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On the recordMay 4, 1892
no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an appropriate examination under the United States Civil Service Commission and his or her eligibility has been certified to by said Commission
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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