Chapter 27.
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CHAP. 27.— Joint Resolution Amending the Act of July second, nineteen hundred and nine, governing the holding of civil service examinations. March 27, 1918.[[S. J. Res. 117](/us/bill/65/sjres/117).][[Pub. Res., No. 24](/us/bill/65/pubres/24).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of July second, Civil service examinations.Applicants for positions may be examined in District of Columbia during the war.Vol. 36, p. 3, amended.nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, Numbered One), is hereby amended so as to permit the United States Civil Service Commission, during the period of the present war, to hold examinations of applicants for positions in the Government service in the District of Columbia, and to permit applicants from the several States and Territories of the United States to take said examinations in the said District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States where examinations are usually held.
Said examinations shall be permitted in addition to those required to be held by said Act of July second, nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, Numbered One): *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be so construed *Proviso*.Apportionment, etc., unchanged.as to abridge the existing law of apportionment or change the requirements of existing law as to legal residence and domicile of such applicants. Approved, March 27, 1918.