Fourth Annual Message (second term)
12/06/1896
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The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as follows.
I have not approved the bill.
No modification of the existing regulations shall be made without the approval of the Civil Service Commission.
The bond directed to be given by this bill would afford the Government no protection, since it only provides against rep...