Executive Order 2662

Mrs. Mary C. Bryan may be appointed to an appropriate position in the Department of Labor in connection with problems arising out of the enforcement of the new immigration law.

It appears that Mrs. Bryan, who was selected by the Bureau of Immigration to care for alien women who were deported abroad, demonstrated her peculiar fitness for that part of the department's work which relates to the deportation of alien women, especially those requiring special care and attention, on one occasion delivering an insane patient safely to her destination abroad under such trying and difficult circumstances that she was highly complimented by the American consul. It appears that there is a real necessity for a competent and experienced woman in connection with the detention and deportation of this class of aliens.

There is no appropriate existing register of eligibles.

The commission concurs in a recommendation for the order.

Woodrow Wilson.⁠

The White House,

11 July, 1917.