Executive Order 123

Civil-Service Rule IX is hereby amended by inserting after the words "by reason of" in the sixth line of the second proviso, the words, "the discontinuance of the free-delivery service at any post-office," so as amended the proviso will read:

And provided further, That, subject to the other conditions of these rules, any person who has served in the military or naval service of the United States in the late war of the rebellion or in the Spanish-American war and was honorably discharged therefrom, or the widow of any such person, or an army nurse of either of said wars, and any person who has been separated from the service by reason of the discontinuance of the free-delivery service at any post-office, or a reduction of force specifically required by law, may be reinstated without regard to the length of time he or she has been separated from the service.

Approved.

William McKinley.

Executive Mansion,

January 15, 1900.