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On the recordJanuary 26, 1905
The appointment of Mr. E. W. Libbey as telegraph and telephone operator, at $1,000 per annum, in the Department of Commerce and Labor, on July 13, 1903, is approved, and he may be continued in the service without examination under the Civil-Service rules.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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