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Grover Cleveland: So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c), as provides for the…

On the recordDecember 1, 1895
So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c), as provides for the appointment of special agents in the Department of Labor by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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Executive Order—Amendment of Civil Service Rules

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