Executive Order 1592

Subdivision I of Schedule A of the civil service rules will be amended by the addition of a section containing the substance of the Executive order of December 1, 1910, and reading as follows:

15. Positions of unusual character as to duties or compensation and for which qualified persons are so rare that in the judgment of the commission they can not in the interests of good civil service administration be filled through competitive examination. Prior consent of the commission must be obtained for appointments under this clause.

Subdivision IX of Schedule A will be amended by striking out section 1 thereunder and substituting the following:

1. (a) Agents employed in field positions the work of which is financed jointly by the department and cooperating persons or organizations outside the Federal service.
   (b) Local agents outside of Washington, engaged in demonstrating in their respective localities the advantages of scientific methods of agriculture. Agents of this class must be representative farmers whose ability and personality make them leaders in their respective communities.
   (c) Local agents, except veterinarians, employed outside of Washington in demonstrating in their respective localities the necessity of eradicating cattle ticks, scabies, hog cholera and animal tuberculosis, and other contagious or infectious animal diseases.
   (d) Agents employed in positions at such isolated places and requiring such knowledge of local conditions that they can not in the opinion of the commission be filled by open competitive examination.
   (e) Agents employed intermittently for short periods outside of Washington, the aggregate individual length of whose service during any one calendar year shall not exceed six months, provided that employment under this provision shall not be for job work such as contemplated in section 4 of Rule VIII. The name of the employee, designation, rate of pay, and place of employment shall be shown in the periodical reports of changes; and in addition the aggregate individual service rendered and the distribution of such service during the year shall be shown in the report of changes at the end of each year or when the employee is separated from the service.
   (f) Student assistants whose salary shall not exceed a rate of $300 a year each while employed.
   
   Prior consent of the commission must be obtained for the appointment of agents under clause (d) above; and in making appointments under clauses (a), (b), (c), (e), and (f), a full report shall be submitted immediately by the department to the commission setting forth the name, designation and compensation of the appointee, and a statement of the duties to which he is to be assigned, and of his qualifications for such duties, in such detail as to indicate clearly that the appointment is properly made under one of the above clauses. The same procedure shall be followed in the case of the assignment of any agent to duties of a different character.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

August 26, 1912.