Executive Order 689

by President of the United States

Civil-service Rule X, section 8, clause (a) is hereby amended to read as follows:

(a) He must have served three years in or under the Department or independent office from which transfer is proposed; but the Commission may waive this requirement when it deems such action necessary in the interests of the service, in cases of transfer other than from one Executive Department to another at Washington, D. C. In any case, he must have received absolute appointment and have actually served at least six months next preceding the transfer; but the Commission may waive this latter requirement where the person has been separated within a year from a competitive position after six months' service therein, upon the certificate of the proper officer that the separation was caused by a necessary reduction of force and not by inefficiency, and may allow transfer to any other Department or office upon his passing an examination prescribed by the Commission testing his efficiency for the position to which his transfer is proposed, subject to the other provisions of this rule.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House,

September 23, 1907.