Code, and by section 533 of the Veterans' Benefit Act of 1957 as added by section 2 of the said Act approved this day, the authority conferred upon the President by part D of Title V of the Veterans' Benefit Act of 1957, is hereby delegated to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, subject to the following:

(1) The Secretary of State shall negotiate the required agreement with the Philippine Government. It is my wish that you cooperate with the Department of State in its negotiations.

(2) At such time as the agreement with the Philippine Government has been consummated, please submit to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget for approval the rules and regulations prescribed by you under the authority of section 533 of the Veterans' Benefit Act of 1957 as affected by the delegation made hereinabove.

As you know, the law provides that a contract must be entered into before July 1, 1958, if it is to be effective at all. It is, therefore, desired that, subject to reasonable safeguards, the Veterans Administration take all possible steps to hasten the consummation of the necessary agreement and contract for the provision of these medical services.

This letter shall be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

Sincerely yours,

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Honorable SUMNER G. WHITTIER, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, Veterans' Administration, Washington 25, D. C.

LETTER OF NOVEMBER 13, 1958

[U. S. PARTICIPATION IN WORLD SCIENCEPAN PACIFIC EXPOSITION, SEATTLE, WASH., 1961]

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, November 13, 1958. DEAR MR. SECRETARY:

Pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of Public Law No. 85-880, approved September 2, 1958 (72 Stat. 1703), I hereby designate the Department of Commerce as the Department through which the President shall cooperate with the Washington State World Fair Commission with respect to, and determine the extent to which the United States shall be a participant and an exhibitor at, the World Science-Pan Pacific Ex

position which is being held in Seattle, Washington, in 1961.

You are requested to furnish me recommendations and draft documents pertaining to actions required to be taken by the President under sections 2 and 5, and under the last sentence of the first section, of the act. I also request that you furnish recommendations, at an early date, with respect to (1) the most effective manner of representation of the United States at the exposition, and (2) the amount of appropriations which are necessary to accomplish such representation. Please communicate with the Bureau of the Budget with respect to the provision of funds for administrative expenses under Public Law 85-880.

Please call upon other interested departments and agencies, including the Department of State and the National Science Foundation, for advice and assistance regarding the carrying out of the act.

This letter shall be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

Sincerely,

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The Honorable LEWIS L. STRAUSS, The Secretary of Commerce, Washington 25, D. C.

REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 1 OF

1954

Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, April 29, 1954, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended1

FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION OF THE UNITED STATES

SECTION 1. Establishment of Commission. There is hereby established the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States, hereinafter referred to as the Commission. The Commission shall be composed of three members, who shall each be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, hold office during the pleasure of the President, and receive compensation at the rate of $15,000 per annum. The President shall from time to time designate one of the members of the Commission as the Chairman of the Commission, hereinafter referred to as the Chairman. Two members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the Commission.

SEC. 2. Transfer of functions. (a) All functions of the War Claims Commission and of the members, officers, and em

1 Effective July 1, 1954, under the provisions of section 7 of the plan; published pursuant to section 11 of the act (63 Stat. 206; 5 U. 8. C. 133z-9).

ployees thereof are hereby transferred to the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States.

(b) All functions of the International Claims Commission of the United States (hereinafter referred to as the International Claims Commission) and of the members, officers, and employees thereof are hereby transferred to the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States.

(c) The functions of the Secretary of State and of the Department of State with respect to the International Claims Commission and its affairs, exclusive of the functions of the said Secretary and Department under sections 3 (c), 4 (b), and 5, and the first sentence of section 8 (d), of the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, 64 Stat. 12, as amended, are hereby transferred to the Commission.

(d) The functions of the Commissioner provided for in the Joint Resolution approved August 4, 1939, ch. 421, 53 Stat. 1199, together with the functions of the Secretary of State under section 2 thereof, are hereby transferred to the Commission.

SEC. 3. Certain functions of Chairman. There are hereby vested in the Chairman all functions of the Commission with respect to the internal management of the affairs of the Commission, including but not limited to functions with respect to: (a) the appointment of personnel employed under the Commission, (b) the direction of employees of the Commission and the supervision of their official activities, (c) the distribution of

business among employees and organizational units under the Commission, (d) the preparation of budget estimates, and (e) the use and expenditure of funds of the Commission available for expenses of administration.

SEC. 4. Abolitions. (a) The War Claims Commission, provided for in the War Claims Act of 1948, 62 Stat. 1240, as amended, and the International Claims Commission, provided for in the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, including the offices of the members of each of the said commissions, and the office of Commissioner provided for in the aforesaid Joint Resolution of August 4, 1939, are hereby abolished.

(b) The functions of the Secretary of State under the third and fourth sentences of section 3 (c) of the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, are hereby abolished.

SEC. 5. Authorization to delegate. The Commission is hereby authorized to delegate any of its functions to one or more persons designated by the Commission from among the members of the Commission and the officers and employees serving under the Commission.

SEC. 6. Transitional provisions. (a) Any person who is a member or acting member of the War Claims Commission or of the International Claims Commission immediately prior to the taking effect of the provisions of this reorganization plan may be designated by the President as an acting member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States in respect of an office of member the initial appointment to which has not then been made under section 1 of this reorganization plan. Each such acting member of the said Foreign Claims Settlement Commission shall perform the duties and receive the compensation of member. Unless sooner terminated, the tenure of any acting member designated hereunder shall terminate when the office of member concerned is filled in pursuance of section 1 hereof, or 120 days after the effective date of this reorganization plan, whichever is earlier.

(b) The Chairman shall make such provisions as may be necessary with respect to winding up any affairs of the agencies abolished by the provisions of this reorganization plan not otherwise provided for herein.

(c) So much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, available, or to be made available, in connection with the functions transferred by section 2 of this reorganization plan as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine shall be transferred to the Commission at such time or times as the said Director shall direct.

(d) Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall deem to be necessary in order to effectuate the transfers provided for in subsection (c) of this section shall be carried out in such manner as he shall direct and by such agencies as he shall designate.

SEC. 7. Effective date. The provisions of this reorganization plan shall take effect on the date determined under section 6 (a) of the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended, or the first day of July, 1954, whichever is later.

REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 2 OF

1954

Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, April 29, 1954, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended1

LIQUIDATION OF CERTAIN AFFAIRS OF THE RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION

SECTION 1. Transfer of functions. The functions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation) with respect to the following-described matters, together with the functions of the Secretary of the Treasury under section 10 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended, and under the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Liquidation Act, with respect to the said matters, are hereby transferred as follows:

(a) There are transferred to the Export-Import Bank of Washington the said functions relating to:

(1) The loan made by the Corporation to the Republic of the Philippines under

1 Effective July 1, 1954, under the provisions of section 5 of the plan; published pursuant to section 11 of the act (63 Stat. 206; 5 U. S. C. 1332-9).

section 3 of the Joint Resolution of August 7, 1946, ch. 811, 60 Stat. 902.

(2) The loans made by the Corporation to the Government of Ecuador and the Newfoundland Railway of St. Johns, Newfoundland.

(3) The capital stock of the Banco de Borracha (now known as the Amazon Credit Bank, Belem, Brazil).

(4) All foreign bonds and securities acquired by the Corporation in the liquidation of its lending programs.

(b) There are transferred to the Small Business Administration the said functions relating to loans made by the Corporation to victims of floods or other catastrophes.

(c) There are transferred to the Federal National Mortgage Association the said functions relating to mortgages held by the Corporation which were made or acquired under the authority of The RFC Mortgage Company or the Defense Homes Corporation.

SEC. 2. Transfer of incidental functions. There are hereby transferred to each transferee agency so much of the functions of the Corporation, and so much of the functions of the Secretary of the Treasury under section 10 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended, and under the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Liquidation Act, as is incidental to, or necessary for, the performance by the transferee agency of the functions specified in section 1 (a), (b), or (c) hereof, as the case may be, including, in respect of the functions specified in sections 1 (a) (1), 1 (b), and 1 (c) hereof, the authority to issue notes or other obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury, which may be purchased by the Secretary, under section 7 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended, and the duty of making payments on such notes or obligations issued by or transferred to the transferee agency hereunder.

SEC. 3. Transfer of assets; miscellaneous transfers. (a) The loans, bonds,

securities, mortgages, and capital stock referred to in section 1 of this reorganization plan, together with accrued interest thereon, property acquired in connection therewith, and contracts and other instruments pertaining thereto, are hereby transferred from the Corporation to the respective transferee agencies.

(b) In addition to the transfers made by section 3 (a), above, there shall be transferred to each transferee agency so much as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to be appropriate by reason of transfers made by sections 1, 2, and 3 (a) of this reorganization plan of the property, personnel, records, liabilities and commitments of the Corporation and of the authorizations, allocations, and funds available or to be made available to the Corporation or the Treasury Department.

(c) Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to be necessary in order to effectuate the transfers provided for in sections 3 (a) and 3 (b), above, shall be carried out in such manner and by such agencies as the Director shall direct.

SEC. 4. Definition. As used in this reorganization plan, the term transferee agencies means the Export-Import Bank of Washington, the Small Business Administration, and the Federal National Mortgage Association.

SEC. 5. Effective date. The provisions of this reorganization plan shall take effect at the time determined under the provisions of section 6 (a) of the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended, or at the close of June 30, 1954, whichever is later, and shall be effective notwithstanding any heretofore enacted provisions of law transferring the duty of completing the liquidation of the assets and the winding up of the affairs of the Corporation.

REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 1 OF

1957

Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, April 29, 1957, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended1

ABOLITION OF THE RECONSTRUCTION

FINANCE CORPORATION

SECTION 1. Definitions. As used in this reorganization plan: (a) The term "Corporation" means the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

(b) The term "remaining functions" means (1) all functions of the Corporation, (2) except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and (c) of section 6 of this reorganization plan, all functions of the Secretary of the Treasury under section 10 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended (15 U. S. C. 609), and (3) all functions of the Secretary of the Treasury under sections 102 and 106 (b) of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Liquidation Act (67 Stat. 230, 231), as amended.

(c) The term "transferees" means the Housing and Home Finance Administrator, the Administrator of General Services, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, and the Secretary of the Treasury.

SEC. 2. Transfer of functions. (a) There are hereby transferred to the

1 Effective June 30, 1957, in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of the plan; published pursuant to section 11 of the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended (sec. 11, 63 Stat. 206; 5 U. S. C. 133z-9).

Housing and Home Finance Administrator the remaining functions with respect to or arising out of (1) the securities and obligations of, loans made to, and contracts or other agreements with, States, municipalities, political subdivisions thereof, public agencies, boards, commissions or other public bodies, and (2) loans, securities and obligations acquired in connection with programs of financial assistance for drainage and irrigation projects.

(b) There are hereby transferred to the Administrator of General Services the remaining functions with respect to or arising out of (1) the affairs of the Smaller War Plants Corporation which were transferred to the Corporation pursuant to Executive Order No. 9665 of December 27, 1945 (11 F. R. 3) and section 207 of Public Law 132-80th Congress (61 Stat. 209), (2) the national defense, war and reconversion activities with respect to which notes of the Corporation were cancelled pursuant to the provisions of Title II of Public Law 860-80th Congress (62 Stat. 1187), and (3) activities of the RFC Price Adjustment Board and the functions transferred to the Corporation by Executive Order No. 9841 of April 23, 1947 (12 F. R. 2645).

(c) Except as otherwise provided in sections 2 (d) (1) and 2 (d) (2) of this reorganization plan (relating to financial assistance to railroads, etc., and to Schedule A hereto annexed), there are hereby transferred to the Administrator of the Small Business Administration the remaining functions with respect to or arising out of programs of financial assistance to business enterprises and to victims of floods or other disasters.