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REGISTER

FEDERAL
VOLUME 5

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1934 y C Í/A/1TEO

NUMBER 45

Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 1940
The President EXECUTIVE ORDER
R ules
P recedence R elating to F or eign S ervice O fficers and O ther O fficers of the U nited S tates G ov
of
ernment
By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1752 of the Revised Stat utes of the United States 22 U.S.C., sec. 132, and as President of the United States of America, I hereby prescribe the following rules governing preced ence as between officers of the Foreign Service of the United States and officers or accredited representatives of other Executive departments or establish ments of the United States Govern ment:
1. In the country to which he is ac credited, the chief of the diplomatic mis sion shall take precedence over all o f ficers or accredited representatives of other Executive departments or estab lishments.
2. In the absence of the titular head of the mission, the chargé daffaires ad interim shall take precedence over all officers or accredited representatives of other Executive departments or estab lishments.
3. Counselors shall take place and pre cedence next in succession after the chief of mission.
4. Military and naval attachés shall take place and precedence next in suc cession after the counselor of embassy or legation, or at a post where the De partment of State has deemed it un necessary to assign a counselor, after the senior secretary. Military and naval at tachés shall take precedence among themselves according to their respective grades and seniority therein.
5. Foreign Service officers designated as attachés shall take precedence among Federal Service officers according to their respective grades and seniority therein, or as the Secretary of State
may direct; but they shall take place and precedence with but after military and naval attachés, except when the pro visions of section 12 hereof are appli cable and such Foreign Service officers are also assigned as diplomatic secre taries.
6. Treasury attachés shall take place and precedence with but after military, naval, commercial, and agricultural at tachés.
7. Assistant military and naval at tachés shall take place and precedence next after second secretaries. Assistant military and naval attachés shall take precedence among themselves according to their respective grades and seniority therein.
8. Foreign Service officers designated as assistant attachés shall take preced ence among Foreign Service officers ac cording to their respective grades and seniority therein, or as the Secretary of State may direct; but they shall take place and precedence with but after as sistant military and naval attachés, ex cept when the provisions of section 12
hereof are applicable and such Foreign Service officers are also assigned as dip lomatic secretaries.
9. Assistant treasury attachés shall take place and precedence with but after assistant military, naval, commercial, and agricultural attachés.
10. No extra rank or precedence shall be conferred upon a military, naval, ma rine, or Foreign Service officer because of his duties as attaché to a diplomatic mission.
11. A t ceremonies and receptions where the members of the mission take indi vidual position, and in the lists furnished Iforeign governments for inclusion in ! their diplomatic lists, place and preced! enee shall follow the ranking indicated in the preceding sections.
12. At ceremonies and receptions where the personnel of diplomatic missions are present as a body, the chief of mission, or chargé daffaires ad interim, accom panied by all Foreign Service officers as-

CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Executive Orders:
Alaska, partial revocation of land withdrawal__________
Arizona, revocation of land withdrawal________________
Civil Service Rules, amend ments:
Rule n , section 6, application of second proviso________
Schedule B, classified posi tions, Custodian Service and at Coast Guard De pot, Curtis Bay, Md______
Foreign Service, administration under Reorganization Plan H ________________________
Foreign Service officers, etc., rules of precedence________
Minnesota, revocation of land withdrawal________________
South Dakota, amendment of land withdrawal for graz ing project--------------------

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RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T itle 7 A griculture :

Sugar Division:
Farming practice, S t a t e s other than California, sugar beet production, crop year 1940__________
T itle 16 C ommercial P ractices:
Federal Trade Commission:
Sekine, I., Co., Inc., cease and desist order______________
T itle 17 C ommodity and S ecuri ties
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E xchanges :

Securities and Exchange Com mission :
Finanpial statements, form and content of, adoption of Regulation S -X _______
Amendment of rule adopting Regulation S -X _________
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