Executive Order 172

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and by "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January 16, 1883, Civil Service Rule III is hereby amended by striking out all of clause (i), paragraph 8, in relation to positions and employees in or under the Navy Department, and the following order is hereby made and promulgated in lieu thereof:

Executive Order.

All persons at navy-yards, naval stations, and at private shipbuilding and manufacturing establishments where work is done by contract for the Navy Department, employed as special mechanics and civilian assistant inspectors of work and materials (including ordnance, armor, armor plate, marine engines, hulls, buildings, dredging, etc.), and all persons employed under the Navy Department as ship draftsmen, marine engine and boiler draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, structural steel work draftsmen, electrical draftsmen, cartographic draftsmen, and ordnance draftsmen, including assistant or lower-class draftsmen of the various grades, are hereby placed under regulations of the Navy Department governing the employment of labor at navy-yards. Appointments to these positions shall be made hereafter on tests of fitness prescribed in paragraphs 74 to 83, inclusive, of Navy-Yard Order No. 23, revised. Pending the result of such examinations, the Secretary of the Navy may appoint to the above positions qualified persons for a period not to exceed thirty days: Provided, That when an examination is held by the Navy Department for any of the above positions and no eligibles are obtained, temporary appointment may be made by the Secretary of the Navy for a period not to exceed ninety days, subject to the approval of the Civil Service Commission: And provided further, That transfers of draftsmen from navy-yards, naval stations, and offices outside of Washington, D. C., may be made to the respective bureaus and offices of the Navy Department proper without regard to the rule relating to apportionment.

Approved.

T. Roosevelt.

White House,

April 30, 1902.