lows:

RULE XII.

1. Every regular application must be supported by proper certificates
of good moral character, health, and physical and mental capacity for
doing the public work, the certificates to be in such form and number
as the regulations of the Commission shall provide; but no certificate
will be received which is inconsistent with the tenth section of the
civil-service act.

2. No one shall be entitled to be examined for admission to the
classified postal service if under 16 or over 35 years of age, or
to the classified customs service or to the classified departmental
service if under 18 or over 45 years of age; but no one shall be
examined for appointment to any place in the classified customs
service, except that of clerk or messenger, who is under 21 years
of age; but these limitations of age shall not apply to persons
honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the
country who are otherwise duly qualified.

Approved, December 5, 1883.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 17, 1883_

The following-named officers of the Army and Navy will constitute a
board to consider an expedition to be sent for the relief of Lieutenant
Greely and his party, composing what is known as the "Lady Franklin Bay
Expedition," and to recommend to the Secretaries of War and the Navy,
jointly, the steps the board may consider necessary to be taken for the
equipment and transportation of the relief expedition, and to suggest
such plan for its control and conduct and for the organization of its
personnel as may seem to them best adapted to accomplish its purpose:

Brigadier-General William B. Hazen, Chief Signal Officer, United States
Army; Captain James A. Greer, United States Navy; Lieutenant-Commander
B.H. McCalla, United States Navy; Captain George W. Davis, Fourteenth
Infantry, United States Army.

The board will meet in Washington, D.C., on the 20th instant.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the
Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third
section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved
January 16, 1883, the following rule and the amendment to Rule XVI for
the regulation and improvement of the executive civil service are hereby
promulgated:

RULE XXI.

1. No person shall be promoted, without examination under these rules,
from any position for which