(e) Every restoration to the classified service under him of any person who may have been separated therefrom by dismissal or resignation.
These rules shall take effect March 1, 1888.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., March 1, 1888.
In the exercise of authority vested in the President by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof and ascertain the fitness of each applicant in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of the service into which he seeks to enter, I hereby direct that the officers, clerks, and other employees of the United States Civil Service Commission, now authorized or that may hereafter be authorized by law, shall be arranged in the following classes, viz:
Class A, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of less than $1,000 per annum.
Class B, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,000 or more, but less than $1,200 per annum.
Class 1, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,200 or more, but less than $1,400 per annum.
Class 2, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,400 or more, but less than $1,600 per annum.
Class 3, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,600 or more, but less than $1,800 per annum.