The Commission respectfully requests that you indorse this communication with your approval of the action above quoted and return it as the authority of the Commission for including the places mentioned among the noncompetitive examination places under General Rule III, clause 2 (e).

  Very respectfully,

A.P.  EDGERTON, JOHN H. OBERLY, CHAS. LYMAN, United States Civil Service Commissioners.

Approved: 

GROVER CLEVELAND.

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION,
  Washington, D.C., October 17, 1888.

The PRESIDENT.

SIR:  This Commission has been informed by the Treasury Department that an additional teller has been authorized to be appointed at the custom-house in the city of New York, and that his immediate employment is desired.

This position is not one excepted from examination by Customs Rule II, clause 5, but the collector thinks, in view of its fiduciary character, that it ought to be filled by noncompetitive instead of by competitive examination, and in this view the Commission concurs.  It is therefore respectfully recommended that a noncompetitive examination for the purpose be authorized under subdivision (e) of clause 2 of General Rule III, Revised Civil-Service Rules.

  I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

  CHAS. LYMAN,
  Commissioner, in Charge.

Approved, October 17, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION,
  Washington, D.C., October 31, 1888.

The PRESIDENT.

  SIR:  Approval of the following order for noncompetitive examinations
  under the provisions of General Rule III, section 2, clause (e),
  of Revised Civil-Service Rules, is respectfully recommended: 

  Ordered, That noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for the
  following-designated places in the classified customs service are hereby
  authorized: 

  1.  In the customs district of New York, collector’s office:  The tellers
  employed in the cashier’s office; three stenographers employed under the
  immediate supervision of the collector.

  2.  In the customs district of San Francisco:  Chinese interpreter.

  I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

  CHAS. LYMAN,
  Commissioner, in Charge.

Approved, November 1, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION,
  Washington, D.C., October, 3 1888.

The PRESIDENT.

SIR:  Approval of the following order for noncompetitive examinations under the provisions of General Rule III, section 2, clause (e), of Revised Civil-Service Rules, is respectfully recommended: