Executive Order 8585—Amending Paragraph 7, Subdivision I, Schedule A of the Civil Service Rules

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by paragraph Eighth, Subdivision SECOND, section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 404), it is ordered that paragraph 7, Subdivision I, Schedule A of the Civil Service Rules be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

"7. Any person employed in a foreign country or in the Virgin Islands, or in Puerto Rico when public exigency warrants, or in any island possession of the United States in the Pacific Ocean (except the Hawaiian Islands), or in the Philippine Islands, when in the opinion of the Civil Service Commission it is not practicable to treat the position as in the competitive classified service; but this paragraph shall not apply to any person employed in Canada or Mexico in the service of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice, or to any person employed in any foreign country by the Bureau of Customs of the Treasury Department."

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
November 7, 1940.