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# Executive Order 1247

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Amends Executive Order 383, December 18, 1905.
Signed by President William H. Taft Saturday, September 24, 1910
1910 CSR 108
Schedule A, Section VIII, paragraph 3, of the Civil Service Rules is hereby amended by inserting after the word "guards," in the first line, the following words:
    Field assistants for reconnaissance parties;
and the substitution of the words "Forest Service" for the word "reserve," in line three.
As amended the paragraph will read as follows:
The White House,
    September 24, 1910.
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# Executive Order 12474

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Amends: Executive Order 12260, December 31, 1980
Signed by President Ronald Reagan Tuesday, April 17, 1984
Federal Register page & date: 49 FR 15539, Thursday, April 19, 1984
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America, including Title III of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2511 et seq.) and Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code (3 U.S.C. 301), the Annex to Executive Order No. 12260 is amended as follows to reflect changes in the name or the status of agencies to which the Agreement on Government Procurement applies:
Section 1. "8. Community Services Administration" is deleted and the subsequent items are renumbered.
Sec. 2. "National Tool Center", in the parenthetical expression in renumbered item 31, is replaced by "Tools Commodity Center".
Sec. 3. "54. The Peace Corps" is added to the list.
RONALD REAGAN The White House, April 17, 1984.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:07 p.m., April 17, 1984]
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# Extract from The Autobiography of William Jerdan

Extract from
The Autobiography of William Jerdan
comprising the whole of Volume 3: Chapters 12 and 13 with the Dedication given at the opening of that Volume
Published 1852
# Extract from The Autobiography of William Jordan

Extract from
The Autobiography of William Jerdan
comprising the whole of Volume 3: Chapters 12 and 13 with the Dedication given at the opening of that Volume
Published 1852
# Firman of the Emperor Shah Alum

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At this happy time, our royal Firman, indispensibly requiring obedience, is issued ; that, whereas, in consideration of the attachment and services of the high and mighty, the noblest of exalted nobles, the chief of illustrious warriors, our faithful servants and sincere well-wishers, worthy of our royal favours, the English Company, we have granted them the Dewanny of the Provinces of Bengal, Behar and Orissa from the beginning of the Fasal Rabi of the year 1172, as a free gift and ultumgan, without the association of any other person, and with an exeption from the payment of the customs of the Dewanny which used to be paid by the Court ; it is requisite that the said company engage to be security for the sum of 26 lakhs of rupees a year for our royal revenue, which sum has been appointed from the Nawab Nudjamut-dowla Bahadur, and regularly remit the same to the royal sircar ; and in this case, as the said Company are obliged to keep up a large army for the protection of the Provinces of Bengal &c., we have granted to them whatsoever may remain out of the revenues of the said provinces, after remitting the sum of 26 lakhs of rupees to the royal sircar, and providing for the expenses of the Nizamut. It is requisite that our royal descendents the Viziers, the bestowers of dignity, the Omrahs high in rank, the great officers, the Muttaseddes of the Dewanny, the manager of the business of the Sultanat, the Jaghirdars abd croories, as well the future as the present, using their constant endeavours for the establishment of this our royal command, leave the said office is possession of the said Company, from generation to generation, for ever and ever. Looking upon them to be assured from dismissal or removal, they must, on no account whatsoever, give them any interruption, and they must regard them as excused and exempted from the payment of all the customs of the Dewanny and royal demands. Knowing our orders on the subject to be most strict and positive, let them not deviate therefrom. (Aug. 12, 1765)
# Firestone Tires and Tube Prices letter, May 4, 1927

* Daisy Service Station
* Tires Firestone Tubes
* Palatine, Ill.
May 4, 1927.
Dear Sir:
Firestone Tire and Tube Prices on nearly every size are now the lowest in history.
Firestone's cost per mile of service has always been low -- now the initial cost of every size tire has been materially reduced.
This means that you can now get new equipment -- avoid all chances of trouble from your worn tires -- and with Firestones on your car have greater motoring enjoyment at a lower cost than has ever been possible heretofore.
Firestone Tires are the only Gum-Dipped Tires made! See for yourself, Mr. Car Owner, what this means to you. Learn the truth about Gum-Dipping by comparing examples "A" and "B".
Strand "A" is long staple cotton.
Strand "B" is the same cotton after it has been gum-dipped and illustrates how each individual fiber is thoroughly saturated and impregnated with rubber.
Notice how much more difficult it is to pull apart the Gum-Dipped strand.
Gum-Dipping cements the fibers together into a unit of strength and toughness. This is one of the reasons why Firestone Tires are better -- why they withstand the wear and tear of the roads and give "Most Miles per Dollar".
You will be surprised at our extremely low prices on tires and tubes. Come in today -- let us quote you on your size.
Yours very truly,
Daisy Service Station
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# Executive Order 1708

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Signed by President William H. Taft Thursday, February 20, 1913
1913 CSR 123
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to promote, transfer, and appoint Mr. Martin J. Murphy, now a sugar sampler in the office of the appraiser of merchandise at New York, to the position of clerk in that office, without compliance with the civil-service rules.
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    February 20, 1913.
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# Executive Order 171

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Revoked by Executive Order 8396, April 18, 1940
Signed by President Theodore Roosevelt Friday, April 25, 1902
Whereas the publication of alleged charges and criticisms against officers of the diplomatic and consular service, without an opportunity being given for due consideration of both sides of the questions at issue, has led to injustice to the persons attacked and to embarrassment to the Department of State in its disposition of the public business:
It is hereby ordered that hereafter no officer of the diplomatic or consular service of the United States shall attack, or prefer charges against, or publicly criticise, any other officer in either service, except in a communication to the Department of State.
Whenever any such officer deems that his duty compels him to prefer charges against any other officer in either service, he shall communicate such charges confidentially to the Department of State, which will, upon due consideration of all the circumstances, make such disposition of the case as in its discretion seems wise in the interest of the public business.
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       April 25, 1902.
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# Executive Order 1707

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John Fitzgerald was a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Signed by President William H. Taft Thursday, February 20, 1913
1913 CSR 123
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to promote and appoint Mr. John Fitzgerald, now an opener and packer in the office of the appraiser of merchandise at New York, to the position of merchandise sampler in the same office, without compliance with the civil-service rules.
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    February 20, 1913.
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# Executive Order 1709

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Supersedes Executive Order 1185, April 4, 1910.
Signed by President William H. Taft Thursday, February 20, 1913
1912 CSR 135
Paragraph 5, Subdivision III, of Schedule A of the civil service rules relating to the Treasury Department is hereby amended to read as follows:
This paragraph heretofore read:
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    February 20, 1913.
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# Executive Order 1711

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Signed by President William H. Taft Friday, February 21, 1913
1913 CSR 124
John S. Beach of New York may be reinstated as a clerk in the office of the disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions, Pension Office, without regard to the length of time he has been separated from the service.
The White House,
    February 21, 1913.
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# Executive Order 1712

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Revoked in part by Executive Order 10009, October 18, 1948. Revoked (authority repealed) by act of June 27, 1952 (66 Stat. 279).
Signed by President William H. Taft Monday, February 24, 1913
Whereas, by the act entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States," approved February 20, 1907, whenever the President is satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone, are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, it is made the duty of the President to refuse to permit such citizens of the country issuing such passports to enter the continental territory of the United States from such country or from such insular possession or from the Canal Zone;
And Whereas, upon sufficient evidence produced before me by the Department of Commerce and Labor, I am satisfied that passports issued by certain foreign governments to their citizens or subjects who are laborers, skilled or unskilled, to proceed to countries or places other than the continental territory of the United States, are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders thereof to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein;
I hereby order that such alien laborers, skilled or unskilled, be refused permission to enter the continental territory of the United States.
It is further ordered that the Secretary of Commerce and Labor be, and he hereby is, directed to take, through the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, such measures and to make and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry this order Into effect.
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    February 24, 1913.
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# Executive Order 1705

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Signed by President William H. Taft Tuesday, February 18, 1913
All artisans, citizens of the United States, who are now or may hereafter be in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission and who have rendered one year's satisfactory service on the Isthmus of Panama, and who may be recommended, upon discharge, for transfer, may be transferred within three years to corresponding positions in the classified service under the several Executive Departments and independent Government establishments, without examination, subject to the other provisions of the civil service rules.
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    February 18th, 1913.
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# Executive Order 1715

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Signed by President William H. Taft Tuesday, February 25, 1913
1913 CSR 124
Mr. John J. Farrell may be appointed a letter carrier in the Brooklyn, N. Y., post office without reference to the civil-service rules.
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    February 25, 1913.
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# Executive Order 1714

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Supersedes Executive Order 1185, April 4, 1910.
Signed by President William H. Taft Tuesday, February 25, 1913
1912 CSR 136
The 21 employees of the post-office service hereafter named who were holding the excepted position of private secretary which was abolished by the act of Congress approved August 24, 1912, making provision for the post-office service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, said act having created the competitive position of stenographer in lieu of the excepted one of private secretary, may be retained in the service but shall not acquire a competitive status until satisfactory evidence of their faithfulness and efficiency has been furnished by the Post Office Department to the Civil Service Commission:
    Richard H. Jackman, New York, N. Y.; Zoe Byrd Akins, St. Louis, Mo.; Frederick Oppikofer, Brooklyn, N. Y.; B. Cannon, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Jeremiah M. Carroll, San Francisco, Cal.; John Miller, Philadelphia, Pa.; Anna F. Drew, Minneapolis, Minn.; John P. Owen, Milwaukee, Wis.; Alonzo C. Winans, Los Angeles, Cal.; Annar T. Stolpestad, St. Paul, Minn.; Mary J. Starr, Denver, Colo.; Mary F. Stokes, Atlanta, Ga.; Emmie Perkins, New Orleans, La.; Louise Rogers Rogers, Portland, Oreg.; William M. Lewis, Des Moines, Iowa; Harry R. Worthington, Dallas, Tex.; James F. Pendleton, Richmond, Va.; Marian E. Barnes, Syracuse, N. Y.; Alice C. Barnes, Washington, D. C.; Grace B. Wise, Jacksonville, Fla.; Edna L. Stephens, Oakland, Cal.
Paragraph 3, Subdivision VII, Schedule A of the civil-service rules, excepting one private secretary or confidential clerk to the postmaster, if authorized by the Postmaster General, at each post office where the receipts of the last preceding fiscal year amounted to as much as $350,000, is hereby stricken out and the following paragraphs will be renumbered accordingly, the position of private secretary in the post-office service having ceased to exist.
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    February 25, 1913.
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# Executive Order 1710

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Signed by President William H. Taft Thursday, February 20, 1913
1913 CSR 123
Dr. David C. Hanawalt, who served as a veterinary inspector in the Bureau of Animal Industry from March 1, 1900, to October 15, 1910, when he resigned voluntarily, may be reinstated, the year limit fixed in the rules being waived, a comparatively short period having elapsed since his resignation.
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    February 20, 1913.
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# Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists/Fable CCCCXVII

Fab. CCCCXVII.
Two Laden Asses.
THere's an Old Story of Two Asses Travelling upon the Road, the One Laden with Oats, the other with Mony: The Mony-Merchant I Warrant ye, was so Proud of his Trust, and of his Bell, that he went Juking and Tossing of his Head, and Tabring with his Feet all the way, as if no Ground would hold him. The other Plodding on with his Nose in the Breech of his Leader, as Gravely as One Foot could follow another. While they were Jogging on thus upon the Way, out comes a Band of Highway-Men from the next Wood, and falls upon the Ass that carried the Treasure. They Beat, Wound and Rifle him, and so leave him, without so much as taking the least Notice of his Fellow. Well, (says the King's Ass,) and for all this Mischief I may e'en thank my Mony. Right, says the other; and it has been my Happiness that I was not thought worth the Robbing,
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
The Poor Peaceable Man has nothing to Fear, but does his Bus'ness, and takes his Rest, without the Trouble either of Thieves or of Alarums. ’Tis the Booty, not the Man, (save only for the Booty’s Sake,) that is in Danger. There's either Mony or Monys-worth, in all the Controversies of Life; for we live in a Mercenary World, and 'tis the Price, in some sort or other, of all things that are in it; but as it certainly draws Envy and Hazzard after it, so there are great Advantages go along with it, and great Blessings that attend the right use of it. And so for Poverty too; a narrow Fortune is undoubtedly a Cramp to a great Mind, and lays a Man under a Thousand Incapacities of serving either his Country or his Friend; but it has the Comforts yet of being free from the Cares and Perils that accompany great Masses of Treasure and Plentiful Estates. Beside, that the Virtue of a Generous and a Charitable Tenderness of Nature, is never the less Acceptable to him that takes the Will for the Deed, for want of Ability to put those good Inclinations in Execution. This Fable in short, makes good the old Saying,
# Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists/Fable CCCCXL and CCCCXLI

Fab. CCCCXL.
A Gard’ner and a Mole.
A Gard'ner took a Mole in his Grounds, and the Question was, whether he should put her to Death or no. The Mole Pleaded that she was one of his Family, and Digg’d his Garden for Nothing : Nay, she Insisted upon’t, what Pity ‘twas to Destroy a Creature that had so smooth a Skin, and Twenty other Little Pretences. Come, come, says the ​Gard'ner, I am not to be Fool'd with a Parcel of Fair VVords: You have Nothing for Digging ‘tis True; but pray who set you at VVork? Is it for my Service dye think, to have my Plants and my Herbs torn up by the Roots? And what's your bus'ness at last, but by doing all you can for the filling of your own Belly, to leave me nothing to Eat?
Fab.. CCCCXLI.
A Man and a Weazle.
THere was a Weazle taken in a Trapp, and whether she should Dye or not, was the Point: The Master of the House Charg’d her with heavy Misdemeanors, and the Poor Vermine stood much upon her Innocence and Merit. Why says she, I keep your House clear of Mice. Well, says the Man, but you do't for your Own sake, not for Mine. What work would they make in the Pantry and the Larder , (says she) if it were not for me? And in the mean time (says the Master of the House) You your Self devour the same things that they would have Eaten, Mice and All: But you would fain sham it upon me, that you do me a Service, when in Truth you do mean Injury; and therefore you deserve a double Death; First, For the Fault it self, and then for the Justification of it.
The Moral of the Two Fables above.
REFLEXION.
# Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists/Fable CCCCXV

Fab. CCCCXV.
An Ape Judge betwixt a Fox and a Wolf.
A Wolf charges a Fox with a piece of Pilfery. The Fox Denies it. The Ape tryes the Cause, and upon a fair Hearing, Pronounces them both to be Guilty. You (says the Judge to the Wolf,) have the Face to Challenge that which you never Lost; and you (says he to the Fox,) have the Confidence to Deny that which you have certainly Stoll'n.
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
This Fable tells us what Credit is to be given to Witnesses of a False and Lewd Conversation, and that a known Liar is of no Authority in a Judgment of Law, even when he speaks Truth. Where a race of Sharpers will be going to Law, none so fit as an Ape to try the Cause; and it was a Sentence worthy of such a Judge, to pronounce them both Guilty which in Equity they were, with a respect to their Character and Reputation; though in Law they could not be so, upon the Fact in Question. If the Ape in this Fable had too little regard to the Letter of the Law, we have seen some Cases where more stress has been laid upon the rigour and strictness of it, then Conscientiously did belong to't: For when one Man of an Exemplary Improbity, Charges another of the same Stamp, in a Court of a Justice, he lies under the Disadvantage of a strong Suspicion, even before he is Heard; and People are Prepar'd to Believe the Worst of him by Anticipation, and before his Case is Known. So that the Bare Prejudice is sufficient to turn the Scale, where it was Gold-weight before; unless we Ballance the Improbity of the one, with the Improbity of the other, as the Ape did here in the Fable.
We are to understand upon the whole matter, that it is more Advisable to give too Little Credit in a Court of Judicature to Men of Profligate Lives, then too Much: For 'tis a Scandal to Publick Justice, to make use of such Instruments for the Supporters of a State.
# Gems of Chinese Literature/Han Fei-Brutality v. Humanity

HAN FEI
[Died 233 b.c. A student of criminal law and procedure, who rose to distinction but incurred the enmity of a rival and was thrown into prison where he committed suicide. Fifty-five of his essays, in a more or less corrupt state, are still extant, and are especially valuable as containing many of the sayings attributed to Lao Tzŭ, woven later on, sometimes with portions of his own commentary, into the spurious work known as the Tao Tê Ching.]
Yo Yang was a general in the army of the Wei State. When he attacked Chung-shan, his son was in the beleagured city. The prince of Chung-shan boiled this son alive and sent some of the broth to his father, who received it sitting in his military headquarters and drank up a whole cupful. The marquis of Wei, speaking in commendation, said to an officer, “Yo Yang ate his son's flesh for my sake.” “If he ate his own son,” replied the officer, “who is there whom he would not eat?” When Yo Yang had captured Chung-shan, the marquis duly rewarded him, but became suspicious of his loyalty.
One day, when Mêng Sun was out hunting, a fawn was captured. Mêng Sun bade his huntsman put it on a cart and take it home; but the dam followed and bleated so piteously that the huntsman could not bear to be unkind to the animal, and let the fawn go. When they got home, Mêng Sun asked where the fawn was, and the huntsman said, “I could not bear to be so unkind, and I gave the fawn back to its dam.” Mêng Sun was furious at this, and dismissed the man from his service; but three months later he recalled him, and appointed him to be tutor to his son. Upon this, an official of the Court said, “Not long ago, you punished this man, and now you appoint him to be tutor to your son; how is this?” Mêng Sun replied, “If he cannot bear to be unkind to an animal, how will he bear to be unkind to my son?”
Therefore it is said that clever trickery is not equal to stupid sincerity. Yo Yang was rewarded and became an object of suspicion; the huntsman was punished and became more trusted than ever.