Executive Order 1226

Those persons who were employed on June 30, 1910, or within the year preceding, as district agents and assistant district agents (local representatives of the Secretary of the Interior in Oklahoma), and who are certified by the Secretary of the Interior as competent and efficient may be retained, but shall not by such retention obtain a competitive status; and all vacancies which may occur in said positions shall be filled by the transfer of persons properly serving in the Indian Service under the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes or in the Union Agency.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

July 12, 1910.