Executive Order 160

Rule XII of the Civil-Service Rules is hereby amended by adding thereto the following, which will constitute paragraphs 3 and 4:

Every nominating or appointing officer in the Executive Departments and independent bureaus and offices at Washington, D. C., shall furnish to the Commission a list of all employees and positions in the service under his control and authority in Washington, D. C., which are or have been regarded or treated as below classification, said list to include the names of all persons now in the service who have been appointed or employed without certification by the Commission since the classification of the office or branch of the service in which they are employed. The duties performed by each such person and pertaining to each such position shall be stated in detail sufficient to enable the Commission to determine the status of each position as classified or unclassified. Said nominating or appointing officers shall furnish to the Commission a similar report in the case of each person appointed or employed hereafter in a position regarded as unclassified.

All essential changes of duties pertaining to positions referred to in paragraph 3 of this rule shall be reported at once to the Commission. 

Approved.

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 * January 23, 1902.