August 26, 1905
The requirement that a person proposed for transfer must have actually served in the classified service at least six months next preceding the transfer may be waived in the case of the transfer of W. E. Lackland from the Treasury Department to the Post-Office at Prescott, Arizona.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Theodore Roosevelt, Executive Order Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206632