Executive Order 7405—Amendment of Subdivision IV, Schedule B, 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 (22 Stat. 403, 404), Subdivision IV, Schedule B, of the Civil Service Rules is hereby amended by adding thereto the following paragraph to permit employments thereunder by the War Department in areas outside the continental limits of the United States when in the opinion of the Secretary of War the best interests of the service so require:
"4. Any person employed in an area outside the continental limits of the United States (except the Canal Zone and Alaska), when in the opinion of the Secretary of War the best interests of the service so require."
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 6, 1936.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7405—Amendment of Subdivision IV, Schedule B, Civil Service Rules Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/356166