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Executive Orders Historical Archive
Official portrait of William McKinley
25th President
Republican Terms: 1897-1901

William McKinley

Orders Tracked
117
Avg Words / Order
203
Avg Read Time
~1 min
Avg Sentiment
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Youngstown Separation of Powers

1952 Standard

Distribution of orders across Justice Jackson's constitutional tiers:

25.6%
Zone 1 (30)
Statutory Authorization
72.6%
Zone 2 (85)
Zone of Twilight
1.7%
Zone 3 (2)
Lowest Ebb / Friction
Washington Rate Multiplier: 29.3× Washington Baseline

Executive Orders Issued (117)showing the 30 most recent

Order Aug 29, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

In accordance with provisions of Section 179 Revised Statutes as amended by act approved August 5th, 1882 (22 Stats. at large 238), Brigadier-General G. S. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, is authorized and directed to perform the duties of Secretary of War…

William McKinley
College Level • 1m
Order Aug 27, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The Executive Order of Jan. 4th, 1901, reserve for light house purposes among other tracts of land or cites in the District of Alaska a tract described as follows: "Scotch Cap beginning at a point at low water mark, said point being three miles easterly of point at low water…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Aug 20, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

All tracts and parcels of land belonging to the United States situated on the Peninsula extending into the harbor on the south side of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as Barrio de la Puntilla, or Puntilla Point, bounded on the north by the south boundary of the Paseo…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Aug 19, 1901
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

So much of the Executive Order of December 28, 1898 as fixes the rates at which the Spanish Alphonsino (centem) and the French Louis shall be accepted in payment of customs, taxes, public and postal dues in the Island of Cuba is modified to read as follows: Alphonsino (25…

William McKinley
High School • 1m
Order Jul 24, 1901
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

To the Secretary of the Treasury. SIR:--I herewith allot and set apart the funds now remaining in the Treasury of the United States as a separate fund raised from duties and taxes collected in the United States under the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An act…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jun 29, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Township twenty-two (22) south, range nine (9) east, and township twenty-three (23) south, range nine (9) east, Willamette meridian, Oregon, within the limits of the Cascade Range Forest Reservation be restored to the public Domain after sixty days' notice hereof by publication…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jun 25, 1901
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

The tracts hereinafter described and situated within the limits of the Big Horn Forest Reservation in the State of Wyoming be restored to the public domain after sixty days' notice hereof by publication as required by law, these tracts having been found better adapted to…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jun 25, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The executive order of April 5, 1901, is hereby amended by striking out the word "Filipinos" and inserting in its stead "natives of the Islands of the Philippines and of the Island of Guam." WILLIAM MCKINLEY

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jun 21, 1901
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

The existing boundary line between Coeur d'Alene and Lewiston Land Districts, State of Idaho, be and it is hereby changed and re-established as follows: Beginning on the boundary line between the States of Idaho and Washington at the northwest corner of directional township…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jun 21, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

To the Secretary of War: SIR: -- Pending the cessation of conditions requiring a continuance of Military Government in the Philippine Islands, you are authorized to make the following order: On and after the 4th day of July, 1901 until it shall otherwise be ordered, the…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jun 21, 1901
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Executive Order dated May 3, 1899, be amended so as to authorize the appointment of civilians as Collectors of Customs in the Philippine Archipelago. WILLIAM MCKINLEY

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jun 10, 1901
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

To the Secretary of the Treasury. Sir:--The sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as remains unexpended, allotted and set aside by order of April 23, 1901, from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government of Puerto Rico by the act of March 24, 1900…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Jun 7, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Commandants to man the following: An Admiral to man a fleet. Rear-Admiral to man a fleet or squadron. A Captain to man a division, or ship of the first or second rating or a ship not rated. Commander to man a division or a ship of the second or third rating or ship not rated.

William McKinley
Grade 8 • 1m
Order Jun 7, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

The following "Classification of Vessels" and "Assignments to man afloat" are hereby established for the Navy in accordance with an act of Congress, approved March 3: CLASSIFICATION OF VESSELS.

William McKinley
College Level • 1m
Order Apr 29, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

In case of the death, resignation, absence or sickness of the Secretary of the Navy, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Rear Admiral Charles O'Neil, U. S. Navy and Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance is, in pursuance. of the provisions of…

William McKinley
College Level • 1m
Order Apr 23, 1901
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

To the Secretary of the Treasury. SIR:--The sum of five hundred thousand dollars is hereby allotted and set aside from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government of Puerto Rico by the act of March 24th, 1900 (31 Stat., p. 51), to be expended for public and permanent…

William McKinley
College Level • 1m
Order Apr 15, 1901
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

The tracts hereinafter described and situated in township fifty-eight (58) north, range eighty-nine (89) west, within the limits of the Big Horn Forest reserve, in the State of Wyoming, be restored to the public domain after sixty days' notice hereof by publication, as required…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Apr 6, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Upon Tuesday the ninth (9th) instant such employees of the Executive Departments; the Government Printing Office and the Navy Yard and Station at Washington, as served in the Military or Naval services of the United States in the late Civil War or Spanish-American War, shall be…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Apr 5, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enlist in the Insular Forte United States Navy, which is hereby established, not to exceed five hundred (500) Filipinos in the following ratings at the rates of pay indicated: RATES ------------------------------- MONTHLY PAY.

William McKinley
Grade 8 • 1m
Order Apr 2, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

All of Amaknam Island, District of Alaska, except the tract of land reserved for light-house purposes by executive order of Jan. 13th, 1899, and the tract of land embraced in amended survey M 58 of the North American Commercial Co. be, and it is hereby reserved for public…

William McKinley
High School • 1m
Order Mar 30, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The hereinafter described tracts of land in the District of Alaska be, and they are hereby reserved and set apart for Reindeer stations, subject to any legal existing rights to any land in the limits of the reservation hereby established, to wit: I. The entire peninsula of…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Mar 26, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

The unsurveyed portion of Eliza Island and Billingham Bay in section five (5), township thirty-six (36) north, range two (2) East Willamette meridian, Washington be, and it is hereby reserved for light-house purposes. WILLIAM MCKINLEY

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Mar 25, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Counsular officers will hereafter collect any fees for bills of health and supplemental bills of health issued foreign war vessels. The tariff of Consular fees is amended accordingly. WILLIAM MCKINLEY

William McKinley
High School • 1m
Order Mar 22, 1901
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

To the Secretary of the Treasury. Sir:--The sum of six thousand dollars is hereby allotted and set apart from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government of Puerto Rico by the Act of March 24, 1900 (131 Stat., p. 51) to be expended by the Treasurer of Puerto Rico upon…

William McKinley
College Level • 1m
Order Mar 14, 1901
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

To the Secretary of the Treasury. Sir:--The sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby allotted and set apart from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government of Puerto Rico by the Act of March 24, 1900 (31 Stat., p. 51) to be expended in improving and grading of…

William McKinley
High School • 1m
Order Mar 12, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

During the maintenance of Military Government by the United States in the Island of Cuba there is hereby created and shall be maintained the office of the Auditor for Cuba, to be filled by appointment of the Secretary of War, whose duties shall be to receive and audit all…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Mar 11, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

The within recommendation is approved. The Secretary of the Interior will cause this action to be noted on the records of the General Land Office. WILLIAM MCKINLEY

William McKinley
High School • 1m
Order Mar 9, 1901
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.33)

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Secretary of War: Recommends modification of executive order of June 4, 1892, setting apart a wood reservation for the post of Fort Fill, Oklahoma Territory, so as to make the eastern boundary coincident with the new 98 meridian (the boundary line between the Kiowa and Comanche…

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
Order Mar 9, 1901
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

The States of North Dakota and South Dakota, now part of the Internal Revenue District of Nebraska, shall be detached from said District of Nebraska and constitute one District, to be known as the Internal Revenue District of Newark, South Dakota.

William McKinley
College Level • 1m
Order Mar 8, 1901
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

The export rates of duty on tobacco, provided on page 50 of the "Customs Tariff for Ports in the Island of Cuba" promulgated by Executive Order dated March 31, 1900, shall be abolished on the 1st day of April, 1901. WILLIAM MCKINLEY

William McKinley
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
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