The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-02
CIVIL SERVICE Changes.
New Rules Issued by the
President.
CLASSIFIED LIST REDUCED

Order-Changes Made I'm the Rules as
TO Competitive Examinations and
Transfers From One Class TO AM
other.
Washington, May 29.-President Nc
kinley today issued the amendments to
the civil service rules which he has had
under consideration for about a year.
They release from the operations of the
civil service rules about 1000 offices.
Among the places are the following.
Pension examining surgeons, dia
employed in the Indian service, not
connected with the Indian school ser
vice; many places in the engineer de-
partment at large; the Quartermasters
department at large; the subsistence
department at large; the ordnance de-
partment at large and Of the war de-
partment. With reference to these
places in the outside war department
service, it is provided that they shall
be subject 10 regulations to be pre-
scribed by the secretary of war and APP
proved by the president, thus placing
these branches OF the service on sub
Stantially the same basis as the navy
yard service.
The following named employees or
positions which have been classified un-
der the civil service act are excepted
from the requirements o Examination
or registration, unless otherwise stated:
Two private secretaries or confiden-
tial clerks to the president; two private
secretaries or confidential clerks to the
head Of each Of the eight executive de-
partments; one private secretary or
| rOnf6nnfia1 Plork m raPh of the a Assist
ant heads of the eight executive de-
partments; one private secretary or
confidential clerk to certain heads of
bureaus, and the same to all other
heads of bureaus if authorized by law.
AL persons appointed by the presi-
dnt without confirmation by the sem
ate.
Attorneys, assistant attorneys and
special assistant attorneys.
All shipping commissioners.
Not exceeding one cashier il each
customs district, if authorized by he
secretary of the treasury.
Not exceeding one chief or principal
deputy or assistant collector ar each
customs port; and not exceeding one
principal deputy collector of customs at
each SUPPORT or station: n deputy
naval officer at each customs port
where a naval officer is authorized by
law; one private secretary or confiden-
tANI ~ IL ~ NHN SN>-S
tary of the treasury, TO the collector Of
each customs district where the re-
ceipts for the last preceding fiscal
year amounted to as much as $5C2. 600.
All deputy collectors of internal reve-
nue. who are borne on the rolls as such
and the allowance for who's salaries is
approved by the secretary of the treas
ury; store keepers and gaugerS whose
compensation does not exceed 50 per
day when actually employed and whose
aggregate compensation shall not eX-
coed $500 per annum
Not exceeding one chief clerk in each
mint or assay office who is authorized
by law to act for the superintendent
or assayer in charge during his alb
sence or disability; one private secre-
tary or confidential clerk to the super
intendent, one cashier, one deposit
Weigh-clerk, one assistant cOiner, one
assistant melter and refiner and one as
sistant asSayer in each mint or assay
office. Provided: That appointments
to exempted positions in the customs
and revenue service shall be subject to
an examination, to be prescribed by
the secretary of'the treasury.
One clerk to each army paymaster in
actual service.
Wardens, chaplains and physicians in
the United States penitentiaries or pris-
ons.
One private secretary or confidential
i Il N " S"1l I O. "
torney.
One cashier or finance clerk at each
first class pOStOfice; one clerk, who
shall be a regular physician, at each
first class postoffice, to examine appli-
cations for sick leave and also to act
as an utility clerk.
The superintendent OF the Hot
Springs reservation.
One special land Inspector.
Special agents, employed as necessi-
ty for their employment may arise, for
the purpose of protecting public lands.
Positions in the revenue cutter ser
vice. where the persons enlist for the
season of navigation My. Any local
physician temporarily as acting as
sistant surgeon in tire marine hospital
service.
Any person employed II the marine
hospital service as quarantine at
tendant at the gulf, south Atlantic
Tortugas. Reedy island and Angel is
land quarantine, and any person tenn
porarily employed as quarantine at
tendant on quarantine vessels or II
camps or stations established for quar-
antine purposes during epidemics Of
contagious diseases in the United
States or beyond the seas.
All physicians employed as pension
examining surgeons, whether organiZ-
ed in boards or working individually
under the direction of the commissioner
of pensions.
Any person employed as office or field
deputy in the office of a United States
marshal.
A large number Of persons in the
quartermaster's, ordnance and engi-
neers department of the army are to
be appointed upon tests of fitness, as
are also the principal employees at the
nationa military parks at Gettysburg,
Shiloh, Chickamauga, Chattanooga,
Vicksburg and Antietam.
Rule " is amended so as TO require
only non-competitive examinations TO
test the fitness Of a person whom the
head of an executive department shall
nominate for appointment in the class
flied service. The amendment provides
against the ransfer of persons employ
ed under his rule to places in the COM
petitive service.
The provision covering the removal Of
persons in the classified service is al
tered materially in language n as
changed reads as follows: 4
mo removal shall be made from the