Special Message
03/19/1888
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It is also ordered,That no person shall be admitted into any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service ru...
We can not view the pending conflict without considering...our inevitably close relations to it.
The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as follows.
No modification of the existing regulations shall be made without the approval of the Civil Service Commission.