Executive Order 1964

Section 10 of Rule X is hereby amended to read as follows:

10. An officer or employee occupying a competitive position in the Philippine classified service, who has served three years or more therein, may be transferred to the Federal classified service, subject to the provisions of these rules; but the commission may authorize the transfer of an officer or employee who has served two years in the Philippine classified service and who has been separated by necessary reduction of force or by displacement by a Filipino, if he is especially recommended by the War Department because of his efficiency and good character. In all cases of proposed transfer from the Philippine classified service the War Department shall furnish the commission, for its consideration, all relevant information contained in its files, together with the service record of the employee.

This amendment, which is recommended by the commission with the concurrence of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, permits approval of the transfer of meritorious employees who are forced out of the service after having served two years, the minimum requirement having been three years heretofore.

The following sections are hereby added to Rule X:

11. The commission may, in its discretion, authorize the transfer of employees from the civil service of Porto Rico to that of the United States, subject to the limitations respecting transfer within the civil service of the United States.
12. No person appointed in the Isthmian Canal service otherwise than through competitive examination, or by transfer or promotion from a competitive position, shall be transferred to a competitive position, unless he was classified by the Executive Order of November 15, 1904, in a position which was then and is at the time of the proposed transfer in the competitive service: Provided, That artisans who are citizens of the United States, who have rendered one year's satisfactory service on the Isthmus of Panama, and who may be recommended, upon discharge, for transfer, may be transferred without examination within three years to corresponding classified positions in or under any department or office, subject to the provisions of these rules.
13. In a case of exceptional merit where an employee has rendered long and faithful service beyond the seas in a civil capacity, under conditions such that his appointment and services were not in contravention of the civil-service rules or Executive orders, he may be given a classified status by the head of the department or office in which such service was rendered, on certification by such officer that the case is one of exceptional merit and with the approval of the commission. The provisions of this section may be applied in the case of Philippine Constabulary officers who have rendered at least seven years of efficient and satisfactory service.

The foregoing provisions are now contained in Executive orders and are made a part of the civil-service rules upon recommendation of the Civil Service Commission that they may be more easily referred to and'greater publicity given to their existence.

Woodrow Wilson.

The White House, 15 June, 1914.