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On the recordMarch 3, 1904
Mr. Merrit O. Chance may be transferred from clerk to the Secretary of War to superintendent of post-office supplies in the Post-Office Department without taking a noncompetitive examination.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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