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VOLUME 24

NUMBER 193

Washington, Friday, October 2, 1959

Title 3 THE PRESIDENT

Executive Order 10840

Executive Order 10839

DESIGNATING THE FEDERAL AVIA
TION AGENCY AS AN AGENCY TO
HAVE CERTAIN CONTRACTUAL AU
THORITY UNDER THE ASSIGNMENT
OF CLAIMS ACT OF 1940, AS
AMENDED

DESIGNATING CERTAIN OFFICERS TO
ACT AS SECRETARY OF STATE

By virtue of authority vested in me by section 179 of the Revised Statutes 5
U.S.C. 6, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:
In case of the death, resignation, ab sence, or sickness of the Secretary of State and the Under Secretary of State, the following-designated officers of the Department of State shall, in the order of succession indicated, act as Secretary of State until a successor is appointed or until the absence or sickness of the in cumbent shall cease:
1. Under Secretary of State for Polit ical Affairs or Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, as may be desig nated by the President pursuant to the act of July 30, 1959, 73 Stat. 266.
2. Deputy Under Secretaries of State, a in such order of succession as the Secretary of State -or the Under Secre tary of State when acting as Secretary may by order designate from time to time, or b if no such designation order is in effect at the time, in the order of the lengths of service as Deputy Under Secretaries.
3. Assistant Secretaries of State, a in such order of succession as the Secre tary of State or the Under Secretary of State when acting as Secretary may uy order designate from time to time, or b if no such designation order is in effect at th e time, in the order of the lengths of service as Assistant Secretaries.
The President may at any time, in pur suance of law but without regard to the oregoing provisions of this order, direct nat an officer specified by the President hall act as Secretary of State.
Executive Orjder No. 10791 of Novemer 2$, 1958, is hereby superseded.
D wight D. E isenhower T he W hite H ouse ,
September 30, 1959.
lp-R. Doc. 59-8377; Piled, Oct. 1, 1959;
12:30 p.m.

WHEREAS the Assignment of Claims Act of 1940 54 Stat. 1029 as amended by the act of May 15, 1951, 65 Stat. 41
31U.S.C. 203, contains the following provisions:
Any contract of the Department of De fense, the General Services Administration, the Atomic Energy Commission, or any other department or agency of the United States designated by the President, except any such contract under which full payment has been made, may, in time of war or national emer gency proclaimed by the President includ ing the national emergency proclaimed December 16, 1950 or by Act or joint resolu tion of the Congress and until such war or national emergency has been terminated in such manner, provide or be amended with out consideration to provide that payments to be made to the assignee of any moneys due or to become due under such contract shall not be subject to reduction or set-off, and if such provision or one to the nmA
general effect has been at any time hereto fore or is hereafter included or inserted in any such contract, payments to be made thereafter to an assignee of any moneys due or to become due under such contract, whether during or after such war or emer gency, shall not be subject to reduction or set-off for any liability of aiiy nature of the assignor to the United States or any depart ment or agency thereof which arises inde pendently of such contract, or hereafter for any liability, of the assignor on account of 1 renegotiation under any renegotiation statute or under any statutory renegotiation article in the contract, 2 fines, 3 penal ties which term does not include amounts which may be collected or withheld from the assignor in accordance with or for failure to comply with the terms of the contract, or 4 taxes, social security contributions, or the withholding or nonwithholding of taxes or social security contributions, whether arising from or independently of such con tract.

AND WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to make those provisibns applicable to the Fed eral Aviation Agency:
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aboveContinued on p. 7941

CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Executive Orders
Designating certain officers to act as Secretary of State_________
Designating the Federal Aviation Agency as an agency to have certain contractual authority under the Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, as amended______
Providing forthe carrying out of certain provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, relating to international coop eration_____________________

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7939

7939

7941

EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
Agricultural Marketing Service
Notices:
Market agencies at Kansas City stock yards; petition for modification of rate order__
Proposed rule making:
Milk in certain marketing areas:
North Central Iowa________
Upper Chesapeake Bay_____
Potatoes, Irish, grown in certain designated counties in Idaho and Malheur County, Oreg_

7969
7963
7964
7962

Agriculture Department
See Agricultural Marketing Serv ice; Commodity Stabilization Service; Farmers Home Admin istration.
Army Department
See Engineers Corps.
Atomic Energy Commission
Notices:
Licenses:
Allis-Chalmers Manufactur ing Co----------------------- Luigi Serra, Inc.___________

7969
7970

Civil Aeronautics Board
Notices:
Hearings, etc.:
Las Vegas Hacienda, Inc., and Henry F. Price__ ________ 7970
Rate of return local serv ice carriers__ ___________
7970
Trans-Caribbean A i r w a y s , Inc ___________________ 7971
Civil and Defense Mobilization Office
Notices:
Transistors and related prod ucts; investigation of imports 7973
7939