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REGISTER
VOLUME 3

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NUMBER 125

W ashington, Tuesday, June 28, 1938
The Presid en t
EXECUTIVE ORDER
A m e n d m e n t o p C i v i l S e r v ic e R u l e s
By virtue of and pursuant to the au thority vested in me by the Constitution, by section 1753 of the Revised Statutes U. S. C., title 5, sec. 631, by the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883 22 Stat.
403, and as President of the United States, the Civil Service Rules are hereby amended, effective February 1, 1939, to read as follows:
RULE I. POLITICS AND RELIGION

1. No interference with elections. No person in the executive civil service shall use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an elec tion or affecting the results thereof.
Persons who by the provisions of these rules are in the competitive classified service, while retaining the right to vote as they please and to express privately their opinions on all political subjects, shall take no active part in political management or in political campaigns.
2. No disclosure or discriminations.
No question in any form of application or in any examination shall be so framed as to elicit information concerning the political or religious opinions or affilia tions of any applicant, nor shall any inquiry be made concerning such opin ions or affiliations, and all disclosures thereof shall be discountenanced. No discrimination shall be exercised, threat ened, or promised by any person in the executive civil service against or in favor of an applicant, eligible, or employee in the classified service because of his polit ical or religious opinions or affiliations.
3. Recommendations not considered.
No recommendation of an applicant, eli gible, or employee in the classified serv ice involving disclosure of his political or religious opinions or affiliations shall be considered or filed by the Civil Serv ice Commission, hereinafter called the Commission, or by any officer concerned in making appointments or promotions.

RULE n . CLASSIFICATION OF THE SERVICE

1. Extent of the classified service.
The classified service shall include all persons who have heretofore or may hereafter be given a competitive status in the classified civil service, with or without competitive examination, by legislative enactment, or under the civil service rules promulgated by the Presi dent, or by executive orders covering groups o f employees with their positions into the competitive classified service, or authorizing the appointment o f individ uals to positions within such service. It shall include all positions now existing or hereafter created by legislative or ex ecutive action, of whatever function or designation, whether compensated by a fixed salary or otherwise, unless excepted from classification by specific affirmative legislative or executive action. No right of classification shall accrue to persons whose appointment or assignment to classified duties is in violation of the civil service rules.
2. Examination required. No person shall be appointed, employed, promoted, or transferred in the classified service, or perform the duties of any position therein, until he passes the examination prescribed by the Commission in his case, unless especially exempted.

CONTENTS
TH E PRESIDENT
Executive Orders:
Page Civil Service Rules, amendment. 1519
Competitive classified Civil Serv ice, extension_____________ 1526
RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T it l e 9 A n im a l s P r o ducts :

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A n im a l
Bureau of Animal Industry:
Appraisement and compen sation fo r tuberculous, etc., reacting cattle con demned and destroyed__1527
T it l e 12 B a n k in g and C r e d it :
Federal Deposit Insurance Cor poration:
Loans upon security of sav ings deposits____________ 1528
T it l e 16 C o m p e t it iv e P ractices :
Federal Trade Commission:
Shelton Tubular Rivet Co., et al., cease and desist order___________________
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T it l e 30 M in e r a l M in in g :

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Bureau of Mines:
Electric mine lamps, other than cap lamps, require 3. Appointment w i t h o u t examina ments for permissibility, tion. a Schedules A and B of the civil etc----------------------------service rules are continued as a part of T it l e 31 M o n e y and F in a n c e :
the said rules as amended by this order, T r e a su r y :
and positions named in such Schedules Accounts and Deposits:
are excepted from the classified service.
Bonds executed by Bankers b Appointments to the excepted po Indemnity Insurance Co., sitions named in Schedule A may be in favor of United States.
made without examination or upon non Corporations acceptable as competitive examination.
sureties on Federal bonds.
c Appointments to the excepted po T it l e 43 P u b l ic L a n d s :
sitions named in Schedule B may be Division of Grazing:
made upon such noncompetitive exami Federal Range Code, supple nation as the Commission shall prescribe.
mentary rules__________
d The proper appointing officer may Utah Grazing District No. 1, fill any position named in Schedule A or modification_____________
Schedule B, or any other excepted posi General Land Office:
tion, as classified positions are filled, in Montana No. 1, stock drive which case the person so appointed shall way withdrawal No. 11, be eligible for transfer, reinstatement, or modified________________
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