[Footnote 18: Storekeepers shall be classed as clerks, and vacancies in
that class shall be filled by assignment.]
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., March 1, 1888_.
In the exercise of authority vested in the President by the seventeen
hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes to prescribe
such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service
of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof and
ascertain the fitness of each applicant in respect to age, health,
character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of the service into
which he seeks to enter, I hereby direct that the officers, clerks, and
other employees of the United States Civil Service Commission, now
authorized or that may hereafter be authorized by law, shall be arranged
in the following classes, viz:
Class A, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of
less than $1,000 per annum.
Class B, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of
$1,000 or more, but less than $1,200 per annum.
Class 1, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of
$1,200 or more, but less than $1,400 per annum.
Class 2, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of
$1,400 or more, but less than $1,600 per annum.
Class 3, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of
$1,600 or more, but less than $1,800 per annum.
Class 4, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of
$1,800 or more, but less than $2,000 per annum.
Class 5, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of
$2,000 or more per annum.
No person who is appointed to an office by the President by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, or by the President alone, and no
person who is to be employed merely as a laborer or workman or as a
watchman, shall be considered as within this classification.
_And it is ordered_, That the United States Civil Service Commission
thus classified, as provided by clause 2 of Departmental Rule I of the
civil-service rules approved February 2, 1888, and in force on and
after the date hereof, shall be considered a part of the classified
departmental service, and the rules applicable thereto shall be in force
therein.