Executive Order 8300

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403) and by section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U.S.C., title 5, sec. 631), it is ordered that the first sentence of the first paragraph of section 2 (b) of Civil Service Rule VII be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

, December 12, 1939.