EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, May 26, 1888_.

Under the provisions of section 4 of the act approved March 3, 1883, it
is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the Department
of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on
Wednesday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in
the decoration of the graves of the soldiers who fell during the
rebellion.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION,
_Washington, D.C., June 2, 1888_.

The PRESIDENT.

SIR: In the force employed in the office of the collector of customs at
the port of New York there are eight tellers who receive and count the
money paid in at that office, amounting to $500,000 a day or upward, and
who should be persons qualified to handle money with skill and to detect
counterfeit coin and bills. One of these places is now vacant, and it is
important that it should be filled at the earliest practicable date. The
position is not one excepted from examination by Customs Rule II, clause
5; but the collector thinks that it would be imprudent and impracticable
for him to be restricted in filling the vacancy to the three names that
might be certified to him from the eligible register, and in this
opinion the Commission concurs. But whether this class of positions and
certain others in the customs service should be filled by noncompetitive
examination or by special exception is a matter which the Commission has
under consideration, but can not determine until after a visit to New
York and perhaps other ports. In view, however, of the necessity for
immediately filling the present vacancy--but without establishing a
precedent--the Commission has the honor to recommend that a
noncompetitive examination for the purpose be authorized under
subdivision (_e_), clause 2 of General Rule III, Civil-Service
Rules. Your obedient servants,

JNO. H. OBERLY,
CHAS. LYMAN,
_United States Civil Service Commissioners_.

Approved, June 5, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

CLASSIFIED POSTAL SERVICE, SPECIAL RULE NO. 1.

JUNE 16, 1888.

In addition to the exceptions from examination in the classified postal
service made by Postal Rule II, clause 5, the following exception to
examination in that service is hereby made:

Printers, employed as such.

_Provided_, That before any person may be employed under this
exception to examination the P