Evaluated strictly through the U.S. Constitution (Articles I–VII) & Amendments from an Early Statesman's prism
General Order No. 406. NAVY DEPARTMENT The President of the United States announces the death of ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes in the following proclamation (order): It is hereby directed, in pursuance of the instructions of the President, that on the day of the funeral, where...
Benjamin Harrison GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 4 HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE I. The following proclamation (order) has been received from the President: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C . January 18, 1893. To the People of the United States: The death of Rutherford B. Hayes, who w...
Benjamin Harrison To the People of the United States: The death of Rutherford B. Hayes, who was President of the United States from March 4, 1877, to March 4, 1881, at his home in Fremont, Ohio, at 11 p.m. yesterday, is an event the announcement of which will be received with very general and very...
Benjamin Harrison Section 2 of Postal Rule I is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The classification of the postal service made by the Postmaster-General under section 6 of the act of January 16, 1883, is hereby extended to all free-delivery post-offices; and hereafter whenever any post-off...
Benjamin Harrison DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, November 26, 1892. The PRESIDENT: The treaty of June 9, 1855 (12 Stats., 954), provides for a reservation of a tract of land not exceeding in quantity one township of 6 miles square for the Yakima Indians in the then Territory of Washington...
Benjamin Harrison EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 21, 1892. It is hereby ordered that the following tracts of land in the State of Minnesota, viz: Fractional section 33 in township 152 north, of range 32 west, and fractional sections 4, 9, 16, 17, 19, and 20, and section 21 in township 151 north, of r...
Benjamin Harrison Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., November 19, 1892. It is hereby ordered that the Executive order of May 17, 1884, by President Chester A. Arthur, withdrawing from sale and settlement and setting apart as a reservation for Indian purposes certain lands in the Territories of U...
Benjamin Harrison Departmental Rule X, Customs Rule VII, Postal Rule VII, and Indian Rule VII are hereby amended by inserting in the proviso of each of said rules, after the word "there from," the words "or the widow of any such person," and after the word "he" the words "or she;" so that as amend...
Benjamin Harrison In order that the members of the Grand Army of the Republic employed in the public service in the city of Washington may have the opportunity of joining in the parade arranged for Tuesday, the 20th of September instant, and that all others may unite with the citizens of the Distr...
Benjamin Harrison Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among the places excepted from examination therein the following: In the Commission of Fish and Fisheries: Ichthyologist and editor, one scientific assistant, captains, officers, ships writers and crews on vessels...
Benjamin Harrison Executive orders heretofore issued declaring the places subject to noncompetitive examination under clause (d) of section 2 of General Rule III are hereby amended so as to include among said places the following: In the Commission of Fish and Fisheries: Fish culturists and machin...
Benjamin Harrison In the exercise of the authority vested in the President by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes-- It is ordered, That the office of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries be, and the same is hereby, classified as a part of the classif...
Benjamin Harrison Indian Rule VI is hereby amended by inserting after the word "appointment" the following: "from one agency to another;" so that as amended the rule will read: Subject to the conditions stated in Rule IV, transfers may be made after absolute appointment from one agency to another,...
Benjamin Harrison Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended by adding at the end of paragraph 10 the following: "and elevator conductors;" so that as amended the paragraph will read: In all the Departments: Bookbinders and elevator conductors. BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION The PRESIDENT. SIR: We have the honor to recommend that Executive orders heretofore issued designating the places to be filled by noncompetitive examination under clause (d) of section 2 of General Rule III be amended so as to include among ...
Benjamin Harrison SIR:* In my message to the first session of the Fifty-first Congress I said: I have suggested to the heads of the Executive Departments that they consider whether a record might not be kept in each bureau of all those elements that are covered by the terms "faithfulness" and "eff...
Benjamin Harrison Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended so as to include among the places excepted from examination the following: In the Department of the Treasury, in the Bureau of Statistics: One confidential clerk to the Chief of the Bureau. BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison EXECUTIVE MANSION, October 16, 1891. It is hereby ordered that the limits of the Hoopa Valley Reservation in the state of California, a reservation duly set apart for Indian purposes, as one of the Indian reservations authorized to be set apart, in said State, by Act of Congress ...
Benjamin Harrison General Rule III, clause 6, is hereby amended by striking out the words "under such regulations as the Commission may make" and substituting therefor the following: "under regulations to be approved by the President;" so that as amended the clause will read as follows: So far as ...
Benjamin Harrison 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,...
Benjamin Harrison The civil-service rules are hereby amended as follows: GENERAL RULE II. 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. GENERAL RULE III. Strike out paragraphs 1 and 2 of ...
Benjamin Harrison To the People of the United States: 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 imp...
Benjamin Harrison 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 ...
Benjamin Harrison DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Washington, April 13, 1891. 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-- I...
Benjamin Harrison Clause (c) of section 2 of General Rule III is hereby revoked, and clauses (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h) are lettered, respectively, (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g). BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison 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
Benjamin Harrison 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 superintendent of free delivery. BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison 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
Benjamin Harrison In accordance with an act of Congress approved September 27, 1890, the following limits to the punishment of enlisted men, together with the accompanying regulations, are established for the government in time of peace of all courts-martial, and will take effect thirty days after...
Benjamin Harrison 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 the Treasury, in the Coast and Geodetic Survey: Clerk to act as confidential clerk and cashier to the disbursing officer. In t...
Benjamin Harrison 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: Private secretary to the chief of the division of statistics. BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison General Order NAVY DEPARTMENT The following Executive order, announcing the death of General William Tecumseh Sherman, is published for the information of the Navy and the Marine Corps: In accordance with the order of the President, the Navy Department will be closed and all busi...
Benjamin Harrison GENERAL ORDERS NO. 16. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, February 14, 1891. 1. The following order of the War Department is published to the Army: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington , February 14, 1891 . The death of General Sherman is hereby announced in t...
Benjamin Harrison To the Heads of the Executive Departments: In token of respect to the memory of Admiral David D. Porter, who died this morning, the President directs that the national flag be displayed at half-mast upon all public buildings throughout the United States until after his funeral sh...
Benjamin Harrison DEPARTMENT OF STATE SIR:* The Hon. William Windom, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, died suddenly last night, in the city of New York, at the hour of eleven minutes past 10 o'clock, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. Thus has passed away a man of pure life, an of...
Benjamin Harrison Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the exceptions from examination therein declared the following: In the Department of Agriculture, in the office of the Secretary, division of illustration and engraving: One artist. BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison The death of George Bancroft, which occurred in the city of Washington on Saturday, January 17, at 3:40 o'clock p.m., removes from among the living one of the most distinguished Americans. As an expression of the public loss and sorrow the flags of all the Executive Departments a...
Benjamin Harrison Section 7 of Railway Mail Rule IV is hereby amended by inserting in line 7, after the word "days," the following: "or until the emergency ceases." BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination therein the following: In the Post-Office Department, office of the Postmaster-General: Stenographer as confidential clerk to the chief post-office inspector. BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison Departmental Rule VIII, section I, clause (b), is hereby amended by inserting after the word "transacted" the following: "and from the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury;" and after the word "Department" where it last occurs the following: "or to said office;" so that as ame...
Benjamin Harrison Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination in the Department of Agriculture the following: Wood engravers. BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison The death of John C. Fremont, a major-general on the retired list of the Army of the United States, is an event calling for some appropriate expression of the national sorrow and of a grateful appreciation of his public services. His career was full of adventurous and useful disc...
Benjamin Harrison UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION The PRESIDENT. SIR: This Commission has the honor to recommend that Special Departmental Rule No. I be amended by adding to the exceptions from examination therein declared the following: "In the Department of the Treasury, in the life-savin...
Benjamin Harrison It is hereby ordered, That the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office be closed on Friday, 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 Wa...
Benjamin Harrison To the Attorney-General: I have had frequent occasion during the last six months to confer with you in reference to the obstructions offered in the counties of Leon, Gadsden, Madison, and Jefferson, in the State of Florida, to the execution of the process of the courts of the Uni...
Benjamin Harrison Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section, to be numbered 7: 7. In case of temporary absence, from sickness or other unavoidable cause, of clerks, copyists, or employees of other grades for which examinations are held, there may be certified ...
Benjamin Harrison That part of Special Departmental Rule No. I relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey, as printed on page 66 of the Fifth Annual Report of the Commission, is hereby amended by striking out in line 3, after the word "to," the words "general office assistant," and inserting in lie...
Benjamin Harrison Special Customs Rule No. I is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: In the customs district of New York: Detectives employed exclusively as such. Approved, March 10, 1890. BENJ. HARRISON.
Benjamin Harrison Section I of Postal Rule II is hereby amended by adding to the subjects of the clerk examination the following: "Reading addresses and physical tests;" and to the subjects of carrier examination the following: "Reading addresses." Approved, January 29, 1890. BENJ. HARRISON.
Benjamin Harrison Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended so as to include among the exceptions from examination in the Department of Agriculture the following: Scientific or professional experts to be employed in investigations specially authorized by Congress, but not to include any pe...
Benjamin Harrison Special Customs Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination at the port of New York the following: Office of the General Appraiser: Chief clerk and law clerk. Approved, November 18, 1889. BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison Section 2 of Railway Mail Rule IV is hereby amended by substituting for clause (b) of said section the following: (b) The Commission shall certify from the register of the State or Territory in which the vacancy exists the names of the three eligibles thereon having the highest a...
Benjamin Harrison Section 2 of Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing the following: "plate cleaners, transferrers, hardeners, provers, pressmen, machinists, plumbers, carpenters, and blacksmiths."...
Benjamin Harrison Clause 2 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by including among the places excepted from examination in the office of the Supervising Architect the following: "engineers and draftsmen of classes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, not exceeding ten in all: Provided , That these t...
Benjamin Harrison Clause 5 of Railway Mail Rule II is hereby amended by adding thereto the following clauses: (d) Clerks employed exclusively as porters in handling mail matter in bulk, in sacks, or pouches, and not otherwise. (e) Clerks employed exclusively on steamboats. Approved: BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison Section 5 of Railway Mail Rule II is hereby amended by adding an additional clause, as follows: (c) Printers, employed as such. Approved: BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison Clause (h) of section 2 of General Rule III is hereby amended by adding to that clause, at the end thereof, the following: "or for temporary appointment for not exceeding thirty days in any part of the classified service." Approved: BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison Departmental Rule X, Customs Rule VII, Postal Rule VII, and Railway Mail Rule VI are hereby amended by adding to each of said rules, at the end thereof, the following: Provided , That certification may be made, subject to the other conditions of this rule, for the reinstatement o...
Benjamin Harrison Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended as follows: In section 2, at the end of paragraph 1, insert the following: "foremen of laborers, skilled laborers, elevator conductors, foreman of cabinet shop, and cabinetmakers." So that as amended so much of section 2 as relate...
Benjamin Harrison In November, 1862, President Lincoln quoted the words of Washington to sustain his own views, and announced in a general order that-- The president, Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the m...
Benjamin Harrison It is hereby ordered, That the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office be closed on Thursday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers who fell during the rebellion. BENJ. HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison Departmental Rule VIII is hereby amended as follows: At the end of section I insert an additional clause, as follows: (d) From the office of the President of the United States, after two years' continuous service therein immediately preceding the transfer, to any place in the cla...
Benjamin Harrison EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 6, 1889. It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands, situated and lying in the State of California, viz: Township 10 south, range 4 east, and sections 3 and 4, township 11 south, range 4 east of the San Bernardino meridian, except so much of th...
Benjamin Harrison Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by including among the places excepted from examination thereunder in section 2 the following: "custodian of dies, rolls, and plates at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, two subcustodians, keeper of the vault, and distributer ...
Benjamin Harrison REGULATIONS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF ARMS, ORDNANCE STORES, QUARTERMASTER'S STORES, AND CAMP EQUIPAGE TO THE TERRITORIES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, PRESCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONFORMITY WITH THE SECOND SECTION OF THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIO...
Benjamin Harrison Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended by including among the places excepted from examination thereunder in section 2 the following: "and inspector of furniture." As amended so much of that section as relates to the office of Secretary of the Treasury will read as fol...
Benjamin Harrison Whereas civil-service rules for the railway mail service were approved January 4, 1889, to go into effect March 15, 1889; and Whereas it is represented to me by the Civil Service Commission in a communication of this date that it will be impossible to complete arrangements for pu...
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