Executive Order 7746—Amending Paragraph 7, Subdivision I, Schedule A of the Civil Service Rules

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by paragraph Eighth, subdivision SECOND, section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 404), it is ordered that paragraph 7, Subdivision I, Schedule A of the civil service rules be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

"7. Any person employed in a foreign country, or in the Virgin Islands, or in any island possession of the United States in the Pacific Ocean except the Hawaiian Islands, or United States citizens employed in a confidential capacity in the Philippine Islands, when in the opinion of the Civil Service Commission it is not practicable to treat the position involved as in the competitive classified service; but this paragraph shall not apply to any person employed in a foreign country contiguous to the United States in the service of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Labor."

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
November 20, 1937.