EXCEPTING FROM EXAMINATION ONE PRIVATE SECRETARY OR CONFIDENTIAL CLERK TO EACH MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION COMMISSION

May 8, 1929.

Schedule A of positions excepted from the requirement of examination under the civil service rules is hereby amended by the addition of a new subdivision to be numbered XX, said amendment being prepared and recommended by the Civil Service Commission in compliance with the official request of the chairman of the United States Employees' Compensation Commission:

XX. UNITED STATES EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION.-1. One private secretary or confidential clerk to each member of the United States Employees' Compensation Commission.

EXCEPTING FROM EXAMINATION AGENTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EMPLOYED IN METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH AIRWAYS

May 21, 1929.

Schedule A, Subdivision IX, Department of Agriculture, section 1, is amended by the addition of a paragraph (h), to read as follows:

(h) Agents employed to take and transmit meteorological observations in connection with airways, whose duties require only a part of their time, and whose compensation does not exceed $100 per month. Continuance of this exception beyond a period of three years from the date of its adoption shall be dependent upon the joint agreement of the Department of Agriculture and the Civil Service Commission.

The last paragraph of section 1, Subdivision IX, is amended to read as follows:

Prior consent of the commission must be obtained for the appointment of agent under clause (d) above, and in making appointments under clauses (a), (b), (c), (f), and (h), a full report shall be submitted immediately by the department to the commission, setting forth the name, designation, and compensation of the appointee, and a statement of the duties to which he is to be assigned, and of his qualifications for such duties, in such detail as to indicate clearly that the appointment is properly made under one of the above clauses. The same procedure shall be followed in the case of the assignment of any agent to duties of a different, character.

SUBSTITUTION OF $540 PER ANNUM IN LIEU OF $480 PER ANNUM AS AGGREGATE COMPENSATION

May 23, 1929.

Schedule A, Subdivision I, paragraph 6, of the civil-service rules, is hereby amended by striking out $480 and inserting $540 in lieu thereof. As amended, the paragraph will read as follows:

6. Any person receiv.ng for his personal salary compensation aggregating not more than $540 per annum whose duties require only a portion of his time, or whose services are needed for very brief periods at intervals, provided that employment under this provision shall not be for job work such as contemplated in section 4 of Rule VIII. The name of the employee, designation, duties, rate of pay, and place of employment shall be shown in the periodical reports of changes; and in addition, when payment is not at a per annum rate, the total service rendered and the distribution of each service during the year shall be shown in the report of changes at the end of each year or when the employee is separated from the service.

REVOKING PARAGRAPH I, SUBDIVISION II, OF SCHEDULE A, RELATIVE TO EXEMPTION FROM EXAMINATION OF OFFICERS TO AID IN IMPORTANT DRAFTING WORK UNDER THE STATE DEPARTMENT

August 8, 1929.

Paragraph 1, Subdivision II, of Schedule A, which excepts from the requirement of examination in the State Department "Officers to aid in important drafting work" is hereby revoked.

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The following-named persons now holding excepted positions as officers to aid in important drafting work but whose duties are in fact of a classified competitive character, are hereby given a classified competitive status: William H. Beck; Harry R. Young; Carlton B. Savage; Emerson B. Christ.e; Samuel W. Boggs; Joseph V. Fuller; Yale O. Millington; Hugh S. Cumming, jr.; Eliot B. Coulter; Edward C. Wynne.

Schedule B of positions which may be filled upon noncompetitive examination under the civil-service rules, is hereby amended by the addition of a new subdivision as follows:

X. STATE DEPARTMENT.-1. Specialists in foreign relations, political, economic, and financial, whose proposed compensation is $3,200 or more, and whose training and experience along the lines of their proposed duties meet the standard min mum qualifications set up in open competitive examinations for positions in the professional service for corresponding grades. The Civil Service Commission concurs with the Department of State in recommending these amendments.

ORDERS AMENDING SCHEDULE B

CERTAIN SPECIALISTS IN FOREIGN RELATIONS, STATE DEPARTMENT, MADE SUBJECT TO NONCOMPETITIVE EXAMINATION

August 8, 1929.

Paragraph 1, Subdivision II, of Schedule A, which excepts from the requirement of examination in the State Department "Officers to aid in important drafting work" is hereby revoked.

The following-named persons now holding excepted positions as officers to aid in important drafting work but whose duties are in fact of a classified competitive character, are hereby given a classified competitive status: William H. Beck; Harry R. Young; Carlton B. Savage; Emerson B. Christie; Samuel W. Boggs; Joseph V. Fuller; Yale O. Millington; Hugh S. Cumming, jr.; Eliot B. Coulter; Edward C. Wynne.

Schedule B of positions which may be filled upon noncompetitive examination under the civil service rules is hereby amended by the addition of a new subdivision as follows:

X. STATE DEPARTMENT.—1. Specialists in foreign relations, political, economic, and financial, whose proposed compensation is $3,200 or more, and whose tra.ning and experience along the lines of their proposed duties meet the standard minimum qualifications set up in open competitive examinations for positions in the professional service for corresponding grades.

The Civil Service Commission concurs with the Department of State in recommending these amendments.

CERTAIN POSITIONS OF A PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, OR SUPERVISORY NATURE UNDER THE NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MADE SUBJECT TO NONCOMPETITIVE EXAMINATION

August 8, 1929.

Schedule B of the civil service rules, listing positions which may be filled upon noncompetitive examination, is hereby amended by the addition of a new subdivision and paragraph, as follows:

XI. NAVY DEPARTMENT.—1. Such positions of a professional, scientific, technical, or supervisory nature under the Naval Establishment in the Philippine Islands, as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of the Navy and the Civil Service Commission.

This order is jointly recommended by the Navy Department and the Civil Service Commission.

ORDER RELATING TO THE INDIAN FIELD SERVICE

MAKING THE EXECUTIVE ORDER OF AUGUST 14, 1928, EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 1929

October 22, 1928.

Executive Order No. 4948, classifying certain positions in the Indian field service, Interior Department, promulgated August 14, 1928, is hereby amended so as to become effective April 1, 1929.

ORDER RELATING TO THE EXECUTIVE ORDER OF MAY 21, 1921 REVOCATION OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER OF MAY 21, 1921, AND CLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES SERVING UNDER SUCH AUTHORIZATION

December 8, 1928.

Executive Order No. 3471, issued May 21, 1921, authorizing the Civil Service Commission to extend for single periods of a year or less the employments of qualified persons engaged on activities growing out of the World War which were temporary and diminishing in nature, is hereby revoked.

Employees now in the service whose retention has been authorized under the order of May 21, 1921, are hereby covered into the classified service.

This order is recommended by the War Department and concurred in by the Civil Service Commission.

ORDER RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION SERVICE

CONTINUANCE UNDER TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT OF AGENTS, INSPECTORS, AND INVESTIGATORS ENTITLED TO MILITARY PREFERENCE UNTIL COMPLETION OF RATINGS IN EXAMINATION CLOSING NOVEMBER 20, 1928

December 21, 1928.

Until the ratings have been completed of the civil-service examination closing November 20, 1928, for positions of prohibition agent, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to continue under temporary appointment those prohibition agents, inspectors, and investigators entitled to military preference (1) whose applications for such examination have been accepted by the Civil Service Commission; and (2) who have been employed with clear records for at least two years in the prohibition service.

For the purposes of this order, reinstatement may be made, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, of any preference employee herein described who was dropped from the prohbition service, without charges, subsequent to August 16, 1928.

ORDER RELATING TO THE POSITION OF PRESS HELPER, BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING

POSITION OF PRESS HELPER WITH INCUMBENTS, BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING, BROUGHT INTO THE COMPETITIVE CLASSIFIED SERVICE

February 15, 1929.

The position of press helper in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is hereby brought with the present incumbents into the competitive classified service. Vacancies in this position hereafter will be filled in accordance with the rules governing the classified civil service.

This order is recommended by the Treasury Department and the Civil Service Commission.

ORDER RELATING TO THE LABOR REGULATIONS AMENDMENT OF REGULATION VIII (REINSTATEMENT), RELATIVE TO TIME LIMIT ON ELIGIBILITY FOR REINSTATEMENT

May 13, 1929.

The regulations for the appointment of unclassified laborers are hereby amended so that Regulation VIII, Reinstatement, shall read as follows:

REGULATION VIII. REINSTATEMENT.-A person separated without delinquency or misconduct from an unclassified position may be reinstated to a similar position under any department or independent establishment subject to physical examination and to the following limitations:

(a) Unless otherwise provided hereinafter, an unclassified laborer may be reinstated only upon certificate of the commission and upon requisition made within one year from the date of separation: Provided, That the commission may authorize waiver of the 1-year limit herein prescribed in cases when in its opinion the circumstances are unusual, urgent, or in

the interest of the public service, under the following time limitations : Two years where service has been two years but less than three years; three years where service has been three years but less than four years; four years where service has been four years but less than five years; and five years where service has been five years or more.

(b) A person honorably released from the active military or naval service of the United States after service in the Civil War, or the war with Spain, or the war with Germany, or his widow, or an Army nurse of any of said wars, or the wife of an honorably released totally disabled veteran of any of such wars may be reinstated within five years from the date of separation from the unclassified position: Provided, That the commission may authorize such reinstatement without time limit when in its opinion the interests of the public service require such action. (c) A person separated from an unclassified position in the field service may be reemployed in the same office within one year without certificate. Old paragraph (c) of Regulation VIII is hereby revoked, its provisions having been broadened and included in paragraph (b).

Paragraph (d) of Regulation VIII is relettered (c), and appears above.

ORDER GOVERNING HOURS OF LABOR

CLOSING OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1928

December 14, 1928.

It is hereby ordered that the several executive departments and independent Government establishments in the District of Columbia, including the Government Printing Office and the navy yard and stations, be closed on Monday, December 24, 1928, and all clerks and other employees in the Federal service in the District of Columbia, except those who may for special public reasons be excepted from the provisions of this order, or those whose absence from duty would be inconsistent with the provisions of existing law, are hereby excused from duty on that day.

This order is not to be deemed as establishing a precedent.

ORDERS RELATING TO EXAMINATION FOR PRESIDENTIAL POST OFFICES

January 5, 1929.

WAIVER OF EXAMINATION REQUIREMENT

The Executive order of June 22, 1928, amending previous Executive orders requiring candidates for presidential postmasterships to pass a civil-service examination, is hereby waived so as to permit the nomination of Dr. Edward V. Sheely as postmaster at Memphis, Tenn., without examination.

January 15, 1929.

The Executive order of June 22, 1928, amending previous Executive orders requiring candidates for appointment to presidential postmasterships to pass a civil-service examination, is hereby waived to permit the nomination of Ward M. Parker as postmaster at Venice, Fla., without examination.

This order is issued upon the recommendation of the Postmaster General, The Civil Service Commission reports that, as a result of three examinations announced for filling this position, only one eligible has been secured and that further examinations would probably not result in securing enough eligibles for a complete certification of three names to the Postmaster General.

REDUCTION OF MAXIMUM AGE LIMIT TO 65 YEARS, AND PROVISION RELATIVE TO EXAMINATION OF PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN CONTINUOUSLY IN THE POSTAL SERVICE FOR TWO YEARS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING

May 1, 1929.

When a vacancy exists or occurs in the position of postmaster of an office of the first, second, or third class, if such vacancy is not filled by nomination of some qualified person within the competitive classified civil service, the Postmaster General shall certify the fact to the Civil Service Commission, which

shall forthwith hold an open competitive examination to test the fitness of applicants to fill such vacancy, and when such examination has been held and the papers submitted therewith have been rated, the commission shall furnish a certificate of not less than three eligibles, if the same can be obtained, to the Postmaster General, who shall submit to the President the name of one of the highest three eligibles for appointment to fill such vacancy: Provided, That the Postmaster General may reject the name of any person or persons so certified if he shall find that by reason of character or residence such person or persons shall have become disqualified after said examination, in which event he may request said commission to complete the certificate of three names: Provided, That no person who has passed his sixty-fifth birthday at the date for close of receipt of applications for such examination shall be permitted to take the same unless he has been continuously in the Postal Service for two years immediately preceding such date: And provided further, That no person shall be examined for postmaster who has not actually resided within the delivery of the office for which application is made for two years next preceding such date: And provided further, That at the expiration of the term of any postmaster, or anticipating such expiration, the Postmaster General may, in his discretion, request the Civil Service Commission to hold an examination, or he may submit the name of such postmaster to the President for renomination without examination.

If, pursuant to this order, it is desired to submit to the President for nomination the name of a person in the competitive classified service, such person must first be found by the Civil Service Commission to possess the requisite qualifications.

No person who has passed his 65th birthday shall be appointed acting postmaster in an office of the first, second, and third class unless he is already in the Postal Service.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS EXCEPTING PERSONS NAMED FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE RULES

The following statement gives (1) date of Executive order; (2) name of person; (3) nature of waiver; (4) action allowed; (5) basis; (6) by whom recommended (where the commission concurred it is so stated):

July 3, 1928. Mrs. Bessie L. Dudley; time limit on eligibility for reinstatement waived; appointment authorized as junior clerk in the classified service; daughter of former officer of the Coast Guard Service and widow with family of five children; employed from May 16, 1925, to March 8, 1926, in the Treasury Department, Coast Guard Service; the Department of Agriculture proposed to reinstate her to a temporary vacancy in that department and afford her opportunity to seek permanent employment elsewhere.

July 3, 1928. Mrs. Letitia E. Stewart; time limit on eligibility for reinstatement waived; appointment authorized to a clerical position in the classified service; widow of James M. Stewart, who at the time of his death February 13, 1928, had a record of more than 28 years' Government service; she served in the War Department for approximately 3 years and 10 months and lacked less than two months' service of being eligible for reinstatement under the rules; recommended by the Secretary of War.

July 6, 1928. Charles E. Margerum; time limit on eligibility for reinstatement waived; appointed material engineer in the Naval Gun Factory, navy yard, Washington, D. C.; was employed in field service of the Navy Department from August 16, 1917, until November 18, 1922; education, training, and experience qualified him for the duties of the position; recommended by the Secretary of the Navy.

July 6, 1928, Harry M. Vogel; examination waived; appointment authorized to a subclerical or an unclassified position under the Office of the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital; had been serving as an elevator conductor for approximately 20 years in a position outside the Government service; it was proposed to appoint him to the position of laborer at the Lincoln Memorial; recommended by the Acting Director Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital.

July 13, 1928. Mrs. Teresa C. Suit; examination waived; appointed bindery operative, Government Printing Office; widow of Ralph M. Suit, who was employed in the Government Printing Office from October 12, 1916, to December 23, 1927; had four small children and was without income for their support; recommended by the Public Printer.