The times., 1899-05-30

any Executive Department or other Office.
"(d) Any position the duties of which
are of a quasi military or quasi-naval
character and for the performance oil
which duties a person is enlisted for a
term of years, or positions in the Revenue
Cutter Service where the persons enlist
! for the season of navigation only.
"te) Any local physician employed tenn
porarily as acting assistant surgeon in the
Marine Hospital Service.
30 Any person employed in the Ma
rine Hospital Service as quarantine at
tendant at the Gulf South Atlantic, Tor
| tugas, Reedy Island, and Angel Island
quarantines; and any person temporarily
employed as quarantine attendant on quar-
antine vessels, or in camps or stations es-
! tablished for quarantine purposes during
epidemics of contagious diseases in the
United States or beyond the seas.
'(g) Any person in the Quartermaster' S
Department at large of the United States
| Army employed as train master, chlet
packer, foreman packer, pack master mas
ter baler, foreman of laborers, superlnten-
| dent of stables, or forage master. Appoint
ments to these positions shall be made
hereafter on registration tests OF illness
prescribed in regulations to be issued py
the Secretary of War and approved by the
President.
"(h) Any person in the Medical Depart
ment at large of the United States Army
| employed as chief packer, packer, or assist
ant packer. Appointments to these posi-
| tions shall be made hereafter on regis
| tration tests of fitness prescribed in iegu-
| lations to be issued by the Secretary OF
War and approved by the President
"dD Any person in the Ordnance Depart
ment at large of the United States Army
employed as foreman, assistant foreman,
| forage master. weigher, skilled laborer'
guard, or on piecework. Appointments 10
| these positions shall be made hereafter on
registration tests of fitness prescribed in
regulations to be issued by the Secretary
of War and approved by the President.
"G) Any person in the Engineer Depart
ment at large of the United States Army
employed as subinspector, overseer, sub
overseer. superintendent, master lock man
| ager, deputy lock manager, assistant su-
perintendent of canal, chief deputy inspec-
| tor deputy inspector, rodman, stadiaman,
chain man, foreman, timekeeper, lock mas
ter, assistant lock master, custodian, store
keeper, fort keeper, torpedo keeper assist
ant torpedo keeper light keeper, board
master, subforeman, master laborer, gauge
| reader steward, dam tender, assistant
dam tender helper, carpenters helper.
machinists helper, quarry master, black
smiths helper, climber barge master, re-
corder OF vessels, track man. gardener, as
| sistant gardener, or weigher. Appoint
ments to these positions shall be made
hereafter on registration tests OF fitness
prescribed in regulations to be issued by
the Secretary of War and approved by the
President.
The Military Parks.
"q) Any persons in the national military
parks at Gettysburg, Shiloh, Chickamauga,
Chattanooga, Vicksburg, and Antietam, en-
ployed as commissioner, assistant In his
torieal work, agent for purchases of land,
historian, secretary, rodman, chairman.
assistant superintendent, chief guardian,
guardian, guard, inspector, carpenter,
steam engineer, or painter. Appointments
TO these positions shall be made hereafter
/ on registration tests of fitness prescribed
| in regulations to be issued by the Secreta-
ry of War and approved by the President.
"O ANY person employed as office or
field deputy in the Office of a United States
marshal.
"tm) All persons at navy yards, naval
stations, and at private shipbuilding and
manufacturing establishments where work
is done by contract for the Navy De-
partment, employed as special mechanics
and civilian assistant inspectors of work
and materials Including ordnance, ar
NOR plate, marine engines, hulls, build
! ings, dredgings, etc) Appointments to
these positions shall be made hereafter on
tests of fitness prescribed in paragraphs "a
to SO, inclusively, of Navy Yard Order No.
%. revised. Pending the result of such ex-
aminations the Secretary of the Navy may
appoint to the above positions qualified
persons for period not to exceed thirty
days.
''(n) All physicians employed as pen
sion examining surgeons, whether organ
| lied in boards or working individually un-
der the direction of the Commissioner of
Pensions. This paragraph shall not in
clude medical examiners in the Pension
| Office.
"(o) Indians employed in the Indian
service at large, except those employed al
superintendents. teachers, teachers of in
dustries, kindergartners, and physicians.
"(p) Temporary clerks employed in
United States local land Offices TO reduce
testimony TO writing in contest cases, not
paid from Government FUNDS.
"(O Temporary clerks employed in the
offices of surveyors general, and paid from
the funds deposited by individuals for
surveying public lands
According to this amendment to Rule III
the positions or employees indicated shall
not be subject 10 any other provisions OF
the civil service rules than sections /, 2
and of Rule II.
These sections prescribe That any per-
son in the executive civil service of the
United States who shall willfully violate
any of the provisions of the civil service
act or of these rules shall be dismissed
from office; that no person in the executive
civil service shall use his official authority
or official influence for the purpose of in
terfering with an election or controlling
the result thereof; that no person in the
executive civil service shall dismiss, OF
cause TO be dismissed, or make any at
tempt to procure the dismissal Of or in
any maner change the official rank or com
pensation of any other person therein be-
cause of his political or religious opinions
or affiliations"
| Veterans of the Wars
Rule VII, section 8, is amended by in
serting after the word rebellion the
words or the Spanish American war SC
that as amended the proviso will read:
Provided, That persons who served IL
the military or naval service of the Unit.
ed States in the late war of the rebellion
or the Spanish American war and wer,
honorably discharged therefrom, and per.
sons who have been separated from sucl
positions above mentioned through no de.
linquency or misconduct. shall be plnced a
lhe hedu oi the proper register IN the or
der of their fulhllment of said require.
ments
Section OF Rule VII is amended by in.
serting the following as the first provisC
thereof: Provided, That this term may b,
extended, in the discretion of the Com
mission, for further period of one yea
from the date of the expiration of the frs
years eligibility upon such conditions a!
the Commission may prescribe, so that "a
amended the section will read as follows
,.rhn tarrn Of alinIhiIitu ehnu ho On.