I think the expediency and propriety of disposing of these lands for the purposes specified should in each case be determined by the Secretary of the Interior.

Exceptions from examination in the classified postal service are hereby made as follows: (a) Assistant postmaster, or the chief assistant to the postmaster, by whatever designation known.

Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section, to be numbered 9.

I have no information concerning cruelties committed upon Armenians in Turkey or upon persons because of their being Christians.

I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State on the matter, with accompanying copies of correspondence.

Information from British ambassador indicates far more loss of lives in Armenia, attended with atrocities, than stated in my telegram of 28th.

I transmit herewith the correspondence indicated.

I do declare that the said lands granted for right of way and station purposes... are forfeited to the United States and will be subject to entry under the homestead laws.

Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended by striking out the whole of the paragraph in section 3, Department of the Interior, relating to the Geological Survey and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

Railway Mail Rule II is hereby amended as follows: In section 5 strike out clauses (e) and (f).

Railway Mail Rule IV is hereby amended as follows: In the last proviso of clause (b) of section 2, in line 2 of that proviso, after the word 'line,' insert the words 'or at a transfer station or on a steamboat;' in the same line strike out…

and of pomology;

Customs Rule II is hereby amended as follows: In section 6, line 1, strike out the word 'hereby,' and after the word 'made,' at the end of the line, insert the words 'by any customs rule;' in line 2, after the word 'shall,' strike out the…

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places therein excepted from examination in the Department of the Treasury the following: In the Bureau of Statistics: One expert in mechanical designs and in diagramming…

Vacancies in places authorized to be filled by noncompetitive examination may be filled without examination for a period not exceeding thirty days.

Customs Rule VIII is hereby amended as follows: In clause (a), line 2, after the word 'by,' insert the word 'any,' and in the same line strike out 'II, clause 5.'

The heads of the several Executive Departments are hereby directed to amend their several classifications so as to include among the employees classified thereunder messengers, assistant messengers, and watchmen.

Customs Rule I is hereby amended as follows: In section 2, line 2, strike out the word 'fifty' and insert in lieu thereof the word 'twenty.'