Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (5 U.S.C. 631) and by the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403), and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: SECTION 1. Section 203 of Executive Order No. 10577 of November 22, 1954, as amended by Executive Order No. 10675 of August 21, 1956, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 203. The career-conditional appointment of any employee entitled to veteran preference who has a compensable service-connected disability of ten per centum or more may be converted to a career appointment: Provided, that he receives his career-conditional appointment prior to January 1, 1958, and that, not later than December 31, 1958, the agency in which he is employed recommends such conversion and certifies to the Commission that he has satisfactorily completed a one-year probationary period: Provided further, that any such employee who is not certified for career appointment under this section shall have his career-conditional appointment converted to a career appointment when he has completed the service requirement for such appointment prescribed under section 2.2 (a) of Civil Service Rule II." DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, December 12, 1957.