Executive Order 104

The following proviso will be inserted after paragraph 4 of Rule VII:


 * Provided, That in case a person whose name is upon any register shall be mustered into the military or naval service of the United States at a time when the United States may be engaged in hostilities with an enemy, the period of eligibility of such person shall, under such conditions as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe, be considered as suspended during the time such eligible may be serving in the Army or Navy of the United States.

As amended the rule with the proviso will read as follows:

The term of eligibility shall be one year from the date on which the named of the eligible is entered upon the register: Provided, That in case a person whose name is upon any register shall be mustered into the military or naval service of the United States at a time when the United States may be engaged in hostilities with an enemy, the period of eligibility of such person shall, under such conditions as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe, be considered as suspended during the time such eligible may be serving in the Army or Navy of the United States.

Approved.

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 * May 13, 1898