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.