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REGISTER
VOLUME 11

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A i/ T E O

NUMBER 24

Washington, Saturday, February 2, 1946
T h e P r e s id e n t
tor, who shall be appointed by the Presi dent by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive a EXECUTIVE ORDER 9689
salary at the rate of $12,900 per annum unless the Congress shall otherwise pro C o n s o lid a tio n of S u r p l u s P r o pe r ty vide, and part of domestic surplus property dis 4. There shall be transferred to the posa., and the State Department is now agencies to which functions are trans vested with the major part o f foreign sur ferred by this order so much as the Di plus property disposal; and rector of the Bureau of the Budget shall WHEREAS, after a reasonable perioc determine to relate primarily to such in which to make necessary administra functions, respectively, of the records, tive arrangements, it will be feasible anc administrative property, personnel, and desirable to establish a W ar Assets Ad funds of the Surplus Property Admin ministration as a separate agency di istration, the Office of W ar Mobilization rectly responsible to the President to ex and Reconversion, the Reconstruction ercise consolidated functions relating tc Finance Corporation, and the War Assets the disposal o f domestic surplus prop Corporation. A il authorizations, com erty;
mitments, or other obligations incurred NOW THEREFORE, by virtue of the as a disposal agency by the Reconstruc authority vested in me by the Constitu tion Finance Corporation or by the W ar tion and Statutes, including T itle I of the Assets Corporation under the Surplus First War Powers Act, 1941 55 Stat. 838
Property Adt of 1944 shall be transferred and as President of the United States, it to the W ar Assets Administration upon is hereby ordered as follows:
its establishment.
5. There shall he subject to the Classi 1- The functions of the Surplus Prop fication Act of 1923, as amended, those erty Administrator and of the Surplus positions transferred to the War Assets Property Administration are hereby Corporation hereunder which are now transferred, except as otherwise provided subject to the said Act, and also all posi herein, to the chairman of the board of tions transferred to the W ar Assets Ad directors of the War Assets Corporation, ministration hereunder; provided that and to the W ar Assets Corporation, re if the salary of the incumbent o f any po spectively, and the Surplus Property Ad sition so transferred to,the said Admin ministration shall be deemed merged istration is above the maximum of the into and consolidated with the W ar As sets Corporation.
allocated grade such salary shall not be e All functions of the Surplus Prop reduced so long as the position is held erty Administrator and the Surplus Prop by the incumbent. The provisions o f erty Administration which relate to sur section 1 hereof notwithstanding, the plus property located outside the conti respective accounting and fiscal pro nental United States, Hawaii, Alaska in cedures in effect with respect to the cluding the Aleutian Islands, Puerto functions merged shall continue in effect Kico, and the Virgin Islands are trans from February 1,1946 to March 25,1946.
ferred to the Secretary of State and the 6. Such further measures and dispo Department o f State, respectively.
3.
Effective March 25, 1946 a there sitions as may be determined by the Di rector of the Bureau o f the Budget to be shall be established, in the Office for necessary to effectuate the transfers pro Emergency Management of the Execu vided for in this order shall be carried tive Office o f the President, a W ar Assets out in such manner as the Director may Administration at the head of which there shall be a W ar Assets Administra Continued on p. 1267