EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 15, 1895.
Whereas on November 2, 1894, Departmental Rule II, section 4, Customs Rule II, section 6, Postal Rule II, section 6, Railway Mail Rule II, section 6, were amended to declare that no person appointed to a place under any exception to examination should be transferred from such place to another place not also excepted from examination; and
Whereas it was not my intention that these several amendments should be retroactive in their effect:
I therefore direct that the word "hereafter" be inserted after the word "person" in the first line of each of said sections as of the date of said amendments, viz, November 2, 1894.
Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.
CIVIL SERVICE.—INTERNAL-REVENUE RULES.
ADOPTING AND PROMULGATING ORDER.
MAY 7, 1895.
In the exercise of the power vested in him by the Constitution, by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and the act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883, the President hereby makes and promulgates the following rules concerning the classified internal-revenue service, to be known as the Internal-Revenue Rules:
INTERNAL-REVENUE RULE I.