Executive Order 5777—Amendment of Schedule B of the Civil-Service Rules to Increase the Number of Positions of Headquarters Messenger, Philippine Department

Paragraph 3 of Schedule B, Subdivision IV, War Department, of positions excepted from the competitive feature of examination under the civil-service rules, is hereby amended to read as follows:

3. Four positions of headquarters messenger at the headquarters of the Philippine Department, when filled by honorably discharged enlisted men who have been on duty at those headquarters.

The effect of this amendment is to increase the number of positions, upon the recommendation of the War Department that the reasons for the exception are equally applicable to all four positions. The commission concurs with the department in recommending this amendment.

HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
January 19, 1932.