Executive Order 290

Laborers in the Executive Departments and offices at Washington who were reported in the lists furnished by the Departments to the Civil Service Commission in 1902, in compliance with section 3, civil service Rule XII, as amended January 23, 1902, whose principal duties were at that time and are now of the grade performed by classified employees will be regarded as classified laborers in the positions occupied by them on the date of this order, and may be promoted to clerical grade or be transferred in the manner provided by the civil service rules and regulations.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House,

January 12, 1905.