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This letter concerns a resolution about discontinuing appointments into the Navy's Corps of Engineers.
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy Department
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy Department
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This letter concerns a resolution about discontinuing appointments into the Navy's Corps of Engineers.
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Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary Family Collection
Letters and Telegrams Received
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COPY.
Navy Department
Washington, November 10th, 1897.
Siro
Before a Board appointed by the Secretary of the Navy to
consider the matter of a reorganization of the personel of the
Navy, a resolution has been offered to declare it the sense of
the Board that no further appointments be made into the Corps of
Civil Engineers
You are hereby notified to appear before the Board, and submit
your views of the matter, if you so desire. It also desired that
engineers within or without the service who may be interested in
the matter shall be present to give their views.
The Board will be in session on Monday, November 22d,1897
at the Navy Department Washington, Dgeo
Respectfully
Theodore Roosevelt,
Assistant Secretary
Chief of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Navy Department.