278 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEI'AKTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



examiner or board of examiners hereinafter provided for, and its own 

 subordinates, and those in the public service, in respect to the execu- 

 tion of this act. 



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Act January 16, 1883, c 27, s. 2, 22 Stat. 40.3. 

 Olassification of clerks, etc., in the departments. 



Sec. 6. * * * That from time to time said Secretary [of the 

 Treasury], the Postmaster-General, and each of the heads of depart- 

 ments mentioned in the one hundred and fifty-eighth section or the 

 Revised Statutes, and each head of an office, shall, on the direction of 

 the President, and for facilitating the execution of this act, respec- 

 tively revise any then existing classification or arrangement of those 

 in their respective departments and offices, and shall, for the purposes 

 of the examination herein provided for, include in one or more of 

 such classes, so far as practicable, subordinate places, clerks, and 

 officers in the public service pertaining to their respective departments 

 not before classified for examination. 



Act January 16, 1883. c. 27, a 6, 22 Stat. 406. 



The departments mentioned in Rev. St. sec. 158, referred to in the above 

 section, are the Department of State, the Department of War, the Depart- 

 ment of the Treasury, the Department of Justice, the Post-Otfice Depart- 

 ment, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Interior. 

 Rev. St. sec. 158 is amended by jict February 9, 1889, c. 122, s. 1, set forth 

 on p. 9, ayite, to include the Department of Agriculture. 



Appointments and promotions to be made upon examinations. 



Sec. 7. That after the expiration of six months from the passage 

 of this act no officer or clerk shall be appointed. and*no person shall 

 be employed to enter or be promoted in either of the said classes now 

 existing, or that may be arranged hereunder pursuant to said rules, 

 until he has passed an examination, or is shown to be specially ex- 

 empted from such examination in conformity herewith. But nothing 

 herein contained shall ho construed to take from those honorably 

 discharged from the military or naval service any preferenre con- 

 ferred by the seventeen hundred and fifty-fourth section of the Re- 

 vised Statutes, nor to take from the President any authority not in- 

 consistent with this act conferred by the seventeen hundred and fifty- 

 third section of said statutes; nor shall any officer not in the executive 

 branch of the government, or any ]>erson merely employed as a laborer 

 or workman, be required to be classified liereunder; nor, imless by the 

 direction of the Senate, shall any person who has been nominated 

 for confirmation by the Senate be required to be classified or to pass 

 an examination. 



Act January 16, 1883, c. 27, s. 7, 22 Stat. 406. 

 Excessive use of intoxicants a bar to official position. 



Sec. 8. That no {person habitually using ii\toxicating beverages to 

 excess shall be appointed to. or retained in, any office, appointment, 

 or employment to which the provisions of this act are applicable. 



Act January 16. 1883. c. 27, s. 8. 22 Stat. 406. ,j, 



Restriction on appointments of members of one family. 



Sec. 9. That whenever there are already two or more members of a 

 family in the ])ublic service in the grades covered by this act, no 



