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CHAPTER III-RECIPROCAL TARIFF LETTERS

LETTER OF APRIL 5, 1939

MY DEAR MR. SECRETARY: Pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by the Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930, approved June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 943), as extended by the Joint Resolution approved March 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 24), I hereby direct that the duties proclaimed on this date in connection with the trade agreement signed on April 1, 1939 with the Turkish Republic, and all other duties heretofore proclaimed in connection with trade agreements (other than the trade agreement with Cuba signed on August 24, 1934, the trade agreement with Nicaragua signed on March 11, 1936 and the trade agreement with Czechoslovakia signed on March 7, 1938, as amended) entered into under the authority of the said Act, as originally enacted or as extended, shall be applied on and after the effective date of such duties, or, as the case may be, shall continue to be applied on and from the date of this letter, to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of all foreign countries, except as otherwise hereinafter provided, whether imported directly or indirectly, so long as such duties remain in effect and this direction is not

modified.

Such proclaimed duties shall be applied to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of Cuba in accordance with the provisions of the trade agreement with Cuba signed on August 24, 1934.

Because I find as a fact that the treatment of American commerce by Germany is discriminatory, I direct that such proclaimed duties shall not be applied to products of Germany. Products of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia, now under the de facto administrative control of Germany, shall be regarded as products of Germany for the purposes of this paragraph.

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LETTER OF NOVEMBER 16, 1939

THE WHITE HOUSE Washington, November 16, 1939 The Honorable HENRY MORGENTHAU, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury.

MY DEAR MR. SECRETARY: Pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by the Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930, approved June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 943), as extended by the Joint Resolution approved March 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 24), I hereby direct that the duties proclaimed on this date in connection with the trade agreement signed on November 6, 1939 with Venezuela, and all other duties heretofore proclaimed in connection with trade agreements (other than the trade agreement with Cuba signed on August 24, 1934, the trade agreement with Nicaragua signed on March 11, 1936 and the trade agreement with Czechoslovakia signed on March 7, 1938, as amended) entered into under the authority of the said Act, as originally enacted or as extended, shall be applied on and after the effective date of such duties, or, as the case may be, shall continue to be applied on and from

13 F.R. 2808; 3 CFR, 1938 Supp., page 153.

the date of this letter, to articles the | tories now under the de facto administragrowth, produce, or manufacture of all tive control of Germany shall be regarded foreign countries, except as otherwise as products of Germany for the purposes hereinafter provided, whether imported of this paragraph. directly or indirectly, so long as such duties remain in effect and this direction is not modified.

My letter addressed to you on April 5, 1939,' with reference to duties heretofore proclaimed in connection with the trade agreements signed under the authority of the Act of June 12, 1934, is hereby superseded.

Such proclaimed duties shall be applied to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of Cuba in accordance with the provisions of the trade agreement with You will please cause this direction to Cuba signed on August 24, 1934. be published in an early issue of the

Because I find as a fact that the treat-weekly TREASURY DECISIONS.

ment of American commerce by Germany is discriminatory, I direct that such proclaimed duties shall not be applied to products of Germany. Products of terri

Very sincerely yours,

[SEAL]

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

14 F.R. 1577; 3 CFR, 1939 Supp., page 246.

CHAPTER IV-REORGANIZATION PLANS

[Public Resolution No. 20-76th Congress] direction and supervision of the Presi[S. J. Res. 138]

JOINT RESOLUTION PROVIDING THAT REORGAN

dent.

SECTION 2. Central Statistical Board.

IZATION PLANS NUMBERED I AND II SHALL The Central Statistical Board and all of

TAKE EFFECT ON JULY 1, 1939

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of reorganization plan numbered I, submitted to the Congress on April 25, 1939, and the provisions of reorganization plan numbered II, submitted to the Congress on May 9, 1939, shall take effect on July 1, 1939, notwithstanding the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1939.

SEC. 2. Nothing in such plans or this joint resolution shall be construed as having the effect of continuing any agency or function beyond the time when it would have terminated without regard to such plans or this joint resolution or of continuing any function beyond the time when the agency in which it was vested would have terminated without regard to such plans or this joint resolution.

WM. B. BANKHEAD

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JNO N GARNER

Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.

Approved, June 7, 1939.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. I

Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, April 25, 1939, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1939, approved April 3, 1939

its functions and personnel (including the Chairman and the members of the Board) are hereby transferred to the Bureau of the Budget in the Executive Office of the President. The Chairman of the Board shall perform such administrative duties as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall direct.

SECTION 3. Central Statistical Committee Abolished and Functions Transferred.-The Central Statistical Committee is hereby abolished, and its functions are transferred to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to be administered by him under the direction and supervision of the President. The Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall promptly wind up any outstanding affairs of the Central Statistical Committee.

SECTION 4. National Resources Planning Board.-(a) The functions of the National Resources Committee, established by Executive Order No. 7065 of June 7, 1935, and its personnel (except the members of the Committee) and all of the functions of the Federal Employment Stabilization Office in the Department of Commerce and its personnel are hereby transferred to the Executive Office of the President. The functions transferred by this section are hereby consolidated, and they shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the President by the National Resources Planning Board (hereafter referred to as the Board), which shall SECTION 1. Bureau of the Budget.-pointed by the President. The Presibe composed of five members to be apThe Bureau of the Budget and all of its functions and personnel (including the Director and Assistant Director) are hereby transferred from the Treasury Department to the Executive Office of the President; and the functions of the Bureau of the Budget shall be administered by the Director thereof under the

PART 1.-EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE

PRESIDENT

dent shall designate one of the members of the Board as Chairman and another as Vice Chairman. The Vice Chairman_shall act as Chairman in the absence of the Chairman or in the event of a vacancy in that office. The members of the Board shall be compensated at the rate of $50 per day for time spent

in attending and traveling to and from, against such appropriations, allocations, meetings, or in otherwise exercising the or other funds prior to the transfer: functions and duties of the Board, plus Provided, That the use of the unexthe actual cost of transportation: Pro- pended balances of appropriations, allovided, That in no case shall a member cations, or other funds transferred by be entitled to receive compensation for this section shall be subject to the provimore than thirty days' service in two sions of section 4 (d) (3) and section 9 consecutive months. of the Reorganization Act of 1939.

(b) The Board shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and a majority of its members in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but the Board may function notwithstanding vacancies.

(c) The Board may appoint neces

sary officers and employees and may delegate to such officers authority to perform such duties and make such expenditures as may be necessary.

SECTION 9. Personnel.-Any personnel transferred by this Part found to be in excess of the personnel necessary for the efficient administration of the functions transferred by this Part shall be retransferred under existing law to other positions in the Government service, or separated from the service subject to the

provisions of section 10 (a) of the Reorganization Act of 1939.

PART 2.-FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY SECTION 201. Federal Security Agency.—(a) The United States Employment Service in the Department of Labor and its functions and personnel are transferred from the Department of Labor; the Office of Education in the Department of the Interior and its functions and personnel (including the Com

SEC. 5. National Resources Committee Abolished. The National Resources Committee is hereby abolished, and its outstanding affairs shall be wound up by the National Resources Planning Board. SEC. 6. Federal Employment Stabilization Office Abolished.-The Federal Employment Stabilization Office is hereby abolished, and the Secretary of Com-missioner of Education) are transferred merce shall promptly wind up its affairs. SEC. 7. Transfer of Records and Property. All records and property (including office equipment) of the several agencies transferred, or the functions of which are transferred, by this Part are hereby transferred to the Executive Office of the President for use in the administration of the agencies and functions transferred by this Part.

from the Department of the Interior; the Public Health Service in the Department of the Treasury and its functions and personnel (including the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service) are transferred from the Department of the tration within the Works Progress AdTreasury; the National Youth Adminisministration and its functions and personnel (including its Administrator) are transferred from the Works Progress AdSEC. 8. Transfer of Funds.-So much ministration; and these agencies and of the unexpended balances of appro- their functions, together with the Social priations, allocations, or other funds Security Board and its functions, and the available (including those available for Civilian Conservation Corps and its functhe fiscal year ending June 30, 1940) for tions, are hereby consolidated under one the use of any agency in the exercise of agency to be known as the Federal Secuany functions transferred by this Part, rity Agency, with a Federal Security Ador for the use of the head of any depart- ministrator at the head thereof. The ment or agency in the exercise of any Federal Security Administrator shall be functions so transferred, as the Director appointed by the President, by and with of the Bureau of the Budget shall deter- the advice and consent of the Senate, mine, shall be transferred to the Execu- and shall receive a salary at the rate of tive Office of the President for use in $12,000 per annum. He shall have genconnection with the exercise of functions eral direction and supervision over the transferred by this Part. In determin- administration of the several agencies ing the amount to be transferred the consolidated into the Federal Security Director of the Bureau of the Budget Agency by this section and shall be remay include an amount to provide for sponsible for the coordination of their the liquidation of obligations incurred | functions and activities.

(b) The Federal Security Administra- tion of the Office of Education are tor shall appoint an Assistant Federal hereby transferred to, and shall be exerSecurity Administrator, who shall re- cised by, the Federal Security Adminisceive a salary at the rate of $9,000 per trator. annum, and he may also appoint such other personnel and make such expenditures as may be necessary.

(c) The Assistant Administrator shall act as Administrator during the absence or disability of the Administrator or in the event of a vacancy in that office and shall perform such other duties as the Administrator shall direct.

(d) The several agencies and functions consolidated by this section into the Federal Security Agency shall carry with them their personnel.

SECTION 205. Public Health Service.(a) The Public Health Service and its functions shall be administered by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator.

(b) All the functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating to the administration of the Public Health Service, except those functions relating to the acceptance and investment of gifts as authorized by sections 23 (b) and 137 (e), title 42, U. S. Code, are hereby trans

Federal Security Administrator.

SECTION 202. Social Security Board. The Social Security Board and its func-ferred to, and shall be exercised by, the tions shall be administered as a part of the Federal Security Agency under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator. The Chairman of the Social Security Board shall perform such administrative duties as the Federal Security Administrator shall

direct.

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(b) The office of the Director of the United States Employment Service is hereby abolished, and all of the functions of such office are transferred to, and shall be exercised by, the Social Security Board.

(c) All functions of the Secretary of Labor relating to the administration of the United States Employment Service are hereby transferred to, and shall be exercised by, the Federal Security Administrator.

SECTION 204. Office of Education.-(a) The Office of Education and its functions shall be administered by the Commissioner of Education under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator.

(b) All functions of the Secretary of the Interior relating to the administra

SECTION 206. National Youth Administration.-The National Youth Administration and its functions shall be administered by the National Youth Administrator under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Ad

ministrator.

SECTION 207. Civilian Conservation Corps.-The Civilian Conservation Corps and its functions shall be administered by the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator.

SECTION 208. Transfer of Records and Property. All records and property (including office equipment) of the several agencies which, with their functions, are consolidated by section 201 into the Federal Security Agency are hereby transferred to the jurisdiction and control of the Federal Security Agency for use in the administration of the agencies and functions consolidated by that section.

SECTION 209. Transfer of Funds.-So much of the unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds (including those available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940) available for the use of any agency in the exercise of any functions transferred by this Part, or for the use of the head of any department or agency in the exercise of any functions so transferred, as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine, shall be transferred for use in connection with the exercise of the functions transferred by this Part.

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