Executive Order 7257—Amendment of Paragraph 9, Subdivision I, Schedule A of 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 (22 Stat. 403, 404), paragraph 9, subdivision I, Schedule A of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by adding thereto a sentence providing for the reinstatement of former employees who served in excepted positions in Alaska, upon the recommendation of the appointing officer and the approval of the Civil Service Commission—the paragraph as amended to read as follows:

"9. All positions in Alaska which cannot be filled from appropriate existing registers, except those in the Customs Service. Former employees who served in positions excepted under this paragraph may be reinstated at any time upon the recommendation of the appointing officer and the approval of the Civil Service Commission."

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
December 26, 1935.