EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
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EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 11, 1889.
Whereas civil-service rules for the railway mail service were approved January 4, 1889, to go into effect March 15, 1889; and
Whereas it is represented to me by the Civil Service Commission in a communication of this date that it will be impossible to complete arrangements for putting said rules into full effect on said date, or sooner than May 1, 1889:
It is therefore ordered, That said railway mail rules shall take effect May 1, 1889, instead of March 15, 1889: Provided, That such rules shall become operative and take effect in any State or Territory as soon as an eligible register for such State or Territory shall be prepared, if it shall be prior to the date above fixed.
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 17, 1889.
Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by including among the places excepted from examination thereunder in section 2 the following: "and inspector of furniture."
As amended so much of that section as relates to the office of Secretary of the Treasury will read as follows:
2. In the Department of the Treasury, in the office of the Secretary: Government actuary and inspector of furniture.
BENJ. HARRISON.
REGULATIONS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF ARMS, ORDNANCE STORES, QUARTERMASTER'S STORES, AND CAMP EQUIPAGE TO THE TERRITORIES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, PRESCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONFORMITY WITH THE SECOND SECTION OF THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1661, REVISED STATUTES, MAKING AN ANNUAL APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE ARMS AND EQUIPMENTS FOR THE MILITIA."
EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 23, 1889.
1. Arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster's stores, and camp equipage shall be issued to the Territories on requisitions of the governors thereof, and to the District of Columbia on requisitions approved by the senior general of the District militia present for duty. Returns shall be made annually by the senior general of the District militia in the manner as required by sections 3 and 4 of the act above referred to in the case of States and Territories.
2. It is forbidden to make issues to States and Territories in excess of the amount to their credit under the provisions of section 1661, Revised Statutes, as amended by the above act.
3. Any regulations established hitherto which in any way conflict with these are hereby revoked.
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
MAY 4, 1889.
Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by including among the places excepted from examination thereunder in section 2 the following: "custodian of dies, rolls, and plates at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, two subcustodians, keeper of the vault, and distributer of stock."
As amended so much of that section as relates to the office of the Secretary of the Treasury will read:
2. In the Department of the Treasury, in the office of the Secretary: Government actuary, inspector of furniture, custodian of dies, rolls, and plates at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, two subcustodians, keeper of the vault, and distributer of stock.
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 27, 1889.
Departmental Rule VIII is hereby amended as follows:
At the end of section 1 insert an additional clause, as follows:
(d) From the office of the President of the United States, after two years' continuous service therein immediately preceding the transfer, to any place in the classified service without examination, upon the requisition of the head of the Department to which the transfer is to be made and the certification of the Commission.
In section 2, line 1, after the word "authorized," insert the following: "except as provided in section 1, clause (d)."
BENJ. HARRISON.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
EXECUTIVE ORDER.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 29, 1889.
It is hereby ordered, That the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office be closed on Thursday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers who fell during the rebellion.
BENJ. HARRISON.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 7, 1889.
In November, 1862, President Lincoln quoted the words of Washington to sustain his own views, and announced in a general order that—
The President, Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the divine will demand that Sunday labor in the Army and Navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity.
The truth so concisely stated can not be too faithfully regarded, and the pressure to ignore it is far less now than in the midst of war. To recall the kindly and considerate spirit of the orders issued by these great men in the most trying times of our history, and to promote contentment and efficiency, the President directs that Sunday-morning inspection will be merely of the dress and general appearance, without arms; and the more complete inspection under arms, with all men present, as required in paragraph 950, Army Regulations, 1889, will take place on Saturday.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President: REDFIELD PROCTOR, Secretary of War.
AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 10, 1889.
Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended as follows:
In section 2, at the end of paragraph 1, insert the following: "foremen of laborers, skilled laborers, elevator conductors, foreman of cabinet shop, and cabinetmakers."
So that as amended so much of section 2 as relates to the office of the Secretary of the Treasury will read:
In the office of the Secretary: Government actuary, inspector of furniture, custodian of dies, rolls, and plates at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, two subcustodians, keeper of the vault, and distributer of stock, foremen of laborers, skilled laborers, elevator conductors, foreman of cabinet shop, and cabinetmakers.
In section 3 strike out the last paragraph and insert in lieu thereof the following:
In the Geological Survey: General assistant, executive officer, chief photographer, editor, all scientific employees of the Geological Survey officially designated as follows: Chief geologist, geologist, assistant geologist, chief paleontologist, paleontologist, and assistant paleontologist, chief chemist, chemist, assistant chemist, chief physicist, physicist, assistant physicist, chief geographer, geographer, assistant geographer, chief topographer, topographer, assistant topographer, chief hydrographer, hydrographer, assistant hydrographer, supervising engineer, engineer, assistant engineer, paleontological draftsman, chief mechanician, mechanician, assistant mechanician.
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 18, 1889.
Departmental Rule X, Customs Rule VII, Postal Rule VII, and Railway Mail Rule VI are hereby amended by adding to each of said rules, at the end thereof, the following:
Provided, That certification may be made, subject to the other conditions of this rule, for the reinstatement of any person who served in the military or naval service of the United States in the late War of the Rebellion, and was honorably discharged therefrom, without regard to the length of time he has been separated from the service.
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
JULY 26, 1889.
Clause (h) of section 2 of General Rule III is hereby amended by adding to that clause, at the end thereof, the following: "or for temporary appointment for not exceeding thirty days in any part of the classified service."
Approved:
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
JULY 26, 1889.
Section 5 of Railway Mail Rule II is hereby amended by adding an additional clause, as follows:
(c) Printers, employed as such.
Approved:
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 17, 1889.
Clause 5 of Railway Mail Rule II is hereby amended by adding thereto the following clauses:
(d) Clerks employed exclusively as porters in handling mail matter in bulk, in sacks, or pouches, and not otherwise.
(e) Clerks employed exclusively on steamboats.
Approved:
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
AUGUST 20, 1889.
Clause 2 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by including among the places excepted from examination in the office of the Supervising Architect the following: "engineers and draftsmen of classes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, not exceeding ten in all: Provided, That these ten places shall cease to be excepted places from and after June 30, 1890."
As thus amended so much of clause 2 as relates to the office of the Supervising Architect will read as follows:
In the office of the Supervising Architect: Supervising Architect, assistant and chief clerk, confidential clerk to Supervising Architect, photographer, engineers and draftsmen of classes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, not exceeding ten in all: Provided, That these ten places shall cease to be excepted places from and after June 30, 1890.
Approved:
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
OCTOBER 29, 1889.
Section 2 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing the following: "plate cleaners, transferrers, hardeners, provers, pressmen, machinists, plumbers, carpenters, and blacksmiths."
Approved:
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
Section 2 of Railway Mail Rule IV is hereby amended by substituting for clause (b) of said section the following:
(b) The Commission shall certify from the register of the State or Territory in which the vacancy exists the names of the three eligibles thereon having the highest averages, resident in the counties of said State or Territory through or on the borders of which the section of the road passes on which the person to be appointed is to serve, who have not been three times certified: Provided, That if there are not three eligibles resident in said counties, then certification shall be made in like manner from the counties of said State or Territory nearest to the line of said road in which there are three eligibles; or if there are not three eligibles upon the register of said State or Territory, then certification may be made from the register of any adjoining State or Territory: Provided further, That if upon the register of the State or Territory in which vacancy exists there are the names of eligibles having a claim of preference under section 1754, Revised Statutes, the names of such eligibles shall be certified before the names of other eligibles of higher grade.
At the end of the rule add an additional section, as follows:
7. In case of public and pressing exigency demanding the immediate employment of experienced railway mail clerks who can not be at once supplied in the manner provided for in section 2 of this rule, or by transfer under Rule V, or reappointment under Rule VI, there may be employed, without examination or certification, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe, for a period not to exceed thirty days, which, with the consent of the Commission, may be extended to sixty days, any persons who have been in the railway mail service, who have the requisite knowledge and experience, who may be available. Every such employment and the reasons therefor shall be at once reported to the Commission.
Approved, November 1, 1889.
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
Special Customs Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination at the port of New York the following:
Office of the General Appraiser: Chief clerk and law clerk.
Approved, November 18, 1889.
BENJ. HARRISON.