# Executive Order 59

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Signed by President Grover Cleveland Saturday, March 2, 1895
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:
GENERAL RULE III.
Section 5: Insert after the word "may," in line 1, the words "in its discretion," and after the word "appointment," in line 2, the following: "or an applicant who has been guilty of a crime or of infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct." As amended the section will read:
Section 9. In line 1 strike out the word "departmental," and after the word "service," in the same line and in line 2, the words "and the classified Railway Mail Service."
GENERAL RULE V.
In line 2 change the order of words and insert other words so as to make the phrase amended read as follows: "and postmasters and customs and internal-revenue officers and custodians of public buildings."
GENERAL RULE IV.
Section 2. Insert after the word "may," in line 1, the words "in its discretion."
Departmental Rules.
DEPARTMENTAL RULE II.
In section 1, line 2, after the word "such," insert the word "other," and strike out the words "supplementary and special." In section 2, line 2, strike out the words "supplementary and special" and insert in lieu thereof the word "other."
DEPARTMENTAL RULE IV.
In section 1, after the semicolon following the word "age," in line 4, insert the following: "or for the position of messenger or assistant messenger who is not under 18 years of age; or for the position of page or messenger boy who is not under 14 or over 18 years of age."
DEPARTMENTAL RULE V.
In section 2, paragraph 6, line 1, after the word "postal," insert the words "internal revenue."
DEPARTMENTAL RULE VI.
In section 1, line 2, after the word "of," strike out the words "special and supplementary" and insert in lieu thereof the word "other." In section 4, line 7, after the word "clerk-copyist," insert the words "or the messenger and watchman." In section 5, line 3, after the word "printing," insert the words "or for page or messenger boy."
DEPARTMENTAL RULE VII.
In section 3, at the beginning of line 2, before the word "register," insert the words "the messenger or the watchman." In the second paragraph of the same section, in line 2, after the word "assistant," insert the words "or page and messenger boy."
DEPARTMENTAL RULE VIII.
In section 1 insert a clause to be lettered (c), as follows:
    (c) From a bureau of the Treasury Department in which business relating to the internal revenue is transacted to a classified internal-revenue district, and from such a district to such a bureau in the Treasury Department, upon requisition by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The remaining clauses of the section to be relettered (d) and (e), respectively.
In section 2, line 2, strike out the letter "d" in parenthesis and insert in lieu thereof the letter "e;" and at the end of the section add the following proviso:
    Provided, That a person may be transferred from a place in one department to a place requiring no higher examination in another department without examination.
DEPARTMENTAL RULE IX.
Strike out the whole of section 1 and insert in lieu thereof the following:
Strike out sections 2, 3, and 5, and renumber section 4 as 2.
Approved March 2, 1895.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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