FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 1895-1897. 1767 
SMITHSONIAN BUREAUS UNDER CIVIL SERVICE. 
June 18, 1896. 
Letter from the President of the United States, Grover Cleveland. 
Executive Mansion, 
Washington, June 18, 1896. 
S. P. Lanatry, Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 
Dear Srr: I inclose you a classification of the employees of the 
Smithsonian Institution, which is a copy of those signed by the other 
Executive Departments and bureaus. 
I wish you would insert the data and sign it, and notify the Civil 
Service Commission that you have’done so. I think it should be filed 
‘in your oflice. 
Yours, truly, 
GROVER CLEVELAND. 
Copy of notification sent to Civil Service Commission. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 
Washington, June 30, 1896. 
By direction of the President of the United States, and in accordance with the 
third clause of section 6 of the act entitled ‘‘ An act to regulate and improve the civil 
service of the United States,’”’ approved January 16, 1883: 
It is ordered, That the officers and employees of this Institution included within 
the provisions of the civil-service rules be, and they are hereby, arranged in the 
following classes: 
Class A, all persons receiving an annual salary of less than $720, or a compensa- 
tion at the rate of less than $720 per annum. 
Class B, all persons receiving an annual salary of $720 or more, or a compensa- 
tion at the rate of $720 or more, but less than $840 per annum. 
Class ©, all persons receiving an annual salary of $840 or more, or a compensation 
at the rate of $840 or more, but less than $900 per annum. 
Class D, all persons receiving an annual salary of $900 or more, ora compensation 
at the rate of $900 or more, but less than $1,000 per annum. 
Class E, -all persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or more, or a compensa- 
tion at the rate of $1,000 or more, but less than $1,200 per annum. 
Class 1, all persons receiving an annual salary of $1,200 or more, or a compensa- 
tion at the rate of $1,200 or more, but less than $1,400 per annum. 
Class 2, all persons receiving an annual salary of $1,400 or more, or a compensa- 
tion at the rate of $1,400 or more, but/less than $1,600 per annum. 
Class 3, all persons receiving an annual salary of $1,600 or more, or a compensa- 
tion at the rate of $1,600 or more, but less than $1,80U per annum. 
Class 4, all persons receiving an annual salary of $1,800 or more, or a compensa- 
tion at the rate of $1,800 or more, but less than $2,000 per annum. : 
Class 5, all persons receiving an annual salary of $2,000 or more, or a compensa- 
tion at the rate of $2,000 or more, but less than $2,500 per annum. 
Class 6, all persons receiving an annual salary of $2,500 or more, or a compensa- 
tion at the rate of $2,500 or more per annum. 
Jt is provided, That this classification shall not include persons appointed to an 
office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, nor persons employed as 
mere laborers or workmen; but all positions whose occupants are designated as 
laborers or workmen, and who were, prior to May 6, 1896, and are now regularly 
