Executive Order 1180

The following amendments to the civil-service rules are hereby promulgated:

Strike out all of clause 2 of Rule III except the following:

Where, in its opinion, the conditions of good administration warrant, the commission may give noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for (a) transfer, reinstatement, or promotion; 

and add thereto the following words:


 * and (b) appointment to the positions named in Schedule B of these rules.

As amended clause 2 of Rule III will read:

Where, in its opinion, the conditions of good administration warrant, the commission may give noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for (a) transfer, reinstatement, or promotion; and (b) appointment to the positions named in Schedule B of these rules. 

The authority in said rule for noncompetitive examination of applicants for appointment and that contained in Section XI of Schedule A, which is hereby amended by the insertion between the words "prosecutions" and "subject " of the words "and ten inspectors under the hours of service division," shall be continued in a schedule to form a part of the rules, as follows:

The noncompetitive examinations authorized under Rule III, clause 2, shall consist of the same tests of fitness as those applied to other persons seeking appointment through competitive examination.

 Superintendent, teacher, manual training teacher, kindergartner, physician, matron, clerk, seamstress, farmer, and industrial teacher in the Indian Service at Large when filled by Indians. Messenger, assistant messenger, and messenger boy in the Office of Indian Affairs when filled by Indians. Any competitive position at an Indian school when filled by the wife of a competitive employee at that school. 

  Not exceeding 20 special agents under the division of prosecutions and 10 inspectors under the hours of service division, subject to such evidence of qualifications as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe after consultation with the Interstate Commerce Commission: Provided, That should the Civil Service Commission at any time have reason to believe that the privilege so afforded is abused, it may revoke it.</li> </ol>

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 * March 23, 1910.