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Executive Order

DESIGNATING the SECRETARY of the TREASURY to Act in Respect of INTEREST or Claims of the United States

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the provisions of section 77 (e) of the act of July 1, 1898, entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States", as amended by the act of August 27, 1935, Public, No. 381, Seventy-fourth Congress, I hereby designate and authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to act in respect of the interest or claims, within the purview of the provisions of the said act as amended, of the United States, or any agency thereof, or any corporation (other than the Reconstruction Finance Corporation) the majority of the stock of which is owned by the United States.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The White House,

January 4, 1936.



[No. 7263]

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1936