Executive Order 1586

The Commissioner of Pensions is directed to employ as extra clerks under the appropriation of $300,000 carried in the sundry civil act approved August 24, 1912, the 30 persons heretofore employed in the office of the Auditor for the Post Office Department whose names are on the list furnished to the President in a letter of the Secretary of the Treasury dated August 22, 1912, said appropriation act authorizing the Commissioner of Pensions to employ clerks heretofore employed in other departments of the Government service. All of these persons except one have a competitive classified status and will be eligible for reinstatement in the Treasury Department under the civil-service rules.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

August 24, 1912.