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Grover Cleveland: Rule VI of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by adding to the exceptions from examination in the departmental…

On the recordJanuary 26, 1897
Rule VI of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by adding to the exceptions from examination in the departmental service a new clause, to read as follows:(d) Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution, in charge of United States National Museum.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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Executive Order—Amendment of Civil Service Rules

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