sanitary laborers, including masons, mechanics, and mosquito catchers, on the Canal Zone. [E.O. 4754, Nov. 5, 1927]

(0) All messenger boys employed by the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System. [E.O. 4822, Mar. 3, 1928] (p) Skilled and unskilled laborer positions in the Philippines.* [E.O. 256, Mar. 1, 1904]

50.5 Navy Department. (a) In the United States Naval Academy: Professors, instructors, and teachers. [E.O. 2541, Feb. 27, 1917]

(b) One clerk actually on duty with each assistant paymaster of the United States Marine Corps. [E.O. 1328, Apr. 3, 1911]

(c) All artisan and supervisory artisan positions at the naval stations at Cavite, Olongapo, and Guantanamo. [E.O. 1697, Feb. 4, 1913]

(d) All laundrymen, dietitians, cooks, bakers, dishwashers, mess attendants, and other kitchen and dining-room employees at naval hospitals.* [E.O. 3303, July 9, 1920]

50.6 Department of Justice. (a) Director and not more than three assistant directors of prisons, and members of the board of parole. [E.O. 7551, Feb. 11, 1937]

(b) One clerk to each United States district attorney. [E.O. 209, Mar. 20, 1903]

(c) Not exceeding eight positions in the immediate office of the Attorney General, in addition to private secretary and assistant private secretary excepted under § 50.1 (a). [E.O. 5787, Feb. 2, 19321

(d) One private secretary, or confidential clerk, each, to the Solicitor General, the Assistant to the Attorney General, and the Assistant Attorneys General in addition to those allowed under § 50.1 (a). [E.O. 5787, Feb. 2, 1932]

(e) All positions in the Federal Bureau of Investigation except fingerprint classifiers. [E.O. 6215, July 26, 1933]

(f) One counsel before the Customs Court.* [E.O. 209, Mar. 20, 1903]*

50.7 Post Office Department. (a) The Solicitor of the Post Office Department. [E.O. 209, Mar. 20, 1903]

(b) One executive assistant to the Postmaster General, one special assistant to the Postmaster General, one assistant private secretary to the Postmaster General, one private secretary to the executive assistant to the Postmaster General, one private secretary or confidential clerk to the Solicitor of the Post Office Department, and one private secretary or confidential clerk to the purchasing agent of the Post Office Department. [E.O. 6655, Mar. 27, 1934]

(c) All employees on star routes and in post offices of the third and fourth classes, except village delivery carriers and postmasters of the fourth class other than those in Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Samoa. [E.O. 4373, Jan. 26, 1926]

(d) One auditor or one bookkeeper at the post office in New York City. [E.O. 3686, May 31, 1922]

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Transferred from Treasury by Tariff Act of 1930.

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(e) All clerks in charge of contract stations, appropriated for as such and so reported.* [E.O. 1363, May 26, 1911]

50.8 Department of the Interior. (a) Field representatives whose duties are of a confidential nature in the office of the Secretary of the Interior and who are appropriated for by the Congress. [E.O. 1516, Apr. 10, 1912]

(b) Inspectors of coal mines in the Territories. [E.O. 209, Mar. 20, 1903]

(c) Temporary clerks employed in the United States local land offices to reduce testimony to writing in contest cases, not paid from Government funds. [E.O. 209, Mar. 20, 1903]

(d) In the Indian Service at Large:

(1) Indians employed as guidance and placement officers; boys' advisers (formerly disciplinarians); and in minor positions such as judge, chief of police, police private, interpreter, assistant, and weaver. [E.O. 5388, July 2, 1930]. This also includes any position in the Indian Service where the basic salary does not exceed $1200 per annum. (Rule XVI, sec. 1, E.O. 209, Mar. 20, 1903, 5 CFR 16.1) [Regs., CSC, as of June 1, 1938]

(2) Special commissioners to negotiate with Indians, as the necessity for their employment may arise. [E.O. 5213, Oct. 28, 1929] (3) One financial clerk at each Indian agency to act as agent during the absence or disability of the agent. [E.O. 5213, Oct. 28, 1929]

(4) Physicians and dentists employed in the Indian Service and receiving not more than $1,200 per annum salary, who may lawfully perform their official duties in connection with their private practice, such employment, however, to be subject to the approval of the Commission. [E.O. 5584, Mar. 30, 1931]

(5) Superintendents of livestock, stockmen, stock detectives, and line riders. [E.O. 5213, Oct. 28, 1929]

(6) Special officers to assist in the suppression of the liquor traffic in the Indian Service and among the natives in Alaska. [E.O. 5213, Oct. 28, 1929]

(7) Superintendent of Indian Insane Asylum, Canton, South Dakota. [E.O. 5213, Oct. 28, 1929]

(8) All employees of the Neopit Lumber Mills on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. [E.O. 5213, Oct. 28, 1929]

(9) Attendants employed at hospitals and sanatoria upon the duties of practical nurse, matron, assistant matron, female laborer, assistant, laundress, seamstress, housekeeper, and laborers working inside in connection with cleaning and the care of patients, when, in the opinion of the Commission, it is not expedient to make appointment upon competitive examination. [E.O. 5213, Oct. 28, 1929]

(10) Agricultural extension agents and home demonstration agents employed in field positions in the Indian Service, the work of which is financed jointly by the Indian Service and cooperating persons or organizations outside the Federal service. Appointments hereunder may be made only where the employment of a full-time agent is not justified. [E.O. 5388, July 2, 1930]

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*For statutory citation, see note to § 50.0.

(11) Guards, scalers, field assistants for reconnaissance parties, foremen engaged upon road or trail construction, and telephone operators, employed temporarily during the season of danger from fires or when special work requires additions to the regular forest force. Such employees shall serve only so long as absolutely required and in no case beyond the usual field season. So far as the Commission may deem practicable, appointments of such employees shall be made from the registers of eligibles. [E.O. 7422, July 23, 1936, 1 F.R. 885]

(e) Six special agents of the Division of Investigations, Office of the Secretary, to investigate fraudulent entries and other matters of a criminal nature. [E.O. 6835, Aug. 29, 1934]

(f) Consulting engineers, geologists, and economists on reclamation work in agriculture. [E.O. 4912, June 18, 1928]

(g) One confidential clerk and one record clerk to the Superintendent of St. Elizabeths Hospital. [E.O. 316, Mar. 30, 1905]

(h) Chief counsel in the Reclamation Service. [E.Ó. 1146, Dec. 10, 1909]

(i) One histopathologist temporarily engaged in research work at St. Elizabeths Hospital. [E.O. Mar. 23, 1910]

(j) One specialist in higher education in the Bureau of Education. [E.O. 1218, July 1, 1910]

(k) The assistant to the Secretary in the office of the Secretary of the Interior. [E.O. 1340, Apr. 21, 1911]

(1) Clerk to sign under the direction of the Secretary, in his name and for him, his approval of all tribal deeds. [E.O. 3525, July 29, 1921]

(m) Fire guards or smoke chasers, fire lookout observers, telephone operators, and field assistants in type mapping, insect and tree-disease control, and other protection work or surveys, employed temporarily during the season of danger from fires or when special work requires additions to the regular force of the National Park Service outside of the District of Columbia. They shall serve only so long as absolutely necessary and, in no case, shall they serve beyond the usual field season. So far as the Commission may deem practicable, such appointments shall be made from the registers of eligibles. [E.O. 7237, Nov. 27, 1935]

(n) All commissioners and statutory places of secretary for the national military parks, one assistant secretary to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission.* [E.O. 3371, Dec. 17, 1920]

50.9 Department of Agriculture. (a) (1) Agents employed in the field positions the work of which is financed jointly by the Department and cooperating persons or organizations outside the Federal service. [E.O. 1592, Aug. 26, 1912]

(2) Local agents outside of Washington engaged in demonstrating in their respective localities the advantages of scientific methods of agriculture. Agents of this class must be representative farmers whose ability and personality make them leaders in their respective communities. [E.Ó. 1592, Aug. 26, 1912]

*For statutory citation, see note to § 50.0.

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(3) Local agents, except veterinarians, employed outside of Washington in demonstrating in their respective localities the necessity of eradicating cattle ticks, scabies, hog cholera, and animal tuberculosis, and other contagious or infectious animal diseases. [E.O. 1592, Aug. 26, 1912]

(4) Agents employed in positions at such isolated places and requiring such knowledge of local conditions that they cannot, in the opinion of the Commission, be filled by open competitive examination. [E.O. 1592, Aug. 26, 1912]

(5) Agents employed intermittently for short periods outside of Washington, the aggregate individual length of whose service during any 1 calendar year shall not exceed 6 months, provided that employment under this provision shall not be for job work such as contemplated in § 8.4. The name of the employee, designation, rate of pay, and place of employment shall be shown in the periodical reports of changes; and in addition the aggregate individual service rendered and the distribution of such service during the year shall be shown in the report of changes at the end of each year or when the employee is separated from the service. [E.O. 1592, Aug. 26, 1912] (6) Student assistants whose salary shall not exceed a rate of $480 a year each while employed. [E.O. 1592, Aug. 26, 1912; E.O. 4320, Oct. 8, 1925]

(7) Agents employed to take and transmit meteorological observations in connection with airways, whose duties require only a part of their time, and whose compensation does not exceed $100 per month. Continuance of this exception beyond a period of 3 years from the date of its adoption shall be dependent upon the joint agreement of the Department of Agriculture and the Civil Service Commission. [E.O. 5123, May 21, 1929]"

(8) Prior consent of the Civil Service Commission must be obtained for the appointment of agent under (4), and in making appointments under (1), (2), (3), (6), and (7), a full report shall be submitted immediately by the Department to the Commission, setting forth the name, designation, and compensation of the appointee, and a statement of the duties to which he is to be assigned, and of his qualifications for such duties, in such detail as to indicate clearly that the appointment is properly made under one of the above subparagraphs. The same procedure shall be followed in the case of the assignment of any agent to duties of a different character. [E.O. 5123, May 21, 1929]

(9) Inspectors, scouts, trap tenders, truck drivers, and operators of mechanical equipment, such as sprayers, burners, plows, and rakes, employed temporarily in the field in cooperation with the various States in connection with the enforcement of the Plant Quarantine Act. They shall serve only so long as absolutely required and in no case beyond 180 days in any one year. The name of the employee, designation, rate of pay, and place of employment shall be shown in the periodical reports of changes; and in addition the aggregate individual service rendered and the distribution of such service during the year shall be shown in the report of changes at the end of each

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year or when the employee is separated from the service. [E.O. 5662, July 1, 1931]

(b) One statistical agent in each State and Territory where authorized by law. [E.O. 209, Mar. 20, 1903]

(c) Guards, scalers, field assistants for reconnaissance parties, foremen engaged upon road or trail construction, and telephone operators, employed temporarily during the season of danger from fires or when special work requires additions to the regular forest force. They shall serve only so long as absolutely required and in no case beyond the usual field season. So far as the Commission may deem practicable, such appointments shall be made from the registers of eligibles. [E.O. 5055, Feb. 23, 1929]

(d) Special meteorological observers at stations in Alaska, in the West Indies, and in portions of foreign territory bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. [E.O. 2468, Oct. 10, 1916] (e) Two assistants to the Secretary in the office of the Secretary of Agriculture. [E.O. 7702, Sept. 6, 1937, 2 F.R. 1826]

(f) Any local veterinarian employed on a fee basis or a part-time basis, where in the opinion of the Commission the establishment of registers is impracticable.* [E.O. 7400, June 23, 1936, 1 F.R. 653]

50.10 Department of Commerce. (a) All persons temporarily connected with the field operations of the Bureau of Fisheries who are paid from lump appropriations for miscellaneous expense. No person employed in a position specifically provided for by statute, at any station, shall be regarded as excepted from examination hereunder. [E.O. 364, Oct. 31, 1905]

(b) All student assistants in the Bureau of Standards whose salary shall not exceed a rate of $480 a year each while employed, provided that no person shall be eligible for appointment as student assistant who is not a bona fide student pursuing a technical or scientific course at a high school or college of recognized standing. Appointments under this paragraph shall not continue for a longer period than 6 months in any one year, except upon prior approval of the Commission, and then only in exceptionally meritorious cases. All appointments under this paragraph shall be reported to the Commission as made with a statement of the education of the appointee and the duties to be performed in each case. [E.O. 2637, June 12, 1917; E.O. 4320, Oct. 8, 1925]

(c) Seamen, deck-hand, fireman, and employees in the mess department on vessels of, in addition to lamplighters in, the Lighthouse Service. [E.O. 7852, Mar. 29, 1938, 3 F.R. 663]

(d) Four assistants to the Secretary in the office of the Secretary of Commerce. [E.O. 4180, Mar. 24, 1925]

(e) All clerks to commercial attachés and trade commissioners for service in foreign countries or in the insular possessions of the United States. [E.O. 4461, June 21, 1926]

(f) Caretakers and light attendants employed in connection with emergency landing fields and other air navigation facilities under the Air Commerce Act of 1926. (E.O. 4536, Nov. 3, 1926) Authority continued indefinitely.* (Rule XVI, sec. 1, E.O. 209, Mar. 20, 1903, 5 CFR 16.1) [Regs., CSC, as of June 1, 1938]

*For statutory citation, see note to § 50.0.

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