Executive Order 615

Section 8, clause (a), of Rule X, is hereby amended to read as follows:


 * "(a) He must have received absolute appointment and have actually served in the classified service at least six months next preceding the transfer; and if from one Executive Department to another at Washington, he must have served at least three years in the Department from which the transfer is proposed; if to or from the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Civil Service Commission, the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Government Printing Office, the Smithsonian Institution, or any other independent bureau, commission, or office at Washington, he must have served at least three years in the bureau, commission, office, or Department from which transfer is proposed; but when, in its judgment, the interests of the service so require the Civil Service Commission may waive the three year limitation in cases of transfers to or from such independent bureaus, offices, or commissions at Washington."

., April 15, 1907.