Mr. Edward C. Baker, who has served as American vice-consul and marshal of the Consular Court at Foochow, China, and in a similar capacity at Amoy, and who has recently taken a thorough examination to test his qualifications for promotion in the Consular Service, may be appointed as a clerk of class 3 in the Department of State, where his services are needed because of his special knowledge of affairs in the Far East.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House

January 28, 1909.

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