Executive Order 643

Section 8, clause (a), of Rule X, is hereby amended to read as follows:

(a) He must have received absolute appointment and have actually served in the Classified service at least six months next preceding the transfer; and if from one Executive Department to another at Washington, he must have served at least three years in the Department from which the transfer is proposed; if to or from the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Civil Service Commission, the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Government Printing Office, the Smithsonian Institution, or any other independent bureau, commission, or office at Washington, he must have served at least three years in the bureau, commission, office, or Department from which transfer is proposed; but when, in its judgment, the interests of the service so require, the Civil Service Commission may waive the three-year limitation in cases of transfers to or from such independent bureaus, offices, or commissions at Washington.

The transfer of persons in the classified service in offices under the supervision of one of the nine Executive Departments, but established and located outside such Departments—as, for instance, employees and subordinates in post-offices, pension agencies, custom-houses, ordnance establishments, sub-treasuries, navy-yards, quartermasters' establishments, the field service of the Reclamation Service, and other services in like position—shall not be allowed where the person whose transfer is proposed has not served three years in the branch of the Executive Department from which his transfer is desired, unless the provisions of this section are waived by the Civil Service Commission in cases in which in its judgment the interests of the service so require. Transfers between the Executive Departments or independent bureaus, commissions, or offices, and the field services shall be subject to the regulation last mentioned.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House,

June 5, 1907.