May 31, 1890
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-saving service: Topographer and hydrographer."
We have the honor to be, your obedient servants,
CHAS. LYMAN,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
HUGH S. THOMPSON,
United States Civil Service Commissioners.
Approved, June 3, 1890.
BENJ HARRISON
Benjamin Harrison, Executive Order—Amendments of Civil Service Rules Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/205294