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Executive Order 609 (1907)
by President of the United States

Ordering Four Hour Workdays on Saturdays During Summer for Certain War Department Employees623128

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See Executive Order 470, June 29, 1906, and Executive Order 484, July 24, 1906.

Signed by President Theodore Roosevelt Thursday, April 4, 1907

General Orders, No. 82, War Dept., April 10, 1907

623128Executive Order 609 — Ordering Four Hour Workdays on Saturdays During Summer for Certain War Department Employees6231281907President of the United States

It is hereby ordered that on Saturdays during July, August, and September, until further notice, four hours exclusive of time for luncheon shall constitute a day's work for mechanics, laborers, and other employees in the civil service at the manufacturing and supply arsenals and depots under the War Department, and in the offices of the division and department commanders and of the various staff officers at military, division, and department headquarters of the Army, and in the Engineer Department at Large, in the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House,

April 4, 1907.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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