Executive Order 9662—Restricting Competition in Certain Civil-service Examinations to Veterans

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the Veterans' Preference Act of 1944, approved June 27, 1944 (58 Stat. 387, 388), and section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (5 U.S.C. 631), it is hereby ordered as follows:

In civil-service examinations for the position of Correctional Officer in the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, the United States Civil Service Commission shall restrict competition during the present war and for five years following the termination thereof to persons entitled to preference under the said Veterans' Preference Act of 1944, as long as persons entitled to preference are available.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

November 29, 1945