Executive Order 2746

Mr. William P. Henshaw may be appointed as clerk in the Panama Canal service and may be transferred to a classified position in the United States without reference to the civil-service rules.

This order Is Issued on the recommendation of both the Secretary of War and the Governor of the Panama Canal. It appears that Mr. Henshaw was first appointed as clerk in the Panama Canal service on October 16, 1905, without examination in the absence of eligibles, with the approval of the United States Civil Service Commission. He has served continuously since then, with the exception of one year's absence from the Isthmus, in the responsible capacities of accountant, receiving teller, bookkeeper, and pay clerk, rendering excellent service and showing a thorough knowledge of accounting and bookkeeping as applied to Government work.

Mr. Henshaw has been unable to attain a classified status in the usual manner by entering a competitive civil-service examination on the Isthmus, on account of being beyond the maximum age limit required for entrance to such examinations.

Woodrow Wilson 

The White House,

November 2, 1917.