Executive Order 1714

The 21 employees of the post-office service hereafter named who were holding the excepted position of private secretary which was abolished by the act of Congress approved August 24, 1912, making provision for the post-office service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, said act having created the competitive position of stenographer in lieu of the excepted one of private secretary, may be retained in the service but shall not acquire a competitive status until satisfactory evidence of their faithfulness and efficiency has been furnished by the Post Office Department to the Civil Service Commission:

Richard H. Jackman, New York, N. Y.; Zoe Byrd Akins, St. Louis, Mo.; Frederick Oppikofer, Brooklyn, N. Y.; B. Cannon, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Jeremiah M. Carroll, San Francisco, Cal.; John Miller, Philadelphia, Pa.; Anna F. Drew, Minneapolis, Minn.; John P. Owen, Milwaukee, Wis.; Alonzo C. Winans, Los Angeles, Cal.; Annar T. Stolpestad, St. Paul, Minn.; Mary J. Starr, Denver, Colo.; Mary F. Stokes, Atlanta, Ga.; Emmie Perkins, New Orleans, La.; Louise Rogers Rogers, Portland, Oreg.; William M. Lewis, Des Moines, Iowa; Harry R. Worthington, Dallas, Tex.; James F. Pendleton, Richmond, Va.; Marian E. Barnes, Syracuse, N. Y.; Alice C. Barnes, Washington, D. C.; Grace B. Wise, Jacksonville, Fla.; Edna L. Stephens, Oakland, Cal.

Paragraph 3, Subdivision VII, Schedule A of the civil-service rules, excepting one private secretary or confidential clerk to the postmaster, if authorized by the Postmaster General, at each post office where the receipts of the last preceding fiscal year amounted to as much as $350,000, is hereby stricken out and the following paragraphs will be renumbered accordingly, the position of private secretary in the post-office service having ceased to exist.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

February 25, 1913.