IV. This order prescribes the maximum limit of punishment for the offenses named, and this limit is intended for those cases where the severest punishment should be awarded. In other cases the punishment must be graded down according to the extenuating circumstances. Offenses not herein provided for remain punishable as authorized by the Articles of War and the custom of the service. V. Summary courts are subject to the restrictions named in the eightythird article of war. Soldiers against whom charges may be preferred for trial by summary court shall not be confined in the guardhouse, but shall be placed in arrest in quarters before and during trial and while awaiting sentence, unless in particular cases restraint may be deemed necessary. VI. The following substitutions for punishments named in Section II of this order are authorized, at the discretion of the court: Detention of pay to the extent of four times the amount of the forfeiture; two days' confinement at hard labor for $1 of forfeited pay; one day's solitary confinement on bread and water diet for two days' confinement at hard labor or for $1 of forfeited pay: Provided, That a noncommissioned officer not sentenced to reduction shall not be subject to confinement: And provided, That solitary confinement shall not exceed fourteen days at one time nor be repeated until fourteen days have elapsed, and shall not exceed eighty-four days in one year. Wherever the limit herein prescribed for an offense or offenses may be brought within the punishing power of inferior courts-martial, as defined by the eighty-third article of war, by substitution of punishment under the provisions of this section, the aforesaid courts shall be deemed to have jurisdiction of such offense or offenses. VII. Sergeants shall not if they object thereto be brought to trial before regimental, garrison, or summary courts-martial without the authority of the officer competent to order their trial by general courtmartial; nor shall sergeants of the post noncommissioned staff be reduced, but they may be dishonorably discharged whenever reduction is included in the limit of punishment. Paragraphs 105 and 254 of the Regulations, the latter as amended by General Orders, No. 67, series of 1890, AdjutantGeneral's Office, are modified accordingly. By the President: REDFIELD PROCTOR, Secretary of War. BENJ. HARRISON. AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. MARCH 4, 1891. Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among the places excepted from examination therein the following: In the Department of Agriculture, in the office of the Secretary: Clerk to act as appointment clerk. BENJ. HARRISON. AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. MARCH 16, 1891. Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among the places excepted from examination therein the following: In the Post-Office Department, office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General: Assistant superintenden: of free delivery. BENJ. HARRISON. AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. APRIL 3, 1891. Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among the places excepted from examination therein the following: In the Treasury Department, office of the Secretary: One clerk in the office of the disbursing clerk. BENJ. HARRISON. CIVIL SERVICE. CLASSIFICATION OF INDIAN SERVICE. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, By direction of the President of the United States and in accordance with the third clause of section 6 of an act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883— It is ordered, That all physicians, school superintendents and assistant superintendents, school-teachers, and matrons in the Indian service be, and they are hereby, arranged in the following classes, without regard to salary or compensation: Class 1. Physicians. Class 2. School superintendents and assistant superintendents. Class 3. School-teachers. Class 4. Matrons. Provided, That no person who may be required by law to be appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and that no person who may be employed merely as a laborer or workman or in connection with any contract schools, shall be considered as within this classification, and no person so employed shall be assigned to the duties of a classified place. It is further ordered, That no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an appropriate examination under the United States Civil Service Commission and his or her eligibility has been certified to by said Commission or the appropriate board of examiners. JOHN W. NOBLE, Secretary. EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 13, 1891. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR: I approve of the within classification, and if you see no reason to suggest any further modification you will please put it in force. BENJ. HARRISON. AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. APRIL 13, 1891. Clause (c) of section 2 of General Rale III is hereby revoked, and clauses (d), (e), (ƒ), (g), and (h) are lettered, respectively, (c), (d), (e), (ƒ), and (g). BENJ. HARRISON. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. EXECUTIVE ORDER. EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 25, 1891. It is hereby ordered, That the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office be closed on Saturday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers and sailors who fell in defense of the Union during the War of the Rebellion. To the People of the United States: BENJ. HARRISON. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D. C., July 6, 1891. The President, with a profound feeling of sorrow, announces the death of Hannibal Hamlin, at one time Vice-President of the United States, who died at Bangor, Me., on the evening of Saturday, July 4. Few men in this country have filled more important and more distinguished public positions than Mr. Hamlin, and in recognition of his many eminent and varied services and as an expression of the great respect and reverence which are felt for his memory it is ordered that the national flag be displayed at half-mast upon the public buildings of the United States on the day of his funeral. BENJ. HARRISON. By the President: WILLIAM F. WHARTON, Acting Secretary of State. AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 6, 1891. The civil-service ru.es are hereby amended as follows: GENERAL RULE I. In line I strike out the word "four" and insert in lieu thereof the word "five." Add at the end of the rule the following: 5. The classified Indian service. 38 GENERAL RULE III. Strike out paragraphs 1 and 2 of section 6 of General Rule III and insert in lieu thereof the following: So far as practicable and useful, competitive examinations shall be established in the classified civil service to test fitness for promotion, under such regulations as the Commission may make. Until such regulations have been applied to any part of the classified service promotions therein shall be made in the manner prescribed by the rule applicable thereto. DEPARTMENTAL RULE VI. sentence of section 6 and transfer the remaining Change the numbers of sections 7, 8, 9, and 10 to Strike out the first sentence to section 5. 6, 7, 8, and 9, respectively. CUSTOMS RULE III. sentence of section 5 and transfer the remaining Change the numbers of sections 6, 7, 8, and 9 to Strike out the first sentence to section 4. 5, 6, 7, and 8, respectively. POSTAL RULE III. sentence of section 5 and transfer the remaining Change the numbers of sections 6, 7, 8, and 9 to Strike out the first sentence to section 4. 5, 6, 7, and 8, respectively. RAILWAY MAIL RULE III. Strike out the first sentence of section 7 and transfer the remaining sentence to section 4. Change the numbers of sections 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 to 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, respectively. RAILWAY MAIL RULE II. Insert an additional clause to section 5, as follows: (f) Transfer clerks at junction points or stations where not more than two such clerks are employed. RAILWAY MAIL RULE IV. Insert an additional proviso at the end of clause (b) of section 2, as follows: Provided further, That on a line on which the service does not require the full time of a clerk, and one can be employed jointly with the railroad company, the appointment may be made without examination and certification, with the consent of the Commission, upon a statement of the facts by the General Superintendent; but no clerk so appointed shall be eligible for transfer or appointment to any other place in the service. In section 6, line 3, strike out the word "twenty" and insert in lieu thereof the word "ten." In section 7, line 6, strike out the word "thirty" and insert in lieu thereof the word "sixty;" in the same line strike out the word "to" and insert in lieu thereof the words "in periods of;" in line 7 strike out the words "who have been in the railway mail service." BENJ. HARRISON. CIVIL SERVICE.-INDIAN RULES. INDIAN RULE I. The classified Indian service shall include all the physicians, school superintendents, assistant superintendents, school-teachers, and matrons in that service, classified under the provisions of section 6 of the act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883. INDIAN RULE II. I. To test fitness for admission to the classified Indian service examinations of a practical character shall be provided on such subjects as the Commission may direct for physician, superintendent, assistant superintendent, teachers, and matrons. 2. The following age limitations shall apply to applicants for examination for the classified Indian service: For physician, not under 25 years of age nor over 45; for superintendent, hot under 25 nor over 50; for assistant superintendent and for teacher, not under 20 nor over 50; for matron, not under 25 nor over 55: Provided, That these limitations shall not apply to the wives of superintendents of Indian schools who apply for the position of matron, nor shall the maximum limitations apply to persons allowed preference under section 1754, Revised Statutes, by the Commission. 3. Blank forms of application shall be furnished by the Commission, and the date of reception and also of approval by the Commission of each application shall be noted on the application paper. INDIAN RULE III. 1. The papers of every examination shall be marked under regulations made by the Commission. Each competitor shall be graded on a scale of 100, according to the general average determined by the markings. 2. Immediately after the general average shall have been ascertained each competitor shall be notified that he has passed or has failed to pass. 3. A competitor who has failed to pass an examination may, with the consent of the Commission, be allowed reexamination at any time within six months from the date of failure without filing a new application; but if he be not allowed reexamination within six months he shall be required to file a new application before being again examined. 4. No eligible shall be allowed reexamination during the period of his eligibility unless he shall furnish satisfactory evidence to the Commission that at the time of his examination, because of illness or other good cause, he was incapable of doing himself justice; and his rating on such reexamination shall cancel and be a substitute for his rating on his former examination. 5. All competitors whose claim to preference under section 1754 of the Revised Statutes have been allowed by the Commission who attain a general average of 65 per cent or over, and all other competitors who attain a general average of 70 per cent or over, shall be eligible for appointment to the place for which they were examined. The names of all the competitors thus rendered eligible shall be entered in the order of grade on the proper register of eligibles. |