Executive Order 1099

James M. Alexander, of Los Angeles, a colored man, may be appointed as cashier under the collector for the Sixth Internal-Revenue District of California, without respect to the civil-service regulations. This order is made because of the intention of President Roosevelt to make it at the time the district was created, but he was unable to carry out his intention because there was not sufficient money available until the beginning of the new fiscal year to organize the office. The ground upon which President Roosevelt intended to make the order was that Mr. Alexander was a colored man, that the colored population of California had not been properly recognized, and that the collector of the new district was greatly desirous of having a man appointed in whose fidelity and capacity for the discharge of the particular position he had great confidence by reason of a personal acquaintance.

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 * June 28, 1909.