The certificate of the State or municipal quarantine officer of health may be accepted as satisfactory evidence of compliance with these regulations on the part of the vessel.
JNO. M. WOODWORTH,
Surgeon-General United States Marine-Hospital Service.
Approved:
R.B. HAYES.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, NEW YORK CITY,
Collector's Office, February 26, 1879.
Hon. JOHN SHERMAN,
Secretary of the Treasury.
SIR: The President, by letter of 4th instant, having requested that appointments and promotions in this office should be made in accordance with the civil-service rules of 1872, and having also made a similar request of the naval officer, it has been deemed best to make, if practicable, the same rules applicable to all the offices in this city included in the order of the Treasury Department dated August 7, 1872.
With that view, and after several conferences, it has been agreed by the assistant treasurer, naval officer, appraiser, surveyor, and myself to submit the inclosed modifications of the rules of 1872, and should they meet approval to put in operation forthwith the rules so modified.
I am, very respectfully,
E.A. MERRITT,
Collector.