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




EXECUTIVE ORDER.


AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, _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" in line 7; so
that as amended the clause will read:

2. No person may be transferred as herein authorized, except as provided
in section 1, clause (_d_), until after absolute appointment and
until the Commission shall have certified to the officer making the
transfer requisition that the person whom it is proposed to transfer has
passed an examination to test fitness for the place to which he is to be
transferred: _Provided_, That no person who has been appointed from
the copyist register shall be transferred to a place the salary of which
is more than $900 per annum until one year after appointment.