tion is based, at the same time prescribing a reasonable period within which a written answer and any desired evidence shall be submitted, such period to be not less than twenty-four hours after the actual receipt of the notification by the person recommended for removal. In the event of no response being received within the period prescribed, evidence of the receipt of the written notification, together with a certified copy of same, will be forwarded to the Civil Service Board. If reply has been received it will be similarly forwarded, with a certified copy of the notification mentioned, together with any other papers in the case, The Board will promptly forward, with comment and recommendation, all the papers in the case to this office for final action. If such action be approval of the recommendation to remove for cause, the person affected will be dropped from the rolls of his office as discharged on the day he was suspended, if such action shall have been taken by the head of the office to which he pertains; otherwise his discharge will be on the date of receipt by the head of the office in interest of the notification of the Civil Governor's approval. Our Go

(3) Under no circumstances shall a Civil Government official or employee so construe the provisions of any law now in force as to authorize or require the official publication of the cause of removal of any person from the Philippine Civil Service in more specific terms than, "For the good of the service."

II. In every instance of a tender of resignation by an official or employee occupying a position in the classified Philippine civil service, it shall be the duty of the officer authorized to act thereon, to accept or decline to accept the same in writing, and, if resignation be accepted, to clearly state the character of the services rendered by the person resigning and whether or not, in the light of present information, a possible future application for reinstatement would be favorably considered. In the event of a statement to the effect that such application would not be favorably considered, reasons therefor shall be stated and the person in interest informed that he may, should he so desire, submit a reply and such other evidence as he may elect in writing. When completed all the papers in the case will be forwarded to the Philippine Civil Service Board for file, except in case of objections to reinstate

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ment, in which event the papers will be forwarded by the Board with its recommendation for review and final action by this office. For obvious reasons no official or employee should be continued in the service who can not be recommended for reinstatement were he to resign.

III. Discourtesy to the public, to private individuals or to Government officials or employees, drunkenness, dishonesty, chronic or flagrant neglect of duty, notoriously disgraceful or immoral conduct, pursuit of private business enterprise to the detriment of official duties, or incompetency, shall be considered reasons demanding proceedings to remove for cause. Any official who knowingly continues in the public service a person guilty of any of the above named derelictions shall thereby render himself liable to removal from office for cause.

ISLANDS.

MANILA, P. I., May 13, 1902.

EXECUTIVE ORDER

No. 85.

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W. M. Tipton, Chief of the Bureau of Public Lands; Manuel de Iriarte, Chief of the Bureau of Archives, and Wilfred M. Taylor, Harbormaster, are hereby appointed a committee in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Two hundred and fifteen, United States Philippine Commission, for the purpose of investigating, reporting upon, fixing the responsibility for, and making recommendations concerning the present condition of certain public civil property for which J. S. Stanley, additional deputy collector, in charge insular customs accounts and property, is accountable.

LUKE E. WRIGHT,