Executive Order 714

by President of the United States

The regulations governing the employment of unskilled laborers in Federal offices outside of Washington, D. C., promulgated December 12, 1904, are hereby amended by the addition of the following clause to Regulation IV, section 1, paragraph (a):

The Commission may, however, in any civil-service district, certify from its register the three standing highest thereon shown by said register to possess the requisite qualifications for the position to be filled.

As amended, paragraph (a) referred to will read:

(a) The nominating or appointing officer shall request the certification of eligibles, specifying sex and principal duties of the position, and the board shall certify from the proper register the three names at the head thereof, of the sex specified, which may not have been certified three times to the office in which the vacancy exists. The Commission may, however, in any civil-service district, certify from its register the three standing highest thereon shown by said register to possess the requisite qualifications for the position to be filled.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House,

November 22, 1907.