04/20/1888
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"It is hereby ordered, That any vacancy in a consulate or commercial agency now or hereafter existing... shall be filled by a transfer or promotion from some other position under the Department of Stat..."
"Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended by striking out from the list of places excepted from examination in all the Departments 'bookbinders.'"
"Hereafter compositors and pressmen will be appointed by competitive examination."
"So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c), as provides for the appointment of compositors and pressmen by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked..."