Done at the city of Washington, this 20th day of July, A.D. 1893, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and eighteenth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
W.Q. GRESHAM,
_Secretary of State_.




EXECUTIVE ORDERS.


AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

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 appropriations for the
fiscal year ending June 30,1894, the employment of substitutes in the
departmental service must cease from and after July 1, 1893, it is
hereby ordered, in view of the fact that the substitutes now employed
were appointed by regular certification under section 7 of this rule,
that such of said substitutes as shall not be appointed to regular
places before the employment of substitutes shall cease shall be