Executive Order 665

Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered :

1. Offices for the convenient execution of its business within the United States shall be maintained by the Isthmian Canal Commission in Washington.
   
   
2. The following officers and employees of the Commission and their necessary force of assistants shall be provided with quarters therein: the General Counsel, General Purchasing Officer, Disbursing Officer in the United States, Assistant Examiner of Accounts, Appointment Clerk, Chief of Record Division, and Chief Draftsman.
   
   
3. The General Purchasing Officer shall provide the necessary offices and their appointments, and shall have general charge and custody of the same and of the discipline of the clerical force. Appointments in the United States of Commission employees shall be made by him, subject to the rules of the civil service law and of the Commission. He shall have charge of the records and archives of the offices, and of the distribution of correspondence.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House, August 15, 1907.