Executive Order 679

The White House, August 12, 1907.

Mr. A. J. Robinson, who has had more than four years of service in a civil capacity with the United States Army beyond the seas, with the exception of three periods of leave due to sickness on account of the trying character of his work in China and the Philippines, and who failed to receive classification under the Executive order of November 18, 1901, by reason of the fact that be was serving in Luzon at the time instead of on a home station, may be classified as train-master in the Quartermaster's Department at Large.

In similar cases of exceptional merit where an employee has had a long and faithful service in a civil capacity beyond the seas, under conditions such that his appointment and services were not in contravention of the civil service rules or Executive orders, he may be classified by the Department, with the approval of the Civil Service Commission.

Theodore Roosevelt.