Office: Provided, That certification may be made, subject to the other conditions of this rule, for the reinstatement of any person who served in the military or naval service of the United States in the late War of the Rebellion and was honorably dis charged therefrom, or the widow of any such person, without regard to the length of time he or she has been separated from the service. RULE VIII. The Public Printer shall report to the Commission— (a) Every probational and every absolute appointment to the service of the Government Printing Office. (b) Every refusal to make an absolute appointment and the reason therefor, and every declination of an appointment. (c) Every separation from the service of the Government Printing Office and the cause of such separation, whether death, resignation, or dismissal. Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND. CIVIL SERVICE.—EXECUTIVE ORDER WITHDRAWING ENGINEERS AND ASSISTANT ENGINEERS FROM THE LIST OF PLACES TO BE FILLED BY NONCOMPETITIVE EXAMINATION. So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c), as provides for the appointment of engineers and assistant engineers by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked, and hereafter engineers and assistant engineers will be appointed by competitive examination. Approved, June 25, 1895. GROVER CLEVELAND. In the exercise of the power vested in him by the Constitution, by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and the act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883, the President hereby makes and promulgates the following rule to cancel and be in lieu of Customs Rule V of the Revised Civil-Service Rules: CUSTOMS RULE V. 1. Until promotion regulations have been applied to a classified customs district the following promotions may be made therein at any time after absolute appoint ment: (a) Any employee in any grade, upon any test of fitness determined upon by the nominating officer, to any vacant place in the class next above the one in which he may be serving, except to the positions of weigher and gauger. (b) Any employee in any grade may be promoted or transferred to a vacancy in the lowest class of the grade of examiner after passing the examiner examination, to a vacancy in the lowest class of the grade of weigher after passing the weigher examination, to a vacancy in the lowest class of the grade of gauger after passing the gauger examination, or to a vacancy in the lowest class of any other grade than the one in which he may be serving upon passing the examination provided for that grade. Approved, July 11, 1895. GROVER CLEVELAND. CIVIL SERVICE.-CLASSIFICATION OF THE PENSION AGENCIES OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 15, 1895. In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the third paragraph of section 6 of the act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883, I hereby direct the Secretary of the Interior to amend the classification of the Department of the Interior so as to include among the employees classified thereunder the officers, clerks, and other employees of the pension agencies of said Department. GROVER CLEVELAND. AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. DEPARTMENTAL RULE VIII. Section 1, clause (a), is hereby amended as follows: Strike out the period after the word "made" in the second line, insert a semicolon, and add the following: But transfers from a pension agency of the Interior Department may be made only as follows: From a pension agency of the Interior Department to the office of the Secretary of the Interior, or of the Assistant Attorney-General for the Interior Department, or to the Pension Office, or from any of the above-named offices to a pension agency, or from one pension agency to another pension agency, upon requisition of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That a transfer from a pension agency to a position in the Interior Department shall not be made when the person to be transferred would not be eligible to original appointment in the departmental service under the law requiring an apportionment of appointments among the States, Territories, and the District of Columbia according to population. The section and clause as amended will read: 1. Transfers may be made as follows: (4) From one Department to another, upon requisition by the head of the Department to which the transfer is to be made; but transfers from a pension agency of the Interior Department may be made only as follows: From a pension agency of the Interior Department to the office of the Secretary of the Interior, or of the Assistant Attorney-General for the Interior Department, or to the Pension Office, or from any of the above-named offices to a pension agency, or from one pension agency to another pension agency, upon requisition of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That a transfer from a pension agency to a position in the Interior Department shall not be made when the person to be transferred would not be eligible to original appointment in the departmental service under the law requiring an apportionment of appointments among the States, Territories, and the District of Columbia according to population. Approved, July 15, 1895. GROVER CLEVELAND. AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. DEPARTMENTAL RULE II. Section 3, providing for exceptions from examination in the classified departmental service, is hereby amended as follows by the insertion of clause (g): One designated clerk at each pension agency (designated to sign official checks for the pension agent). Section 4 is hereby amended as follows: In the third line, after the word "examination," add the following proviso: Provided, That any person employed in an excepted place in any office or bureau at the time when said office or bureau is brought into the classified service, or any person transferred directly from a nonexcepted to an excepted place in the office or bureau in which he is serving, may at any time be directly transferred from such excepted place to any nonexcepted place in the office or bureau in which he is serving. The section as amended will read: 4. No person hereafter appointed to a place under the exceptions to examination made by any departmental rule shall be transferred from such place to a place not also excepted from examination: Provided, That any person employed in an excepted place in any office or bureau at the time when said office or bureau is brought into the classified service, or any person transferred directly from a nonexcepted to an excepted place in the office or bureau in which he is serving, may at any time be directly transferred from such excepted place to any nonexcepted place in the office or bureau in which he is serving. Approved, July 15, 1895. GROVER CLEVELAND. AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 15, 1895. Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended by striking out the whole of the paragraph in section 3, Department of the Interior, relating to the Geological Survey and substituting in lieu thereof the following: In the Geological Survey: Professional experts and special agents employed for short periods at per diem salaries and paid only when actually employed. Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND. AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-Service RuLES. DEPARTMENTAL RULE VII. Section 2 is hereby amended as follows: At the end of the section, after the word "law," add the following proviso: Provided, That appointments to positions at pension agencies shall not be charged to the apportionment. The section as amended will read as follows: 2. Certifications hereunder shall be made in such a manner as to maintain as nearly as possible the apportionment of appointments among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia as required by law: Provided, That appointments to positions at pension agencies shall not be charged to the apportionment. Section 3, paragraph 2, is hereby amended as follows: In the second fine, after the word "register," insert the following: "or when certification is made from any register to fill a vacancy at any pension agency." The paragraph as amended will read: When certification is made from a supplementary or special register or the printer's assistant or page and messenger-boy register, or when certification is made from any register to fill a vacancy at any pension agency, and there are more vacancies than one to be filled, the appointing officer may select from the three names certified more than one. Section 6 is hereby amended as follows: Strike out the word "and" at the beginning of line 9, and in line 12, after the word "appointment," insert the following proviso: And provided further, That at each pension agency at the time of the quarterly payment of pensions such temporary appointments may be made as the needs of the service may demand for a period not to exceed thirty days, which appointments shall not be extended or renewed until the date of the next quarterly payment of pensions. The section as amended will read: 6. In case of the occurrence of a vacancy n any Department which the public interest requires shall be immediately filled, and which can not be so filled by certification from the eligible registers of the Commission, such vacancy may be filled by temporary appointment outside the civil service until a regular appointment can be made under the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of this rule: Provided, That such temporary appointment shall in no case continue longer than ninety days, and shall expire by limitation at the end of that time: Provided further, That no person shall serve longer than the period herein prescribed in any one year under such temporary appointment. The year limitation in regard to reappointment shall begin to run on the date of the original appointment: And provided further, That at each pension agency at the time of the quarterly payment of pensions such temporary appointments may be made as the needs of the service may demand for a period not to exceed thirty days, which appointments shall not be extended or renewed until the date of the next quarterly payment of pensions. Every such temporary appointment and the discontinuance of the same shall at once be reported to the Commission. Approved, July 15, 1895. GROVER CLEVELAND. CIVIL SERVICE.—AMENDMENT OF CLASSIFICATION. EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 15, 1895. In pursuance of the authority contained in the third paragraph of section 6 of the act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883, the heads of the several Executive Departments are hereby directed to amend their several classifications so as to include firemen among the employees classified thereunder. GROVER CLEVELAND. AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 15, 1895. Executive orders heretofore issued designating the places to be filled by noncompetitive examination under clause (c) of General Rule III are hereby amended so as to include among those places in the Department of the Interior, in the Geological Survey, the editor and the photographer. Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND. AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended by adding to the list of places excepted from examination in the Treasury Department— In the Bureau of Immigration: One statistician and stenographer, with power to act as immigrant inspector. Approved, July 30, 1895. GROVER CLEVELAND. AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. Departmental Rule IX, clause 1, paragraph 2, is hereby amended by striking out in line 1 the words "appointed from the appropriate register to" and substituting therefor the word "occupying;" by adding before the word "messenger" in line 2 the following: "engineers, assistant engineers, firemen;" by striking out in line 3 the words "below the positions of clerk and copyist" and substituting therefor the words “the educational test for appointment to which is below the grade of the educational test required for the position of clerk or copyist;" and by adding in line 7, after the words "printers' assistants," the words "and skilled helpers." As amended the paragraph will read as follows: Any person occupying the position of engineer, assistant engineer, fireman, messenger, assistant messenger, watchman, or other subordinate position the educational test for appointment to which is below the grade of the educational test required for the position of clerk or copyist may at any time after absolute appointment, if not barred by age limitations, be transferred to any other of said subordinate positions. but shall not be promoted to the position of clerk or copyist or to any place the duties of which are clerical: Provided, That printers' assistants and skilled helpers in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department, shall only be eligi ble for transfer to the grade of operator in that Bureau. Approved, August 5, 1895. GROVER CLEVELAND. |