Evaluated strictly through the U.S. Constitution (Articles I–VII) & Amendments from an Early Statesman's prism
Rule VI of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by adding to the exceptions from examination in the departmental service a new clause, to read as follows: (d) Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution, in charge of United States National Museum. Approved, January 27, 1897....
Grover Cleveland In accordance with the third clause of section 6 of the act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883-- It is ordered, That the officers and employees in or under this office included within the provisions of the c...
Grover Cleveland Hon. JUDSON HARMON, Attorney-General of the United States. DEAR SIR: The bill which has been for some time pending before the Congress providing for the adjustment and extension of the indebtedness of the Pacific railroads to the Government of the United States has been defeated ...
Grover Cleveland Amend Rule V, section 4, prescribing age limitations for the classified service, by striking out the table after the tenth line and substituting therefor the following: Minimum. Maximum Departmental Service: Page, messenger boy, apprentice, or student----------------- 14 20 Print...
Grover Cleveland Amend Rule VIII by striking out section 12 and substituting therefor the following: Whenever there are no names of eligibles upon a register for any grade in which a vacancy exists, and the public interest requires that it must be filled before eligibles can be provided by the Co...
Grover Cleveland Amend clause 2 (b) of Rule III by adding at the end thereof the following: And all officers and employees in the penitentiary service who are by law subject to classification. Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.
Grover Cleveland The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as follows: Rule I, section 2, clause (b) : In the third line, after the word "act," insert "and these rules;" so that as amended the clause will read: (b) The term" classified service" refers to all that part of ...
Grover Cleveland The regulations of the Navy Department governing the employment of labor at navy-yards having been adopted by the Civil Service Commission as a regulation of the Commission July 29, 1896, under the authority conferred by clause 1, Rule I, of the revised civil-service rules of May...
Grover Cleveland The civil-service rules are hereby amended as follows: Rule III, clause 2 (a), is amended by adding after the words "the light-house service" the words "the life-saving service." Paragraph (b) of the same rule and clause is amended by striking out after the words "who are in the ...
Grover Cleveland In the exercise of the authority vested in the President by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third (1753d) section of the Revised Statutes-- It is ordered , That the office of the Interstate Commerce Commission be, and the same is hereby, classified as a part of the classified dep...
Grover Cleveland In the exercise of power vested in him by the Constitution and of authority given to him by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and by an act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883, the President...
Grover Cleveland Special Departmental Rule No. 1, clause 3, is hereby amended by striking from the list of places excepted from examination in the Department of the Interior assistant attorneys and law clerks, and these places will hereafter be treated as subject to competitive examination. Appro...
Grover Cleveland So much of the Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c) , as provides for the appointment of members of the board of pension appeals in the Department of the Interior by non-competitive examination is hereby revoked, and these places will h...
Grover Cleveland 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 classificati...
Grover Cleveland Section 5 of Customs Rule II is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: (i) Any person appointed to a position which requires only a portion of his time and attention for the performance of its duties, pays him a compensation not exceeding $300 per annum, and permits of h...
Grover Cleveland Section 5 of Internal-Revenue Rule IV is hereby amended by adding at the end of the first paragraph thereof the following: And provided further, That whenever an emergency shall arise requiring that a vacant position in any internal-revenue district shall be filled before a certi...
Grover Cleveland So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c), as provides for the appointment of special agents in the Department of Labor by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked. Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.
Grover Cleveland Special Departmental Rule No. 1, clause 8, is hereby amended by striking from the list of places excepted from examination in the Department of Labor statistical experts and temporary experts. Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.
Grover Cleveland Section 2 of Postal Rule I is hereby amended by inserting after the word "thereto" in line 6 the following: And whenever, by order of the postmaster-General, any post-office shall be consolidated with and made part of another post-office where free delivery is established, all th...
Grover Cleveland Lieutenant-General John M. Schofield having reached the age entitling him to relief from active military service, he is, in accordance with the provisions of law, hereby placed upon the retired list of the Army, to date September 29, 1895, with all the pay and allowances belongin...
Grover Cleveland It being of great importance that the consuls and commercial agents of the United States shall possess the proper qualifications for their respective positions, to be asertained either through a satisfactory record of previous actual service under the Department of State or throu...
Grover Cleveland Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended to except from examination in the Department of the Treasury, in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, forty-three compositors and eight pressmen now temporarily employed under authority of the sundry civil act of March 2, 1895, such ...
Grover Cleveland Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended by striking out from the list of places excepted from examination in all the Departments "bookbinders." Approved: GROVER CLEVELAND.
Grover Cleveland Government Printing Office Rule II, section 2, is hereby amended by omitting in line I, after the words "under 21," the words "or over 45," and in line 2, after the words "under 18," the words "or over 35." The section as amended will read as follows: 2. Any male citizen of the U...
Grover Cleveland So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c), as provides for the appointment of compositors and pressmen by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked, and hereafter compositors and pressmen will be appointed by competitive examin...
Grover Cleveland 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 eng...
Grover Cleveland 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 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 classificati...
Grover Cleveland 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 se...
Grover Cleveland 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 ...
Grover Cleveland 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). ...
Grover Cleveland 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 e...
Grover Cleveland DEPARTMENTAL RULE VIII. Section I, 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...
Grover Cleveland 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 photogr...
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 ...
Grover Cleveland 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 ...
Grover Cleveland ADOPTING AND PROMULGATING ORDER. 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 Januar...
Grover Cleveland Executive Mansion, July 9, 1895. It is hereby ordered that the following-described tracts of country in the Territory of Oklahoma, viz: Section 31, and the south half of sections 29 and 30, in township 14 north, of range 20 west of the Indian meridian, be, and the same are hereby...
Grover Cleveland It is hereby ordered, That the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office be closed on Thursday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers and sailors who fell in defense of the Union during the ...
Grover Cleveland To the Heads of the Executive Departments: As a mark of respect to the memory of the Hon. Walter Q. Gresham, late Secretary of State, the President directs that the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office, in the city of Washington, be closed on Wednesday...
Grover Cleveland 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 Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to amend the classification of the D...
Grover Cleveland DEPARTMENTAL RULE II. Section 3 is hereby amended as follows: At the end of clause (b) add the following: "nor the cashier, nor the two clerks employed as assistant disbursing clerks in the division of accounts and disbursements in the Department of Agriculture." At the end of cl...
Grover Cleveland Special Departmental Rule No. 1, clause 3, is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination in the Department of the Interior the following: In the Bureau of Education: Specialist in foreign educational systems and specialist in education as a preventive of pau...
Grover Cleveland Special Departmental Rule No. 1, section 6, is hereby amended by striking out the whole of said section and substituting therefor the following: 6. In the Department of Agriculture, in the office of the Secretary: Private secretary to the chief clerk, and wood engravers; scientif...
Grover Cleveland The Executive order heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c) , that provides for the appointment of four clerks in the division of accounts and disbursements in the Department of Agriculture by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked, and hereafter the...
Grover Cleveland Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended as follows: Include among the places excepted from examination therein the following: 6. In the Department of Agriculture: The chief of the dairy division. Approved, May 24, 1895. GROVER CLEVELAND, President.
Grover Cleveland ADOPTING AND PROMULGATING ORDER. 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 Januar...
Grover Cleveland Whereas on November 2, 1894, Departmental Rule II, section 4, Customs Rule II, section 6, Postal Rule II, section 6, Railway Mail Rule II, section 6, were amended to declare that no person appointed to a place under any exception to examination should be transferred from such pla...
Grover Cleveland The Executive order dated February 26, 1891, establishing limits of punishment for enlisted men of the Army, under an act of Congress approved September 27, 1890, and which was published in General Orders, No. 21, 1891, Headquarters of the Army, is amended so as to prescribe as f...
Grover Cleveland Indian Rule IV is amended by adding at the end thereof a new section, to read as follows: 7. Graduates of Indian normal schools and of normal classes in Indian schools may be employed in the Indian-school service as assistant teachers or day-school teachers without further examin...
Grover Cleveland GENERAL RULES. General Rule II: Strike out the word "five" in line 1 and insert in lieu thereof the word "six," and add at the end of the rule a new clause, as follows: 6. The classified internal-revenue service. General Rule III, section 5: Insert after the word "may" in line 1 ...
Grover Cleveland Departmental Rule VII, clause 8, is hereby amended to read as follows: In case of the occurrence of a vacancy in 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 Commi...
Grover Cleveland Postal Rule II, clause 5, is amended by striking out paragraph (e) and relettering paragraph (f) as (e), so that as amended the clause will read: 5. Exceptions from examination in the classified postal service are hereby made as follows: (a) Assistant postmaster, or the chief ass...
Grover Cleveland Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section, to be numbered 9: The Commission shall certify for transfer and reappointment to any classified non-excepted place in the departmental service, upon the requisition of the head of a Department, any p...
Grover Cleveland Special Departmental Rule No. 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: Geologist, assistant geologist, paleo...
Grover Cleveland DEPARTMENTAL RULE VII. Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding to the first paragraph of section 1 the following proviso: Provided further, That sea post clerks in the Post-Office Department shall be appointed by transfer from the classified railway mail service or the ...
Grover Cleveland 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 Postmaster-General is hereby directed to amend the classification of the Post-Of...
Grover Cleveland 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 se...
Grover Cleveland Postal Rule II is hereby amended by striking out all of section 5 and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 5. Exceptions from examination in the classified postal service are hereby made as follows: (a) Assistant postmaster or the chief assistant to the postmaster, by whateve...
Grover Cleveland INDIAN RULE IV Section 6 of Indian Rule IV is hereby amended by inserting the following proviso at the end of the first sentence: Provided, That the certificates of graduation of the Indian graduates of the normal classes at Santa Fe, N. Mex.; Salem, Oreg.; Haskell Institute, Law...
Grover Cleveland DEPARTMENTAL RULE II. Departmental Rule II, clause 3 (f), is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: "and of pomology;" so that as amended the paragraph will read: (f) Chiefs of divisions, except in the Department of Agriculture the chiefs of the followin...
Grover Cleveland Customs Rule I is hereby amended as follows: In section 2, line 2, strike out the word "fifty" and insert in lieu thereof the word "twenty." Customs Rule II is hereby amended as follows: In section 6, line 1, strike out the word "hereby," and after the word "made," at the end of ...
Grover Cleveland GENERAL RULE III. General Rule III is hereby amended by striking out clause (b) of section 2 and relettering the remaining clauses of the section accordingly. DEPARTMENTAL RULES. Departmental Rule II is hereby amended as follows: In section 4, line 1, strike out the word "hereby"...
Grover Cleveland Departmental Rule VII, clause I, is hereby amended by inserting at the end of line 6 the following: Vacancies in places authorized to be filled by noncompetitive examination may be filled without examination for a period not exceeding thirty days, until a regular appointment can ...
Grover Cleveland Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places therein excepted from examination in the Department of the Treasury the following: In the Bureau of Statistics: One expert in mechanical designs and in diagramming commercial and financial facts. Approved, ...
Grover Cleveland 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 revise the classificat...
Grover Cleveland DEPARTMENTAL RULE II. Departmental Rule II, clause 3 (f), is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: Except in the Department of Agriculture the chiefs of the following divisions: Entomology and economic ornithology and mammalogy. SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RUL...
Grover Cleveland Special Customs Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination therein the following: In the customs district of Boston, office of the collector: One superintendent of warehouses. In the customs district of Philadelphia, office of the collector: Fi...
Grover Cleveland Special Indian Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination therein the following: Kindergarten teachers, to be employed as such, not exceeding twenty in number. Approved, June 21, 1894. GROVER CLEVELAND.
Grover Cleveland BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES It is hereby ordered, That the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office be closed on Wednesday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers and sailors who f...
Grover Cleveland 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 revise the classificat...
Grover Cleveland SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO. I. Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the exceptions from examination therein made in the Department of the Treasury the following: In the office of the Second Auditor: One skilled laborer with duties exclusively of a carp...
Grover Cleveland Section 6 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by striking from the list of excepted places in the Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture enumerated therein the following: The three professors of meteorology of highest grade. Said section is further amend...
Grover Cleveland So much of clause 5 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1, providing lot exceptions from examination in the office of the Secretary in the Department of Agriculture, as excepts "clerk to act as appointment clerk" is hereby revoked, and that position will hereafter be treated as subj...
Grover Cleveland SPECIAL INDIAN RULE NO. I. Exceptions from examination are hereby made as follows: One superintendent and the necessary teachers, not exceeding four in number, lot the organization and equipment of a normal school to be established at Albuquerque, N. Mex., this rule to expire by ...
Grover Cleveland So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (d) , as provides for the appointment of fish culturists upon noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked, and hereafter fish culturists will be appointed upon competitive examination. GROVER...
Grover Cleveland GENERAL RULE III. Amend General Rule III by striking out clause (e) of section 2. DEPARTMENTAL RULE II. Amend Departmental Rule II by striking out the whole of section I and substituting therefor the following: 1. To test fitness for the classified departmental service there shal...
Grover Cleveland Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section: 9. In case of the sudden occurrence of a vacancy in the position of observer in the Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture which the public interest requires shall be immediately filled, and...
Grover Cleveland The promotion regulations applied to the War Department May 7, 1887, under authority contained in amended Civil-Service Rule VI are hereby revoked, and hereafter promotions in that Department, until otherwise provided, will be made in accordance with the provisions of Departmenta...
Grover Cleveland Executive Mansion, September 11, 1893. It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands situated and lying in the State of Washington, viz: Commencing at a point in the middle of the mouth of the Hoh River, Jefferson County, Washington, and running thence up said river in ...
Grover Cleveland Washington, D. C. Clause 2 of Departmental Rule VIII is hereby amended by inserting after the letter "d" in parentheses in line 2 the following: "until after absolute appointment and," and by striking out all after the word "transferred" in line 4 to and including the word "made"...
Grover Cleveland In accordance with section 16 of the act of Congress approved April 25, 1890, and entitled "An act to provide for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufacture...
Grover Cleveland 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 an...
Grover Cleveland Postal Rule No. 2 is hereby amended as follows: Strike out all of section 1 except the last paragraph, relating to noncompetitive examinations, and insert in lieu thereof the following: 1. To test the fitness for admission to the classified postal service one or more examinations...
Grover Cleveland It is hereby ordered , That the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office be closed on Tuesday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers and sailors who fell in the defense of the Union during ...
Grover Cleveland It has become apparent after two months' experience that the rules heretofore promulgated regulating interviews with the President have wholly failed in their operation. The time which under these rules was set apart for the reception of Senators and Representatives has been almo...
Grover Cleveland Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section: 8. The First Comptroller of the Treasury having advised the Secretary of the Treasury that under the operation of section 5 of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act making approp...
Grover Cleveland Whereas by an act of Congress entitled "An act to enable the President to protect the interests of the United States in Panama," approved February 25, 1889, it was enacted as follows: That there be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro...
Grover Cleveland EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 19, 1889. It is hereby ordered that the following-described tracts of land situate in Washington Territory, viz: Lots 3, 4, 5, and 6, section 21; lots 10, 11, and 12, and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter, section 22; fractional section 27...
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 heretofore approved by you authorizing noncompetitive examination under General Rule III, section 2, clause (e) , to test fitn...
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, s...
Grover Cleveland UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Washington, D.C., February 8, 1889. The President. SIR: The Commission recommends that Special Departmental Rule No. I be amended by adding to the exceptions from examination therein declared the following: "11. In the Department of Justice...
Grover Cleveland 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 fix...
Grover Cleveland Amendments to General Rules II, III, IV, Departmental Rules V, VIII, Customs Rule III, and Postal Rules II, VI, are hereby made and promulgated as follows: GENERAL RULE II. In line I strike out the word "three" and insert in place thereof the word "four." At the end of the rule i...
Grover Cleveland UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Washington, D.C., December 5, 1888. 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: "10. In all the Departments: Book...
Grover Cleveland To the Civil Service Commission. GENTLEMEN: The efficiency of the public service, in my opinion, renders it necessary to include in the classified service and subject to examination the employees in the railway mail service. The difficulties in the way of this movement can, I bel...
Grover Cleveland UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1888. The President, SIR: The order heretofore approved by you authorizing noncompetitive examinations under General Rule III, section 2, clause (e), to test fitness for certain designated places in the classif...
Grover Cleveland The foregoing amendments are hereby approved. GROVER CLEVELAND
Grover Cleveland Clause (e) of section 2 of General Rule III is amended by adding thereto the following, and as thus amended is hereby promulgated: But no person appointed to such a place upon noncompetitive examination shall within one year after appointment be transferred or appointed to any pl...
Grover Cleveland UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1888 . The PRESIDENT. SIR: Approval of the following order for noncompetitive examinations under the provisions of General Rule III, section 2, clause (e), of Revised Civil-Service Rules, is respectfully recomm...
Grover Cleveland UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1888. The PRESIDENT. SIR: Approval of the following order for noncompetitive examinations under the provisions of General Rule III, section 2, clause (e) , of Revised Civil-Service Rules, is respectfully recomm...
Grover Cleveland The foregoing amendment is hereby approved. GROVER CLEVELAND The following amendments to departmental rules are hereby made and promulgated: To Departmental Rule IV: After the word "service," in section I of said rule, insert the following: Provided, That any person may apply for...
Grover Cleveland The foregoing amendment is hereby approved. GROVER CLEVELAND Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the first sentence of section I the following: Provided, That no certification shall be made from the clerk or any supplementary register to any Departm...
Grover Cleveland SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO. I. So much of Special Departmental Rule No. I, approved July 2, 1888, as applies to the Department of Agriculture is hereby amended and promulgated as follows: 7. In the Department of Agriculture: In the office of the Commissioner: Private secretary ...
Grover Cleveland UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Washington, D.C., October 17, 1888. The PRESIDENT. SIR: This Commission has been informed by the Treasury Department that an additional teller has been authorized to be appointed at the custom-house in the city of New York, and that his imm...
Grover Cleveland UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Washington, D.C., August 25, 1888. The PRESIDENT. SIR: The Commission respectfully submits for your consideration the following extract from the minutes of its proceedings of August 23, 1888: "Navy Department, August 23. Harmony, Acting Sec...
Grover Cleveland WAR DEPARTMENT By direction of the President, Major-General John M. Schofield is assigned to the command of the Army of the United States. WM. C. ENDICOTT, Secretary of War.
Grover Cleveland SPECIAL CUSTOMS RULE NO. I. In addition to exceptions from examination in the classified customs service made under Customs Rule II, clause 5, the following special exceptions are made: In the Boston customs district, office of the naval officer: Assistant deputy naval officer. A...
Grover Cleveland The Heads of Departments: As a mark of respect to the memory of General Sheridan, the President directs that the several Executive Departments in the city of Washington be closed and all public business at the national capital suspended on Saturday, August 11 instant, the day of ...
Grover Cleveland SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO. 2. No substitute shall hereafter be employed in any Department; and the head of any Department in which substitutes are now employed may appoint any of such substitutes to take the place of his principal, or to any place of lower grade: Provided, Tha...
Grover Cleveland SPECIAL DEPARTMENTAL RULE NO. I. In addition to the exceptions from examination made by Departmental Rule III, clause 2, the following exceptions to examinations for the classified departmental service are hereby made, viz: I. In the Department of State: Lithographer. 2. In the D...
Grover Cleveland Ordered , That noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for the following designated places in the classified departmental service be, and are hereby, authorized: 1. In all the Departments: Engineers, assistant engineers, pressmen, and compositors. 2. In the Department of the ...
Grover Cleveland CLASSIFIED POSTAL SERVICE, SPECIAL RULE NO. I. In addition to the exceptions from examination in the classified postal service made by Postal Rule II, clause 5, the following exception to examination in that service is hereby made: Printers, employed as such. Provided , That befo...
Grover Cleveland UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Washington, D.C., June 2, 1888. The PRESIDENT. SIR: In the force employed in the office of the collector of customs at the port of New York there are eight tellers who receive and count the money paid in at that office, amounting to $500,00...
Grover Cleveland Under the provisions of section 4 of the act approved March 3, 1883, it is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Wednesday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in ...
Grover Cleveland To the People of the United States: The painful duty devolves upon the President to announce the death, at an early hour this morning, at his residence in this city, of Morrison R. Waite, Chief Justice of the United States, which exalted office he had filled since March 4, 1874, ...
Grover Cleveland To the United States Civil Service Commission. GENTLEMEN: I desire to make a suggestion regarding subdivision (c), General Rule III, of the amended civil-service rules promulgated February 2, 1888. It provides for the promotion of an employee in a Department who is below or outsi...
Grover Cleveland In the exercise of authority vested in the President by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof and asce...
Grover Cleveland REVISED CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 2, 1888. In the exercise of power vested in him by the Constitution and of authority given to him by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and by an act to regulate and improve the civil serv...
Grover Cleveland DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, October 24, 1887. By direction of the President the undersigned is charged with the sad duty of announcing the death, on the 22d instant, at 4 o'clock p.m., at his residence, Chicago, Ill., of Elihu B. Washburne, an illustrious citizen, formerly S...
Grover Cleveland (See acts of Congress, approved May 5, 1864, 13 Stats., 63, June 18. 1878, 20 Stats., 165, and May 24, 1888, 25 Stats., 157.) War Department, Washington City, August 31, 1887. To the President: Sir: Upon recommendation of the commanding general, Division of the Missouri, I have t...
Grover Cleveland It appearing to me that the promoters of the International Military Encampment to be held in Chicago in October proximo, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of that city, have extended to the militia organizations of foreign countries, in behalf of the ...
Grover Cleveland The SECRETARY OF WAR: I have to-day considered with more care than when the subject was orally presented me the action of your Department directing letters to be addressed to the governors of all the States offering to return, if desired, to the loyal States the Union flags captu...
Grover Cleveland WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Honorable GOVERNOR OF ________. SIR: The President of the United States having approved the recommendation that all the flags in the custody of the War Department be returned to the authorities of the respective States in which the regim...
Grover Cleveland WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, June _____, 1887. Hon. _____ ______, Governor of ______ . SIR: Referring to the letter from this office dated June ____, 1887, on the subject of the return to the respective States of the flags now in the custody of the War D...
Grover Cleveland WAR DEPARTMENT The within recommendation approved by the President, and the Adjutant-General will prepare letters to governors of those States whose troops carried the colors and flags now in this Department, with the offer to return them as herein proposed. The history of each f...
Grover Cleveland WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, May 18, 1887. To the PRESIDENT: SIR: Upon recommendation of the Lieutenant-General commanding the Army, I have the honor to request that the following-described tract of land in the Territory of Wyoming, embraced within the limits of the Wind Rive...
Grover Cleveland The executive offices and Departments at the seat of Government, including the public printing establishment, will be closed at noon on Thursday, the 12th instant, to enable persons employed therein to attend the exercises at the unveiling of the statue of the late president Garf...
Grover Cleveland 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, Rules IV, VI, XIX, XXI of the rules for the regulation and impr...
Grover Cleveland WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE Hon. WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT, Secretary of War. SIR: I have the honor to state that there are now in this office, stored in one of the attic rooms of the building, a number of Union flags captured in action, but recovered on the fall of the C...
Grover Cleveland REGULATIONS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF ARMS, ORDNANCE STORES, QUARTERMASTER'S STORES, AND CAMP EQUIPAGE TO THE TERRITORIES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, PRESCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONFORMITY WITH THE SECOND SECTION OF THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIO...
Grover Cleveland EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 14, 1887. It is hereby ordered that the lands embraced in section 23, township 7 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino meridian, California, be, and the same hereby are, withdrawn from sale and settlement, and set apart for the use and occupatio...
Grover Cleveland EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 11, 1887. It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the public domain in the Territory of New Mexico which, when surveyed, will be embraced in the following townships, viz: 27, 28, 29, and 30 north, ranges 1 east, and 1, 2, and 3 west; 31 and 32 no...
Grover Cleveland EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 29, 1887. It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in the State of California, being part of the lands restored to the public domain by Executive order dated March 22, 1886, be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and set apart f...
Grover Cleveland 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 for the regulation and improvement of the ex...
Grover Cleveland JANUARY 4, 1887. 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 regulations governing promotions...
Grover Cleveland It is hereby ordered , That the Department of Agriculture, the Government Printing Office, and all other. Government offices in the District of Columbia be closed on Monday, the 22d instant, the day of the funeral of the late Chester Alan Arthur, ex-President of the United States...
Grover Cleveland Special Order. NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 18, 1886. The President of the United States announces the death of ex-President Chester Alan Arthur in the following proclamation (order): It is hereby directed, in pursuance of the instructions of the President, that on the d...
Grover Cleveland GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 84. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, November 18, 1886. I. The following proclamation (order) has been received from the President: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C . November 18, 1886. To the People of the United States: It i...
Grover Cleveland Hon. DANIEL MANNING, Secretary of the Treasury. DEAR SIR: In pursuance of a joint resolution of the Congress approved March 3, 1877, authorizing the President to cause suitable regulations to be made for the maintenance of the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," now locat...
Grover Cleveland Executive Mansion, October 1, 1886. It is hereby ordered that the following tract of country in Washington Territory, reserved for the use and occupation of the Chehalis Indians, by order of the Secretary of the Interior, dated July 8, 1864, be, and the same is hereby, restored t...
Grover Cleveland 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 for the regulation and improvement of the ex...
Grover Cleveland To the Heads of Departments in the Service of the General Government: I deem this a proper time to especially warn all subordinates in the several Departments and all officeholders under the General Government against the use of their official positions in attempts to control pol...
Grover Cleveland To Heads of the Government Departments: Inasmuch as the 4th of July of the present year falls upon Sunday and the celebration of Independence Day is to be generally observed upon Monday, July 5, it is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agricu...
Grover Cleveland Under the provisions of section 4 of the act approved March 3, 1883, it is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Monday, the 31st instant, to enable the employees to participate in the...
Grover Cleveland EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 4, 1886. It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in the Territory of Idaho, viz: Township 15 south, ranges 1, 2, and 3, east of the Boise meridian, be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart as an addition ...
Grover Cleveland Executive Mansion, April 24, 1886. It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the Territory of New Mexico, viz, all those portions of townships 29 north, ranges 14, 15, and 16 west of the New Mexico principal meridian, south of the San Juan River, be, a...
Grover Cleveland 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 for the regulation and improvement of the ex...
Grover Cleveland EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 23, 1886. It is hereby ordered that the Executive order dated June 19, 1883, setting apart certain described lands in the State of California for Indian purposes be, and the same is hereby, canceled, so far as relates to east half southeast quarter, north...
Grover Cleveland Tidings of the death of Winfield Scott Hancock, the senior major-general of the Army of the United States, have just been received. A patriotic and valiant defender of his country, an able and heroic soldier, a spotless and accomplished gentleman, crowned alike with the laurels o...
Grover Cleveland Whereas in an Executive order dated the 21st day of July, 1875, directing the distribution of the fund of 400,000 pesetas received from the Spanish Government in satisfaction of the reclamation of the United States arising from the capture of the Virginius , it was provided "that...
Grover Cleveland It is hereby ordered, That the Department of Agriculture, the Government Printing Office, and all other Government offices in the District of Columbia be closed on Tuesday, December 1, 1885, the day of the funeral of the late Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice-President of the United Stat...
Grover Cleveland 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, 1833, the following rules for the regulation and improvement of the e...
Grover Cleveland Special Order. NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 25, 1885. The President of the United States announces the death of Vice-President Thomas A. Hendricks in the following order: In pursuance of the foregoing order, it is hereby directed that upon the day following the receipt o...
Grover Cleveland To the People of the United States: Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice-President of the United States, died to-day at 5 o'clock p.m. at Indianapolis, and it becomes my mournful duty to announce the distressing fact to his fellow-countrymen. In respect to the memory and the eminent and var...
Grover Cleveland WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE I. The following proclamation (order) of the President of the United States is published for the information and guidance of all concerned:
Grover Cleveland The death of George B. McClellan, at one time the Major-General Commanding the Army of the United States, took place at an early hour this morning. As a mark of public respect to the memory of this distinguished soldier and citizen, whose military ability and civic virtues have s...
Grover Cleveland Under a provision of an act of Congress entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of a commission by the President of the United States to run and mark the boundary lines between a portion of the Indian Territory and the State of Texas, in connection with a similar commission...
Grover Cleveland 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 special rule for the regulation and improvement o...
Grover Cleveland Whereas, by a provision of the act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1885, for the suppression of epidemic diseases, the President of ...
Grover Cleveland Under a provision of an act of Congress entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of a commission by the President of the United States to run and mark the boundary lines between a portion of the Indian Territory and the State of Texas, in connection with a similar commission...
Grover Cleveland To Head of each Executive Department: It is hereby ordered, That the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed to-morrow, Friday, August 7, at 3 o'clock p.m., to enable such employees as may desire to attend the fun...
Grover Cleveland 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 seventh clause of Rule XIX for the regulation and improveme...
Grover Cleveland Special Order. NAVY DEPARTMENT The President of the United States announces the death of ex-President Ulysses S. Grant in the following proclamation: In pursuance of the President's instructions, it is hereby directed that the ensign at each naval station and of each vessel of th...
Grover Cleveland GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 81 HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, July 23, 1885. I. The following proclamation has been received from the President: II. In compliance with the instructions of the President, on the day of the funeral, at each military post, t...
Grover Cleveland Heads of all Government Departments: Ex-President Ulysses S. Grant died this morning at 8 o'clock. In respect to his memory it is ordered that all of the offices of the Executive Departments in the city of Washington be closed to-day at 1 o'clock. GROVER CLEVELAND
Grover Cleveland 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 special rule for the regulation and improvement o...
Grover Cleveland 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 eighth clause of Rule XIX for the regulation and improvemen...
Grover Cleveland 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 for the regulation and improvement of the ex...
Grover Cleveland Under the provisions of section 4 of the act approved March 3, 1883. it is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Saturday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in t...
Grover Cleveland Under a provision of an act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the armament thereof, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1885, a board, to consist of the office...
Grover Cleveland Whereas the Government of His Majesty the King of Italy has extended to the Government of the United States an invitation to participate in a sanitary conference to be held at Rome on the 15th day of May, 1885, for the purpose of devising efficient measures to prevent the invasio...
Grover Cleveland 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 for the regulation and improvement of the ex...
Grover Cleveland