Executive Order 199

by President of the United States

White House, January 19, 1903.

In the exercise of power vested in the President by the Constitution and of authority given to him by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, Rule XIII of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by adding at the end of the proviso thereof the following:

, and laborers or workmen who, in connection with their usual duties, are to perform work of the grade performed by classified employees, shall be appointed upon certification by the Commission from appropriate registers of eligibles, in the manner provided by these rules.

As amended the proviso will read:

Provided, That this classification shall not include persons appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, nor persons employed as mere laborers or workmen; but all positions whose occupants are designated as laborers or workmen, and who were prior to May 6, 1896, and on June 10, 1896, regularly assigned to work of the same grade as that performed by classified employees, shall be included within this classification. Hereafter no person who is appointed as a laborer or workman without examination under the civil-service rules shall be assigned to work of the same grade as that performed by classified employees; and laborers or workmen who, in connection with their usual duties, are to perform work of the grade performed by classified employees shall be appointed upon certification by the Commission from appropriate registers of eligibles in the manner provided by these rules.

Approved, January 19, 1903.

Theodore Roosevelt.