Executive Order 3461

The joint resolution of March 3, 1921, declaring that certain acts of Congress, joint resolutions, and proclamations shall be construed as if the war with Germany and Austria-Hungary had ended and the present or existing emergency expired, provides, among other things, that in interpreting the provisions relative to the duration or termination of the war ‘‘the date when this resolution becomes effective shall be construed and treated as the date of the termination of the war or of the present existing emergency.’’ Therefore, all Executive orders and amendments to the civil service rules authorizing appointments, promotions, or removals without full compliance with the civil service laws and rules, because of war emergencies existing at the time, are hereby revoked.

A list of the orders revoked by this order is as follows, to wit:

Employees appointed under the orders which are hereby revoked, serving in positions which are permanent under peace conditions, shall not hereby be given a competitive classified status, but may, in the discretion of the head of the department or independent establishment where now employed, continue in their present excepted status and in their present positions or such allied positions as the commission may approve.

, May 16, 1921.