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Executive Orders, Proclamations, Memoranda
Issued by President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt - 1901-1908


1901 - Roosevelt, Theodore
Executive Orders

  • SEP23 - Black Mesa Forest Reserve, Colo., diminished, and described lands restored to the public domain
  • OCT15 - Ratings and pay per month for petty officers and enlisted men
  • OCT30 - Harbor Island, Alaska
  • NOV9 - Provinces of Zambales and Bataan, in the Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands placed under the governance and control of the Navy Department
  • NOV11 - San Bernardino base and meridian, California, reserved for lighthouse purposes
  • NOV14 - Navajo Reservation
  • NOV15 - San Nicolas Island, California, reserved for lighthouse purposes
  • NOV26 - Enlisted Navy men allowed additional monthly pay for good conduct
  • DEC3 - Enlisted Navy men holding petty officers training certificates allowed additional pay
  • DEC9 - Classification and monthly pay of Navy mess attendants authorized
  • DEC19 - Culebra Island placed under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department

1902 - Roosevelt, Theodore
Executive Orders

  • JAN31 - Employees are forbidden to solicit increase in pay
  • FEB15 - Office of Surveyor-General transferred to Tucson, Arizona
  • MAR24 - Amending Counsular Regulations of 1896
  • MAR26 - Fort Yuma Abandoned Military Reservation, Arizona, reserved and set apart for the use of the Weather Bureau
  • APR29 - Fort Yuma Abandoned Military Reservation, Arizona, reserved and set apart for the Customs Service
  • APR30 - Land in San Bernardino, California, reserved for light-house purposes
  • MAY12 - Excused from duty on Saturday, the 17th instant, to attend the ceremonies incident to the reburial of the late Major-General W. S. Rosecrans
  • MAY12b- Employees excused from duty to participate in the ceremonies incident to the dedication of a statue erected to the memory of the Spanish War dead at Arlington
  • JUN13 - Willamette Washington, reserved and set apart for the use of the Navy Department for the purpose of a target range
  • JUN13b- Boundaries of the Wakeeney land district and the Colby land district Kansas, re-established
  • JUL3 - Appointments of all unclassified laborers
  • JUL10 - Applications for discharge
  • JUL19 - Issuance of passports
  • JUL22 - Reserve public lands and buildings in the Island of Puerto Rico
  • JUL25 - Promote the efficiency of the Revenue Cutter Service
  • AUG1 - Pay increase
  • AUG9 - Land set apart in Nebraska for experimental tree planting

1903 - Roosevelt, Theodore
Executive Orders

  • MAR26 - Regulations governing appointments
  • MAR27 - Land office moved
  • MAR28 - Land office moved
  • MAY29 - Land office moved
  • JUL3 - Transfer of Charles B. Terry
  • JUL8 - Age removed from regulations governing employment
  • JUL13 - Appoint to various positions
  • JUL29 - Mrs. Annie M. West and Mrs. Sadie B. Yates may be reinstated
  • JUL30 - Appoint Luther M. Walter to position of law clerk
  • JUL31 - Moapa River or Paiute Indian Reservation, Nevada
  • AUG9 - Mrs. Julia W. Wellborn may be appointed Clerk
  • AUG17 - Allen Hazen, continued employment
  • AUG20 - Dr. William A. White may be appointed
  • SEP15 - Camp McDowell military reservation
  • OCT9 - Clarence A. Cook may be appointed special agent
  • OCT23 - Mrs. Lillian B. Kellogg may be reinstated
  • NOV2 - Mrs. Roy L. Quackenbush, may be given permanent appointment
  • DEC4 - Mr. Francis L. Hawes, may be appointed a special agent
  • DEC28 - Mrs. Frank L. Harrigan may be reinstated

1904 - Roosevelt, Theodore
Executive Orders

  • JAN7 - Mrs. G. W. Shipman appointed clerk Office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General
  • JAN25 - Restore land tract to public domain (Sioux)
  • FEB1 - Mrs. Kate L. Croggan may be reinstated
  • FEB5 - Revoke employment of Cuba military government employ
  • FEB20 - Modifies and amends order of January 25, 1904 (Sioux)
  • FEB25 - Mr. Francis Walker, may be appointed a special agent
  • FEB27 - Mrs. Marie L. Baldwin, may be certified for appointment as clerk
  • MAR1 - civil service of the War Department in the Philippines, will be treated as classified under the civil-service rules
  • MAR4 - Mr. Merrit O. Chance transferred to superintendent of post-office supplies
  • MAR10 - Officials of government to refain from comments on pending war between Russia and Japan
  • MAR26 - Physicians employed in the Indian service
  • MAY18 - Katherine C. Masterson may be reinstated
  • MAY26 - Mr. I. B. Conklin may be appointed as special laborer (clerk)
  • JUN2 - Grand Forks land district, North Dakota, transferred to Devils Lake
  • JUN13 - Reinstatement in the classified service
  • JUN17 - Mr. Samuel D. Amen to the position of internal-revenue agent.
  • JUN23 - Dr. William L. Ralph as curator of the section of birds' eggs in the National Museum
  • JUN24 - Clarence Reeder appointed secretary to the Director of the Geological Survey
  • NOV15 - Isthmian Canal Commission classified
  • NOV29 - Employment by the Executive Department under civil-service rules
  • NOV29B- Substitute watchmen classified under the civil-service rules

1905 - Roosevelt, Theodore

  • MAR10 - Navajo Reservation
  • MAY15 - Navajo Reservation

1907 - Roosevelt, Theodore

  • NOV9 - Navajo Reservation

1908 - Roosevelt, Theodore

  • JAN28 - Navajo Reservation
  • DEC30 - Navajo Reservation