Executive Order 149

Rule II is hereby amended by adding thereto the following clause, to be numbered 9:

For the purpose of enabling the Commission to make the investigations authorized by section 2 of the civil-service act it shall be the duty of every officer and employee in the public service to give to said Commission, or its authorized representatives, all proper and competent information and testimony in regard to all matters inquired of and to subscribe such testimony and make oath or affirmation to the same before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths.

Approved.

Theodore Roosevelt.

White House,

December 11, 1901.