ost-Office Department shall inform the
Commission of the authority given to employ printers at any post-office
and of the number authorized to be employed at such office.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

_Ordered_, That noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for the
following designated places in the classified departmental service be,
and are hereby, authorized:

1. In all the Departments: Engineers, assistant engineers, pressmen, and
compositors.

2. In the Department of the Treasury:

In the office of the Secretary: Storekeeper, inspector of electric
lights, foreman of laborers, captain of watch, lieutenants of watch, and
locksmith and electrician.

In the office of the Treasurer: Seventeen clerks employed as expert
money tellers.

In the office of the Supervising Surgeon-General of Marine-Hospital
Service: Hospital steward, employed as chemist.

3. In the Department of the Interior:

In the office of the Secretary: Stenographer (to be confidential clerk
to Secretary), members of the boards of pension appeals, returns-office
clerk, and six clerks to act as assistant disbursing clerks.

In the Bureau of Pensions: Superintendent of buildings and two qualified
surgeons.

In the Patent Office: Librarian, principal examiners, machinists, and
model attendants.

In the office of the Commissioner of Railroads: One bookkeeper.

In the Bureau of Education: Clerk of class 4, as librarian.

In the Geological Survey: In permanent force--Librarian. In temporary
force--Assistant paleontologists, assistant geologists, topographers,
and assistant photographers.

4. In the Department of Agriculture:

In the disbursing office: Four clerks.

5. In the Post-Office Department:

In the office of the Assistant Attorney-General: Stenographer (to be
confidential clerk to the Assistant Attorney-General).

Approved, July 2, 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO. I.

In addition to the exceptions from examination made by Departmental
Rule III, clause 2, the following exceptions to examinations for the
classified departmental service are hereby made, viz:

1. In the Department of State: Lithographer.

2. In the Department of the Treasury:

In the office of the Secretary: Government actuary.

In the office of the Comptroller of the Currency: Bond clerk.

In the office of the Supervising Architect: Supervising Arch