Executive Order 402

The Executive order of January 31, 1902, is hereby amended by adding "or independent Government establishments" after the words "departments" in the third and ninth lines.

As amended the order will read as follows:


 * "All officers and employees of the United States of every description, serving in or under any of the Executive departments or independent Government establishments, and whether so serving in or out of Washington, are hereby forbidden, either directly or indirectly, individually or through associations, to solicit an increase of pay or to influence or attempt to influence in their own interest any other legislation whatever, either before Congress or its committees, or in any way save through the heada of the departments or independent Government establishments in or under which they serve, on penalty of dismissal from the Government service."

, January 25, 1906.