EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 23, 1896.
Amend clause 2 (b) of Rule III by adding at the end thereof the following:
And all officers and employees in the penitentiary service who are by law subject to classification.
Approved:
GROVER CLEVELAND.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 2, 1897.
Amend Rule VIII by striking out section 12 and substituting therefor the following:
Whenever there are no names of eligibles upon a register for any grade in which a vacancy exists, and the public interest requires that it must be filled before eligibles can be provided by the Commission, such vacancy may, subject to the approval of the Commission, be filled by appointment without examination and certification for such part of three months as will enable the Commission to provide eligibles. Such temporary appointment shall expire by limitation as soon as an eligible shall be provided, and no person shall serve longer than three months in any one year under such temporary appointment or appointments unless by special authority of the Commission previously obtained. Said year limitation shall commence from the date of such first appointment: Provided, That whenever an emergency shall arise requiring that a vacancy shall be filled before a certification can be issued and an appointment made thereto in the manner provided in these rules, such vacancy may be filled without regard to the provisions of these rules for such part of thirty days as may be required for the issuance of a certificate and the execution of the necessary details of an appointment thereto in accordance with said provisions. Such appointment shall in no case continue longer than thirty days.
Approved:
GROVER CLEVELAND.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 2, 1897.
Amend Rule V, section 4, prescribing age limitations for the classified service, by striking out the table after the tenth line and substituting therefor the following:
| Minimum. | Maximum. | |
|---|---|---|
| Departmental Service: | ||
| Page, messenger boy, apprentice, or student. | 14 | 20 |
| Printer's assistant and messenger. | 18 | No limit. |
| Positions in the railway mail service. | 18 | 35 |
| Internes and hospital stewards in themarine-hospital service and acting secondassistant engineer in the revenue-cutterservice. | 21 | 30 |
| Cadet in the revenue-cutter service and aid inthe Coast and the Geodetic Survey. | 18 | 25 |
| Surfmen in the life-saving service. | 18 | 45 |
| Superintendent, physician, supervisorday-school inspector, and disciplinarian inthe Indian service; inspector and assistantinspector of hulls, an inspector and anassistant inspector of boilers, in thesteamboat-inspection service. | 25 | 55 |
| All other positions. | 20 | No limit. |
| (The age limitation shall not apply in the case of the wife of the superintendent of an Indian school who applies for examination for the position of teacher or matron.) | ||
| Custom-house service: | ||
| All positions | 20 | No limit. |
| Post-office service: | ||
| Letter carrier | 21 | 40 |
| All other positions | 18 | No limit. |
| Government printing service: | ||
| All positions (male) | 21 | No limit. |
| All positions (female) | 18 | No limit. |
| Internal-revenue service: | ||
| All positions | 21 | No limit. |
Approved:
GROVER CLEVELAND.
CIVIL SERVICE.—CLASSIFICATION OF THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Washington, D.C. January 12, 1897.
In accordance with the third clause of section 6 of the act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883—
It is ordered, That the officers and employees in or under this office included within the provisions of the civil-service law and rules be, and they are hereby, arranged in the following classes:
Class A.—All persons receiving an annual salary of less than $720, or a compensation at the rate of less than $720 per annum.
Class B.—All persons receiving an annual salary of $720 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $720 or more, but less than $840 per annum.
Class C.—All persons receiving an annual salary of $840 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $840 or more, but less than $900 per annum.
Class D.—All persons receiving an annual salary of $900 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $900 or more, but less than $1,000 per annum.
Class E.—All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,000 or more, but less than $1,200 per annum.
Class 1.—All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,200 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,200 or more, but less than $1,400 per annum.
Class 2.—All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,400 or more, 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, or a 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, 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, but less than $2,500 per annum.
Class 6.—All persons receiving an annual salary of $2,500 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $2,500 or more per annum.
It is provided, That this classification shall not include persons appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate nor persons employed as mere laborers or workmen; but all positions whose occupants are designated as laborers or workmen, and who were prior to May 6, 1896, and are now regularly assigned to work of the same grade as that performed by classified employees, shall be included within this classification. Hereafter no person who is appointed as a laborer or workman, without examination under the civil-service rules, shall be assigned to work of the same grade as that performed by classified employees.
It is also ordered, That no person shall be admitted into any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he shall have passed an appropriate examination prepared by the United States Civil Service Commission and his eligibility has been certified to this office by said Commission.
By direction of the President:
HENRY T. THURBER,
Private Secretary.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 12, 1897.
Hon. JUDSON HARMON,
Attorney-General of the United States.
DEAR SIR: The bill which has been for some time pending before the Congress providing for the adjustment and extension of the indebtedness of the Pacific railroads to the Government of the United States has been defeated in the House of Representatives.
In the case of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Kansas Pacific Railroad, a default in the payment of their indebtedness having occurred and suits having been commenced for the foreclosure of the lien upon said roads which is paramount to the lien and security of the United States, you are hereby directed, pursuant to the provisions of an act of Congress passed March 3, 1887, after taking such precautions and perfecting such arrangements as are possible to assure as far as practicable the payment of their indebtedness to the Government as a result of the suits now pending or others to be instituted, to take such proceedings in the courts as shall be needful to protect and defend the rights and interests of the United States in respect of such indebtedness, and to take steps to foreclose the mortgages or liens of the United States upon the property of these railroad companies.
In the case of the other aided Pacific railroads, as to which no foreclosure suits are pending, a different situation is presented, which requires further consideration before deciding the course to be taken by the Government.
Yours, truly,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
Rule VI of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by adding to the exceptions from examination in the departmental service a new clause, to read as follows:
(d) Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution, in charge of United States National Museum.
Approved, January 27, 1897.
GROVER CLEVELAND.