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FEDERAL
VOLUME 7

REGISTER
1934
-W a n t e d

NUMBER 71

Washington, Saturday, April 11, 1942
The President EXECUTIVE ORDER 9126
T ransferring C ognizance of the D u ties and F unctions of the H ydrographic O ffice and the N aval O bservatory F rom the B ureau o r N avigation, N avy D epartment, to the C h ief of N aval O perations
By virtue of the authority vested in me by Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, approved December 18,1941 Public Law 354,77th Congress, and for the more effective exercise and more efficient ad ministration of my powers as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, it is hereby ordered as follows:
1. The duties and functions of the Hy drographic Office and Naval Observatory, Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, are hereby transferred to the cognizance and jurisdiction of the Chief of Naval Operations under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy.
2. All personnel, together with the whole of the records and public property now under the cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation in the Hydrographic Office and the Naval Observatory are assigned and transferred to the Office of Chief of Naval Operations.
F ranklin D R oosevelt T he W hite H ouse ,
April 8, 1942.
F. R. Doc. 42-3179; Filed, April 9, 1942;
2:41 p. m.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 9127
D esignating the D epartments and A gen
cies to I nspect the P lants and A udit the B ooks and R ecords of D efense C ontractors U nder T itle X H I of the S econd W ar P owers A ct, 1942

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and particularly by Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, and Title XIII of the Second War Powers Act, 1942, as President of the United States
and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and in order to prevent the accumulation of unreasonable profits, to avoid waste of Government funds, and to implement other measures which have been under taken to forestall price rises and infla tion, it is hereby ordered as follows:
1. I hereby designate the War Pro duction Board, the War Department, the Navy Department, the Treasury Depart ment, the United States Maritime Com mission, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as the governmental agen cies authorized to inspect the plant and to audit the books and records, as pro vided by Title XHI of the said Second War Powers Act, 1942. Such inspection and a u d i t and the determination whether a given contract is a defense contract, as defined in Title x m of the Second War Powers Act, 1942, may be made in the case of a any contractor with whom a defense contract has been placed by such agency, or, in the case of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, by any corporation created or organized by it, at any time after the declaration of emergency on September 8, 1939, and before the termination of the present war, and in the case of b any subcon tractor performing work required by any such defense contract.N The Chairman of the War Production Board is author ized to issue rules and regulations and to establish policies to coordinate and govern the War Department, the Navy Department, the Treasury Department, the United States Maritime Commission, and the Reconstruction Finance Corpo ration in exercising the functions vested in them by this order.
2. The authority herein conferred may be exercised by the Chairman of the War Production Board, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury, the United States Mari time Commission, and the Board of Di rectors of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, respectively, or in their dis cretion and by their direction, respec tively, may be exercised also by and through any officer or officers or civilian officials of their respective departments and agencies designated by them for
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THE PRESIDENT
Executive Orders:
Designating the Departments and Agencies to inspect the plants and audit the books and records of defense con tractors ________________
Transferring cognizance of the duties and functions of the Hydrographic Office and Naval Observatory from the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, to the Chief of Naval Operations________
RULES REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T itle 7A griculture :
Sugar Service:
Sugar beets, wage rates for 1942 crop____ ________
T itle 10A r m y : W ar D epartment :
Enlisted Reserve Corps, suspen sion of enlistments______
T itle 14 C ivil A viation :
Civil Aeronautics Board:
Eastern Air Lines authorized , to operate into Baton Rouge Airport_________
Pilot certificates, flight area limitations____________
T itle 16C ommercial P ractices:
Federal Trade Commission:
Indianapolis Soap Co., et al., cease and desist order_
T itle 25I n d ia n s :
Office of Indian Affairs:
Grazing regulations amended______________
T itle 30M ineral R esources :
Bituminous Coal Division:
District 4, minimum price schedule amended_____
T itle 32 N ational D efe n se :
Office qf Price Administration:
Chemicals; lithopone_______
Coke:
Beehive oven furnace, Penn sylvania_____________
By-product foundry and blast furnace________
Electrical appliances, do mestic ________________
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