Chapter XXIX: Section 5: of Internal-Revenue Rule IV is hereby amended by adding at the

end of the first paragraph thereof the following:

_And provided further_, That whenever an emergency shall arise
requiring that a vacant position in any internal-revenue district shall
be filled before a certificate can be issued by the Commission and an
appointment made thereto in the manner provided in these rules, such
position may be filled without regard to the provisions of these rules
by temporary appointment for a period not to exceed fifteen days, and
only for such period as may be required for the execution of the
necessary details of an appointment thereto in accordance with said
provisions; but no person shall receive such emergency appointment who
within the sixty days next previous thereto has been separated from a
position in said district to which he was temporarily appointed under
the provisions of this section.

The section as amended shall read as follows:

5. In the case of the occurrence of a vacancy in the classified service
of any internal-revenue collection district which the public interest
requires shall be immediately filled and there is no eligible entitled
to reinstatement under section 1, clause (_b_), of this rule
or remaining on the proper register, such vacancy in the class of
storekeeper, storekeeper and gauger, or clerk may be filled without
examination and certification by a temporary designation by the
collector of the district of some suitable person to perform the duties
of the position until a regular appointment can be made under the
provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of this rule: _Provided_, That
service under such temporary designation shall in no case continue
longer than six months, and shall expire by limitation at the end of
that time: _And provided further_, That no person shall serve
more than six months in any one year under such temporary designation,
the year limitation in regard to such designation to begin to run
on the date thereof: _And provided further_, That whenever
an emergency shall arise requiring that a vacant position in any
internal-revenue district shall be filled before a certificate can be
issued by the Commission and an appointment made thereto in the manner
provided in these rules, such position may be filled without regard to
the provisions of these rules by temporary appointment for a period not
to exceed fifteen days, and only for such period as may be required for
the execution of the necessary details of an appointment thereto in
accordance with said provisions; but no person shall receive such
emergency appointment who within the sixty days next previous thereto
has been separated from a position in said district to which he was
temporarily appointed under the provisions of this section.

Every such temporary designation, and also the discontinuance of the
same, shall be at once reported to the Commission.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 1896_.