Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination therein the following:

In the Post-Office Department, office of the Postmaster-General: Stenographer as confidential clerk to the chief post-office inspector.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

OCTOBER 31, 1890.

Section 7 of Railway Mail Rule IV is hereby amended by inserting in line 7, after the word "days," the following: "or until the emergency ceases."

BENJ. HARRISON.

SECOND ANNUAL MESSAGE.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 7, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: