Executive Order 1101

The Department of Agriculture having requested the appointment of John R. Bowie as publicity agent, and the United States Civil Service Commission being advised that the duties of the place are of such an exceptional nature that an examination by the Commission would not necessarily disclose the best qualified applicant, and the department haying stated that after a year of service Mr. Bowie has discharged to the entire satisfaction of the department the duties of the position to which his appointment is asked; that the duties consist in the selection and synthesizing of the most valuable matter for public use from among all the researches and operations of the Bureau of Soils and preparing the result of such work in the most useful and attractive form, and securing its publication in the best organs for the dissemination of the information to the farming classes, which are the ones to be benefited; and upon the recommendation of the Civil Service Commission, concurring in the request of the department, Mr. John R. Bowie may be appointed as a publicity agent in the Bureau of Soils in the Department of Agriculture, but subject to the limitations of the civil-service rules as to transfer and promotion.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

June 29, 1909.