appointment in the railway mail service in each State or
Territory; every appointment under any exception to examination
authorized by Railway Mail Rule II, clause 5; every reappointment under
Railway Mail Rule VI, and every appointment of a substitute to a regular
place.

(_b_) Every refusal to make an absolute appointment and the reason
therefor, and every refusal or neglect to accept an appointment in the
classified railway mail service.

(_c_) Every transfer into the classified railway mail service.

(_d_) Every separation from the classified railway mail service and
the cause of such separation.

(_e_) Every promotion or degradation in the classified railway mail
service, if such promotion or degradation be from one class to another
class.

(_f_) Once in every six months, namely, on the 30th of June and the
31st of December of each year, the whole number of employees in each
railway mail division, arranged by States and classes, showing the
number of substitutes and the number of regular employees in each class
in each State or Territory.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, January 4, 1889_.

The above rules are hereby approved, to take effect 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.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION,
_Washington, D.C., February 8, 1889_.

The PRESIDENT.

SIR: The Commission recommends that Special Departmental Rule No. 1 be
amended by adding to the exceptions from examination therein declared
the following:

"11. In the Department of Justice: Assistant attorneys.

"12. In the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Experiment Stations:
Private secretary to the Director."

Very respectfully,

CHAS LYMAN,
_United States Civil Service Commissioner._

Approved, February 11, 1889.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION,
_Washington, D.C., February 9, 1889_.

The PRESIDENT.

SIR: This Commission has the honor to recommend that the order of the
President fixing the places to which appointments may be made upon
noncompetitive examination under General Rule III, section 2, clause
(_f_), may be amended by including among such places the following:

"In the Post-Office Department: Captain of the watch."

This recommendat