eligible for appointment to regular places by reinstatement under the
provisions of Departmental Rule X, in the order of their employment as
substitutes as provided in said section 7, notwithstanding the
prohibition contained in the second proviso of said section; and said
substitutes shall have preference for appointment in the manner herein
provided over all other eligibles.

This section shall become inoperative and cease to be a part of the
civil-service rules when all of the substitutes now employed in the
several Departments shall have been appointed as herein provided or
shall have ceased to be eligible for appointment by reason of the
expiration of the time within which a reinstatement can be made under
Rule X.


Approved, April 12, 1893.

GROVER CLEVELAND.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 8, 1893_.

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
almost entirely spent in listening to applications for office, which
have been bewildering in volume, perplexing and exhausting in their
iteration, and impossible of remembrance.