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 of the executive civil service is hereby promulgated:


SPECIAL RULE NO. 4.

Appointments to the 150 places in the Pension Office provided to be
filled by the act of March 3, 1885, except so far as they may be filled
by promotions or transfers, must be separately apportioned by the
appointing power in as near conformity to the second section of the act
of January 16, 1883, as the need of filling them promptly and the
residence and qualifications of the applicants will permit.


Approved, July 16, 1885.

GROVER CLEVELAND.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 23, 1885_.