Executive Order 955

The regulations governing the employment of unskilled laborers at Washington, D. C., are hereby amended, viz:

1. By the addition of a new regulation, to be numbered XI, and to read as follows:

   Sec. 1. The board, with the authority of the commission, shall have authority to authorize:

   (a) The demotion of any person from the classified service to the position of mere unskilled laborer, and the appointment of such person in consequence of such demotion, upon his passing the required physical examination, to the position of mere unskilled laborer, a statement of duties in every instance to be appended to the request of the department for such demotion, showing the duties of the person to be demoted in his former and in his proposed new position.

   (b) The temporary appointment of a mere unskilled laborer for a period to exceed thirty days, in cases of great and evident necessity.

2. By adding to the concluding sentence of Regulation VII the words "except as provided in Regulation XI hereof." The amended regulation will read:

   Appointment or employment for temporary service shall be made as far as practicable as appointments to permanent positions. Where the needs of the service require, the board may authorize the temporary appointment of any eligible or of a person whose name is not on any register, but no person shall render more than thirty days' temporary service in any period of twelve months where appointed out of his turn, or outside these regulations, except as provided in Regulation XI hereof.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House,

October 21, 1908.