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Grover Cleveland: No person may be transferred as herein authorized until the Commission shall have certified to the officer making the…

On the recordJanuary 3, 1889
No person may be transferred as herein authorized until the Commission shall have certified to the officer making the transfer requisition that the person whom it is proposed to transfer has passed an examination to test fitness for the place to which he is to be transferred.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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