EXECUTIVE ORDER.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 27, 1890.
It is hereby ordered, That the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office be closed on Friday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers and sailors who fell in defense of the Union during the War of the Rebellion.
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION,
Washington, D.C., May 31, 1890.
The PRESIDENT.
SIR: This Commission has the honor to recommend that Special Departmental Rule No. 1 be amended by adding to the exceptions from examination therein declared the following:
"In the Department of the Treasury, in the life-saving service: Topographer and hydrographer."
We have the honor to be, your obedient servants,