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This executive order, signed by President Grover Cleveland on 1893-06-06, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "—Amendments of Civil Service Rules." It is a direct, concise executive instruction delivering focused administrative or military commands to department leadership.
Constitutional Assessment: Evaluated against the Fifth Amendment, this action touches upon property or economic rights. An early statesman would insist upon strict adherence to due process of law and the constitutional guarantee that private holdings shall not be encumbered or taken for public purposes without just compensation and lawful process.
Key Directives & Operative Actions
▪1 is hereby amended as follows: Include among the places excepted from examination therein the following: 6.
Exec. Order, "Executive Order—Amendments of Civil Service Rules," Grover Cleveland (Jun 6, 1893). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-amendments-civil-service-rules-2.
Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended as follows: Include among the places excepted from examination therein the following: 6. In the Department of Agriculture: In the office of the Secretary: The assistant chiefs of the following divisions: Of economic ornithology and mammalogy, of pomology, of microscopy, of vegetable pathology, of records and editing, and one property clerk. In the Weather Bureau: The assistant chief of the Bureau, the three professors of meteorology of highest grade, executive officer, superintendent of telegraph lines, and one property clerk. In the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries the following: Scientific or professional experts to be temporarily employed in investigations authorized by Congress, but not to include any persons regularly employed in that Commission nor any person whose duties are not scientific or professional and who are not experts in the particular line of scientific inquiry in which they are to be employed. EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 6, 1893. The foregoing amendments are hereby approved. GROVER CLEVELAND.
