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.

Class 4, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of
$1,800 or more, but less than $2,000 per annum.

Class 5, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of
$2,000 or more per annum.

No person who is appointed to an office by the President by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, or by the President alone, and no
person who is to be employed merely as a laborer or workman or as a
watchman, shall be considered as within this classification.

_And it is ordered_, That the United States Civil Service Commission
thus classified, as provided by clause 2 of Departmental Rule I of the
civil-service rules approved February 2, 1888, and in force on and
after the date hereof, shall be considered a part of the classified
departmental service, and the rules applicable thereto shall be in force
therein.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, March 21, 1888_.

_To the United States Civil Service Commission_.

Gentlemen: I desire to make a suggestion regarding subdivision
(_c_), General Rule III, of the amended civil-service rules
promulgated February 2, 1888. It provides for the promotion of an
employee in a Department who is below or outside of the classified
service to a place within said classified service in the same Department
upon the request of the appointing officer, upon the recommendation of
the Commission and the approval of the President, after a noncompetitive
examination, in case such person has served continuously for two years
in the place from which it is proposed to promote him, and "because of
his faithfulness and efficiency in the position occupied by him," and
"because of his qualifications for the place to which the appointing
off