Executive Order 6970—Amendment of Schedule A, Subdivision III, Paragraph 7, of the Civil-Service Rules

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the provisions of paragraph eighth of subdivision SECOND of section 2 of the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883 (ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403, 404), schedule A, subdivision III, paragraph 7, of the civil-service rules is hereby amended to read as follows:

"7. Public Health Service: Attendants employed in hospitals, quarantine stations, sanatoriums, and other similar establishments where, in the opinion of the Commission, the establishment of registers is impracticable; employees engaged in rural sanitation work financed jointly by the Treasury Department and a State, county, or municipality, and for which at least one-half of the expense is furnished by a State, county, or municipality; personnel engaged in plague-suppressive measures, where a cooperative budget is agreed upon, which provides that the work shall be financed jointly by the Treasury Department and a State, county, or municipality, and for which at least one-half of the expense is borne by the cooperative agency; and employees assigned to classified positions during treatment or convalescence at Government sanatoriums."

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
February 15, 1935.