Executive Order 147
Appearance
Section 4 of Rule III is hereby amended by striking out all of the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
- The Post-Office Service shall include all officers and employees in free-delivery post-offices and in the rural free-delivery service, except persons employed merely as laborers or workmen and persons whose appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate: Provided, That until regulations for appointments of carriers in the rural free-delivery service shall become operative said carriers shall not be treated as classified hereunder: And provided further, That transfer shall not be made from the position of carrier in the rural free-delivery service to any other position in the classified service.
As amended the section will read:
- The Post-Office Service shall include all officers and employees in free-delivery post-offices and in the rural free-delivery service, except persons employed merely as laborers or workmen and persons whose appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate: Provided, That until regulations for appointments of carriers in the rural free-delivery service shall become operative said carriers shall not be treated as classified hereunder: And provided further, That transfer shall not be made from the position of carrier in the rural free-delivery service to any other position in the classified service. And whenever the free-delivery system shall be established in any post-office the Postmaster-General shall at once notify the Commission of such establishment, and the officers and employees of said office shall be included within the classified service from the date of such establishment; and whenever, by order of the Postmaster-General, any post-office shall be consolidated with and made a part of a free-delivery post-office, the Postmaster-General shall at once notify the Commission of such consolidation, and from the date of said order the employees of the office thus made a part of the free-delivery office whose names appear on the roster of the Post-Office Department shall be employees of said free-delivery office; and the person holding on the date of said order the position of postmaster at the office thus made a part of said free-delivery office may be made an employee in said free-delivery office, and may, at the time of classification, be assigned to any position therein and given any appropriate designation which the Postmaster-General may direct.
Approved.
White House,
- November 27, 1901.
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