Executive Order 394

Schedule A of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by striking out all of the present provisions of Section VIII and substituting therefor the following:


 * All officers and employees in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission upon the Isthmus of Panama, except those who are to perform the duties of clerk, bookkeeper, stenographer, typewriter, surgeon, physician, trained nurse, or draftsman.


 * No person appointed to the service on the Isthmus of Panama otherwise than through competitive examination or by transfer or promotion from a competitive position shall be transferred to a competitive position.

, January 12, 1906.