Executive Order 187

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes and of the civil-service act approved January 16, 1883, Civil Service Rule III is hereby amended as follows:

In clause (f) of section 8 strike out the words "in the United States or beyond the seas," after the word "diseases" in line 7, and add the following:

, or for temporary duty either in the United States or elsewhere in preventing the introduction or spread of contagious or infectious diseases.

As amended the clause will read:

(f) Any person employed in the Marine-Hospital Service as quarantine attendant at the Gulf, South Atlantic, Mullet Key, Reedy Island, Cape Charles, Columbia River, or San Francisco quarantine; and any person temporarily employed as quarantine attendant, or acting assistant surgeon, or sanitary inspector on quarantine vessels, or in camps or stations established for quarantine purposes during epidemics of contagious diseases, or for temporary duty either in the United States or elsewhere in preventing the introduction or spread of contagious or infectious diseases.

Theodore Roosevelt.

White House,

August 16, 1902.