Executive Order 151

by President of the United States

Section 13 of Rule VIII is hereby amended (1) by inserting at the end of the first sentence thereof the following:

; but if there be one eligible or two eligibles upon the appropriate register, the appointing officer may appoint the one eligible or one of the two eligibles in the same manner as if a full certification of three eligibles were available, and if he elect not to make a regular appointment from such incomplete register he must select the one eligible or one of the two eligibles thus available for temporary appointment as authorized above, unless special reasons are given and approved, as provided by section 4 of this rule, why the selection should not be so made.

and (2) by substituting for the words "an eligible," in the seventh and eighth lines, the words "three eligibles;" so that as amended the section will read as follows:

13. Whenever there are no names of eligibles upon a register for any grade in which a vacancy exists and the public interest requires that it must be filled before eligibles can be provided by the Commission, such vacancy may, subject to the approval of the Commission, be filled by appointment without examination and certification for such part of three months as will enable the Commission to provide eligibles; but if there be one eligible or two eligibles upon the appropriate register, the appointing officer may appoint the one eligible or one of the two eligibles in the same manner as if a full certification of three eligibles were available, and if he elect not to make a regular appointment from such incomplete register he must select the one eligible or one of the two eligibles thus available for temporary appointment as authorized above, unless specific reasons are given and approved, as provided by section 4 of this rule, why the selection should not be so made. Such temporary appointment shall expire by limitation as soon as three eligibles shall be provided, and no person shall serve longer than three months in any one year under such temporary appointment or appointments, unless by special authority of the Commission previously obtained. Said year limitation shall commence from the date of such first appointment: Provided, That whenever an emergency shall arise requiring that a vacancy shall be filled before a certification can be issued and an appointment made thereto in the manner provided in these rules, such vacancy may be filled, without regard to the provisions of these rules, for such part of thirty days as may be required for the issuance of a certificate and the execution of the necessary details of an appointment thereto in accordance with said provisions. Such appointment shall in no case continue longer than thirty days.

Approved.

Theodore Roosevelt.

White House,

December 11, 1901.