Executive Order 183

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act, approved January 16, 1883, the following amendment to Civil Service Rule VI is hereby promulgated:

Amend section 18 of Rule VI by designating the present exception in said paragraph as (a) and adding the following exception thereto:


 * (b) Not exceeding one confidential clerk, if authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, to the commissioner of immigration at the port of New York.

As thus amended section 18 of Rule VI will read:

(a) Not exceeding one private secretary or confidential clerk, if authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, to each of the appraisers at the ports of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, respectively.

(b) Not exceeding one confidential clerk, if authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, to the commissioner of immigration at the port of New York. 

Approved.

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 * July 21, 1902.