Executive Order 191

by President of the United States

White House, October 4, 1902.

Special Rule.

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the executive civil service is hereby promulgated:

In the interest of economy and efficiency of the service, the engineer in charge of the construction of the new Government Printing Office building may retain his present force, or so much of it as may be necessary, during the continuance of the work at the War College and Washington Barracks. The authority herein granted shall lapse upon the completion of said work, and all vacancies in the force engaged upon the printing office and upon the other work shall be filled hereafter in accordance with civil-service rules.

Approved, October 4, 1902.

T. Roosevelt.