Executive Order 148

Rule VIII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following clause, to be numbered 16:

For the purpose of securing the proper enforcement of sections 2 and 7 of the civil-service act, and of the rules adopted in pursuance thereof, the Commission, whenever it shall find that any person is holding a position in the civil service in violation of the provisions of the civil-service act or of these rules, shall, after notice to the person affected and an opportunity for explanation or other statement, certify information of the fact of such violation to the head of the department or office in or under which such position is held, and then, if such person be not dismissed within thirty days, to the disbursing and auditing officers through whom the payment of the salary or wages of such position is by law required to be made, and thereafter such disbursing or auditing officers shall not pay or permit to be paid to such person any salary or wages which accrue after such certificate has been received by them: Provided, however, That if a question of law respecting the power to appoint or employ is raised in any such case the President or the head of a department may obtain the opinion of the Attorney-General thereon.

Approved.

Theodore Roosevelt.

White House,

December 11, 1901.