GROVER CLEVELAND.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 2, 1895.
So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c), as provides for the appointment of special agents in the Department of Labor by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked.
Approved:
GROVER CLEVELAND.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 18, 1896.
Section 5 of Internal-Revenue Rule IV is hereby amended by adding at the end of the first paragraph thereof the following:
And provided further, That whenever an emergency shall arise requiring that a vacant position in any internal-revenue district shall be filled before a certificate can be issued by the Commission and an appointment made thereto in the manner provided in these rules, such position may be filled without regard to the provisions of these rules by temporary appointment for a period not to exceed fifteen days, and only for such period as may be required for the execution of the necessary details of an appointment thereto in accordance with said provisions; but no person shall receive such emergency appointment who within the sixty days next previous thereto has been separated from a position in said district to which he was temporarily appointed under the provisions of this section.