By the President:
FREDK. T. FRELINGHUYSEN,
_Secretary of State_.
In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution
and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the
Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883,
the following rules for the regulation and improvement of the executive
civil service are amended as stated below, and are hereby promulgated: