1768 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
assigned to work of the same grade as that performed by classified employees, shall 
be included within this classification. Hereafter no person who is appointed as a 
laborer or workman without* examination under the civil-service rules shall be 
assigned to work of the same grade as that performed by classified employees. 
It is also ordered, That no person shall be admitted into any place not excepted 
from examination by the civil-service rules, in any of the classes above designated, 
until he shall have passed an appropriate examination prepared by the United States 
Civil Service Commission and his eligibility has been certified to this Institution by 
said Commission. 
G. Brown Goope, Acting Secretary. 
[In accordance with this, the employees of the National Museum, 
Zoological Park, International Exchanges, Bureau of Ethnology, and 
Astrophysical Observatory were on June 30, 1896, made subject to 
the civil-service rules]. : 
December 22, 1896—House. 
A speech by Mr. Marriorr Brostus on the civil service of the 
United States contained these items: 
The classified executive civil service. 
Smithsonian Institution: Employees. 
The United States National Museum... ...-...-2..5.-.20252 255. = eee 168 
National Zoolopicall Park’ “0S o..00- 1). 2 Dae ae ee ee 20 
Bareau of American Ethnology... > .. 002222 2.2 2e os 2 20 
Astrophysical Observatory .2.-.0c2-- 2 (ose oe eae de ee 6 
Burean ‘of International Exchanges \.. 22/2 oe coe ae ee secae ee eee 13 
TOtall soho a. ou eee Fee ece ea Ss ane as aoe eee ea eee 227 
Under clause C—any person employed in a foreign country under the State Depart- 
ment or temporarily employed in a confidential capacity in a foreign Conny aa 
following positions were excluded from classification: 
Employees. 
The Smithsonian Institution foreion. agents. 222225 12252 24s Ses eee eee piling 
(Dr. Felix Fligel, Leipsic. William Wesley, London.) 
Norre.—June 18, 1896. The President of the United States directed the application 
of the civil-service rules from July 1, 1896, to all persons in the bureaus under the 
Institution whose salaries are paid out of Government appropriations. 
Unclassified laborers or workmen. 
Employees. 
Smithsonian Instiiggon ......- ...%4octelse- teense seb senee ae eae ee 63 
Executive civil service of the United States classified by compensation. 
Smithsonian Institution. 
Tess than $7200 0u:.. 222. Lc ee Ae ee ee eee 109 
- $720; but Jess than’ $840 _.. sees ie Sees 22h. ee ee eee 23 
$840} ‘butiless than'$900 ....4. 52.0220. bee ee Be ee ee ee eee 2 
$900; but. less than! $1/000: . Gp. Silos Bae Se a ee ee eee 25 
S000 Muttless than '$1; 200222 KPC Ua. ee eee Oe eee 10 
$1, 2007but less than’ $1; 400... 22 SU ae ee ee eee 21 
$1,400 Mout}léss thanv$1;6002 2 22 Ae SR eh Oh SEE ee eee 10 
$1,600, but less than $1,800... -- Dd dye pe) Tes Sa ee 3 
$1,800, but less. than $2;000-- 20/2 220.22 eceseb 2... Ssh oo ee Sea 7 
