July 26, 1936
White House
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), it is ordered that Subdivision I of Schedule B of the Civil Service Rules be, and it is hereby, amended by eliminating paragraph 2 thereof, and changing paragraph 1 thereof to read as follows:
(l) Positions in the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., and in the field, not now excepted from examination under Schedule A, where the applicants are of one-fourth or more Indian blood.
Franklin D. Roosevelt