The officers of the Army will wear crape on the left arm and on their swords, and the colors of the Battalion of Engineers, of the several regiments, and of the United States Corps of Cadets will be put in mourning for the period of six months.

The date and hour of the funeral will be communicated to department commanders by telegraph, and by them to their subordinate commanders.

By command of Lieutenant-General Sheridan: 

R.C.  DRUM, Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDER.