Executive Order 1176

by President of the United States

Civil Service Rule III, section 2, clause (c), is hereby amended to read as follows:

(c) the appointment of the wife of a competitive employee of an Indian school to any competitive position at that school.

The section as amended will read as follows:

2. Where, in its opinion, the conditions of good administration warrant, the Commission may give noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for (a), transfer, reinstatement, or promotion; (b), appointment of Indians in the Indian Service at large as superintendents, teachers, manual-training teachers, kindergartners, physicians, matrons, clerks, seamstresses, farmers, and industrial teachers, and in the Office of Indian Affairs in the messenger service, which examinations shall consist of the same tests of fitness as those applied to other persons seeking appointment through competitive examinations; (c), the appointment of the wife of a competitive employee of an Indian school to any competitive position at that school; (d), employment as inspector of safety appliances by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

March 12, 1910.