Executive Order 158

by President of the United States

Rule IX of the Civil-Service Rules is hereby amended by omitting therefrom the final proviso, which proviso so omitted is in the words and figures following, to-wit:

And provided further, That any person dismissed from the service upon charges of delinquency or misconduct may be reinstated, subject to the other conditions of these rules, without regard to the one-year limit of this rule, upon the certificate of the proper appointing officer that he has thoroughly investigated the case and that the charges upon which the dismissal was based were not true.

Approved.

Theodore Roosevelt.

White House,

January 23, 1902.