Presidential Order Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order—Civil Service: Classification of Indian Service

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Monday, April 13, 1891

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1 min read (273 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

Early Statesman synthesis distilling legal jargon into practical meaning, statutory anchors, and structural constitutional impacts.

This executive order, signed by President Benjamin Harrison on 1891-04-13, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "—Civil Service: Classification of Indian Service." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

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

▪ Provided , That no person who may be required by law to be appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and that no person who may be employed merely as a laborer or workman or in connection with any contract schools, shall be considered as within this classification, and no person so employed shall be assigned to the duties of a classified place.

▪ It is further ordered, That no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an appropriate examination under the United States Civil Service Commission and his or her eligibility has been certified to by said Commission or the appropriate board of examiners.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Merchants, Importers & Commercial Enterprises 🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants

Total Words

273

1,652 characters

Estimated Read Time

1 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

19.6

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

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Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order, "Executive Order—Civil Service: Classification of Indian Service," Benjamin Harrison (Apr 13, 1891). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-civil-service-classification-indian-service.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Washington, April 13, 1891. By direction of the President of the United States and in accordance with the third clause of section 6 of an act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883-- It is ordered , That all physicians, school superintendents and assistant superintendents, school-teachers, and matrons in the Indian service be, and they are hereby, arranged in the following classes, without regard to salary or compensation: Class 1. Physicians. Class 2. School superintendents and assistant superintendents. Class 3. School-teachers. Class 4. Matrons. Provided , That no person who may be required by law to be appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and that no person who may be employed merely as a laborer or workman or in connection with any contract schools, shall be considered as within this classification, and no person so employed shall be assigned to the duties of a classified place. It is further ordered, That no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an appropriate examination under the United States Civil Service Commission and his or her eligibility has been certified to by said Commission or the appropriate board of examiners. JOHN W. NOBLE, Secretary . EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 13, 1891. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR: I approve of the within classification, and if you see no reason to suggest any further modification you will please put it in force. BENJ. HARRISON