Executive Order 30

Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:

8. The First Comptroller of the Treasury having advised the Secretary of the Treasury that under the operation of section 5 of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act making appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, the employment of substitutes in the Departmental Service must cease from and after July 1, 1893, it is ordered, in view of the fact that the substitutes now employed were appointed by regular certification under section 7 of this rule, that such of said substitutes as shall not be appointed to regular places before the employment of substitutes shall cease shall be eligible for appointment to regular places by reinstatement under the provisions of Departmental Rule X, in the order of their employment as substitutes, as provided in said section 7, notwithstanding the prohibition contained in the second proviso of said section, and said substitutes shall have preference for appointment in the manner herein provided over all other eligibles.
   
   This section shall become inoperative and cease to be a part of the civil-service rules when all of the substitutes now employed in the several Departments shall have been appointed as herein provided, or shall have ceased to be eligible for appointment by reason of the expiration of the time within which a reinstatement can be made under Rule X.

Approved April 12, 1893.

Grover Cleveland.

Executive Mansion,

April 12, 1893.