Executive Order 8317—Amendment of Schedule B 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. 403, 404), Schedule B of the Civil Service Rules is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subdivision:

"XII. THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

1. Classified positions in The National Archives when filled by the promotion of unclassified laborers appointed under the Labor Regulations, subject to the approval of the Commission."

This order is recommended by the Civil Service Commission in view of the agreement by The National Archives that hereafter unclassified laborer positions in The National Archives will be filled through appointment from appropriate classified registers as provided in section 3 of Civil Service Rule II. This procedure will permit unskilled laborers having a status under the Labor Regulations to advance upon noncompetitive examination to classified positions, but will not accord to such promoted employees a classified status nor render them eligible for transfer to classified positions in other branches of the Federal service.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
January 10, 1940.