Executive Order 125

Civil Service Rule XI is hereby amended by adding to section 4 the following proviso:

And provided further, That nothing contained in this rule, or in any regulation made in pursuance thereof, shall be so construed as to prevent an appointing officer, in his discretion, from promoting a person who 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 who was honorably discharged therefrom, who has been reinstated in the service in a grade or position below that from which he was separated to a grade or position no higher than that from which he was separated.

Approved.

William McKinley.

Executive Mansion,

January 29, 1900.