5. From and after the effective date of this order each employee shall be entitled to receive in foreign currency such amount as he would have received by converting into such foreign currency at the basic rates specified in Section 4, his net salary and net allowances or his net pay and allowances as herein provided, except that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to negative allowance of credit for payments made and reimbursement of losses sustained under prior orders relating to exchange relief.

Effective date

6. This order shall take effect, except as otherwise provided herein, on the first day of the second month following the month in which this order is approved, and the heads of the executive departments are hereby authorized to issue such instructions to carry out the provisions of this order in their respective departments as may be necessary to conform to the accounting procedure of such departments.

Prior order superseded

7. This order shall, when effective, supersede Executive Order No. 6928 of December 24, 1934, as amended by Executive Orders No. 7312 of March 9, 1936, No. 7403 of June 26, 1936, No. 7547 of February 1, 1937, No. 7766 of December 10, 1937, No. 7785 of January 8, 1938, and No. 7955 of August 13, 1938. (No. 7972, 3 F.R. 2249-2252; No. 8018, 3 F.R. 2861; No. 8261, 4 F.R. 4043; No. 8269, 4 F.R. 4241; No. 8800, 6 F.R. 3097; No. 9057, 7 F.R. 964; No. 9261, 7 F.R. 8917.)

EDITORIAL NOTES

This order was expressly amended to read as above by the following: Exec. Order No. 8018, Dec. 2, 1938, 3 F. R. 2861; Exec. Order No. 8261, Sept. 21, 1939, 4 F. R. 4043; Exec. Order No. 8269, Oct. 11, 1939, 4 F. R. 4241; Exec. Order No. 8800, June 22, 1941, 6 F. R. 3097; Exec. Order No. 9057, Feb. 11, 1942, 7 F.R. 964; Exec. Order No. 9261, Oct. 31, 1942, 7 F. R. 8917; and Exec. Order No. 9449,

June 15, 1944, 9 F. R. 6667.

Exec. Order No. 9449, which expressly amended par. (b) of sec. 2 of this order, also provided that, "the provisions of any other section of the said Executive Order No. 7972, as amended, so far as they are in conflict with the provisions of this order, are amended accordingly."

938, Oct. 29. Interdepartmental Committee on Printing and Processing.7

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

1. There is hereby established the Interdepartmental Committee on Printing and Processing, to be composed of representatives of each of the following-named departments and agencies, and such other departments or agencies as the Committee itself may designate:

Bureau of the Budget

Government Printing Office
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior

Treasury Department

Department of Commerce
Social Security Board

United States Tariff Commission
Post Office Department

2. Each department or agency represented on the Committee shall have one representative, who shall be designated by the head thereof.

3. Pending selection of a permanent chairman by the Committee the representative of the Bureau of the Budget shall serve as its temporary chairman.

4. The members of the Committee shall be officers or employees of the department, independent establishment, or agency which they represent and shall serve without additional compensation.

5. The Committee shall promulgate rules and regulations relating to the establishment, coordination, and maintenance of uniform policies and procedures, consistent with law, for the efficient and economical utilization of printing and processing in the executive branch of the Government.--(No. 7998, 3 F.R. 2603.)

1939, Jan. 14. Federal Real Estate Board.7

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows: 1. There is hereby established the Federal Real Estate Board to be composed of representatives designated by the heads of the following-named Executive departments and agencies, each department and agency to have one representative: Treasury Department (Procurement Division), Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of the Interior, Department of Justice, Navy Department, War Department, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Bureau of the Budget. The Board may authorize representation thereon of any other Executive department or agency, such representatives to be designated as stated above. Pending selection of a permanent chairman by the Board the representative of the Treasury Department shall serve as temporary chairmen [sic]. The members of the Board shall be officers or employees of the department or agency which they represent, and shall serve without additional compensation and without entailing additional expense to the Government.

2. The Secretary of the Treasury is requested to cause to be maintained by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department a permanent current record of all Federal real estate, and the several Executive departments and agencies are requested to furnish, upon request of the Director of the Procurement Division, such information as may be required to maintain such record.

3. The heads of the several Executive departments and agencies are requested to supply to the Procurement Division, for use of the Federal Real Estate Board, a current record of all real property under their respective jurisdictions which is not being utilized, in whole or in part, for the purposes of their own

department or agency. The Board shall consult with, and make recommendations to, the Procurement Division and to the Executive departments and agencies concerned, with respect to such disposition of surplus real property as will best serve the interests of the Government.

4. Executive departments and agencies contemplating the acquisition of additional real property are requested, before acquiring such property, to ascertain from the Procurement Division whether there is any real property in Federal ownership that may be made available for the purpose contemplated, and, in all cases in which such action may appear desirable, to consult with the Federal Real Estate Board regarding the acquisition of such Federal property for the use of their own department or agency.

5. The Federal Real Estate Board shall study, and make appropriate recommendations regarding, the situation in different communities adversely affected by the loss of tax revenue on land purchased or acquired by the Federal Government.--(No. 8034, 4 F.R. 249.)

EDITORIAL NOTES

By Reorganization Plan No. I, part III, secs. 301 and 303, 53 Stat. 1426-1427, effective July 1, 1939, the Public Buildings Branch of the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department was transferred to the Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency, and the functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating to the work of the Public Buildings Branch of the Procurement Division were transferred to the Federal Works Administrator.

Establishment of the Federal Real Estate Board was recommended in a report to the President entitled "Federal Ownership of Real Estate and its Bearing on State and Local Taxation" and published as H. Doc. No. 111, 76th Cong., 1st Sess.

Pursuant to this order the Federal Real Estate Board issued, in April, 1943, a report entitled "Report on Federal Contributions to States and Local Governmental Units with Respect to Federally Owned Real Estate".

1939, Mar. 21. Federal Interdepartmental Safety Council.7

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

1. There is hereby established the Federal Interdepartmental Safety Council as an official advisory agency in matters relating to the safety of Federal employees. The Council shall consist of such officers and employees of the various Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government and of the Government of the District of Columbia as may be designated by the respective heads thereof. The members of the Council shall serve without additional compensation.

2. The Council shall, without entailing additional expense to the Federal Government, act as a clearing house for accident prevention and health conservation information, and shall make recommendations and prepare forms relating to safe practices and procedures. The Council shall also, on request, conduct surveys or such other investigations as may be deemed necessary to reduce accident hazards, and shall report the results of such surveys and investigations to the heads of the department or agency concerned, together with its recommendations.

3. The general policy of the Council shall be determined by a Board consisting of the Secretary of Labor (who shall act as chairman), the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of War, the Postmaster General, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the heads of such other departments or agencies as the above-named members shall determine should have repre

sentation thereon.

4. The Division of Labor Standards, Department of Labor, is hereby requested to cooperate with the Council in the performance of its functions.--(No. 8071, 4 F.R. 1291.)

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1939, May 26. Pearl Harbor Defensive Sea Area,7

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the provisions of section 44 of the Criminal Code, as amended (U.S.C., title 18, sec. 96), the area of water in Pearl Harbor, Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, lying between extreme high-water mark and the sea and in and about the entrance channel to said harbor, within an area bounded by the extreme high-water mark, a line bearing south true from the southwestern corner of the Puuloa Naval Reservation, a line bearing south true from Ahua Point Lighthouse, and a line bearing west true from a point three nautical miles due south true from Ahua Point Lighthouse, is hereby established as a defensive sea area for purposes of national defense.

At no time shall any person (other than persons on public vessels of the United States) enter the defensive sea area above defined, nor shall any vessels or other craft (other than public vessels of the United States) be navigated within said defensive sea areas, unless authorized by the Secretary of the Navy. Any person violating the provisions of this order shall be subject to the penalties provided by law.-(No. 8143, 4 F.R. 2179.)

EDITORIAL NOTE

Regulations which supplement this order are contained in U.S. Navy Regulations, 1920.

CROSS REFERENCES.

Additional regulations governing persons and see Exec. Order

vessels in defensive sea areas:

No. 9275, Nov. 23, 1942, 7 F R. 9767.

Regulations governing navigation, anchorage, etc., in Pearl Harbor: see act of Aug. 22, 1912, ch. 335, 37 Stat. 341.

1939, July 8. Relations of Foreign Service officers with officers of other departments.

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1752 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (22 U.S.C. § 132), it is ordered that the Foreign Service Regulations of the United States be, and they are hereby, amended by prescribing the following as Chapter IX thereof:

CHAPTER IX--RELATIONS WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS

Attaches

IX-1. Assignment and commissioning of attachés. Attachés, other than those designated by the Secretary of State from the classified Foreign Service, shall be assigned by the Secretaries of their respective departments and, when such assignments have been approved by the Secretary of State, they shall be commissioned by him and shall reside at the seats of the various missions as the public interests demand. A diplomatic representative shall promptly inform the Foreign Office of the country to which he is accredited of the designation of an attache to his mission.

IX-2. Duties of attacnes. The duties of attaches are such as may be prescribed for them by the heads of their respective departments, from whom they receive their instructions and to whom they shall report, but such duties shall be performed under the general supervision of the chief of mission.

In ceremonial matters, attaches are subject to the direction of the chief of mission, and are responsible to him for their personal conduct. The diplomatic representative shall report to the Department of State any conduct of the attaches which he considers unbecoming or embarrassing to the mission.

Relative Rank

IX-3. Relative rank. The rules of precedence to be observed as between officers of the Department of State, officers of other departments, and other officials of the Government of the United States assigned abroad shall be such as are prescribed by the President.

Navy

IX-4. Classification of visits of American naval vessels to foreign ports. The term "visits of courtesy" shall be used to designate visits of a more or less formal nature of naval vessels to ports in foreign countries in which there is an exchange of official entertainment.

Visits in which formalities are restricted to the usual salutes and customary calls shall be designated "informal visits".

Unless specifically designated as visits of courtesy, all visits of United States naval vessels shall be regarded as informal visits.

IX-5. Official calls between naval officers and officers of the Foreign Service.

(a) Calls between naval officers and diplomatic officers. Upon the arrival of a naval vessel of the United States in a foreign port where there are diplomatic officers of the United States, the following procedure in regard to official calls shall be observed:

(1) A flag officer will pay the first visit to a diplomatic officer of, or above, the rank of charge d'affaires.

(2) A commanding officer will pay the first visit to a diplomatic officer of, or above, the rank of charge d'affaires.

The senior naval officer present shall, if necessary, arrange to furnish a suitable boat to enable a diplomatic representative to pay official visits afloat. Official visits shall be returned within 24 hours.

(b) Calls between naval officers and consular officers. When a naval vessel visits a port where there is a consular officer, the procedure in paying official calls shall be as follows:

(1) A flag officer receives the first visit from a consular officer regardless of the latter's rank.

(2) A captain commanding a vessel pays the first call to a consul general and receives the first call from other consular officers.

(3) A commanding officer below the rank of captain pays the first visit to a consular officer in charge of a consulate.

When the consular officer pays the first visit, the commanding officer shall send a boat ashore with an officer on board to call on the consular officer and tender him a passage to the ship at such time as he may select. The consular officer shall accept the invitation to visit the commanding officer within 24 hours, and shall tender to him his official services.

When the commanding officer pays the first visit to a consular officer, the latter shall return the visit within 24 hours.

IX-6. Services for the Navy. Foreign Service officers shall cooperate with officers of the United States Navy to the fullest possible extent. However, in matters involving the expenditure of funds they shall be governed by the provisions of section V-45.

Consular officers shall extend necessary relief and assistance to personnel of naval vessels left under their care by reason of illness, injury, or for other causes, or who desert or straggle in foreign ports, provided that the consular officer has first received such express written authorization from a commanding officer of the Navy or the Navy Department as will enable him to obtain reimbursement from the Navy Department for any outlay made.

IX-7. Presence of naval force in foreign port not to be requested except in public emergency. Diplomatic representatives and consular officers shall not request the presence of a naval force in a foreign port unless a public emergency so necessitates. The request may be addressed to the officers in command of the naval force, in which event responsibility of action rests with them, or it may be addressed to the Department of State. In either case, the request should contain detailed reasons for its submission.

1940, Mar. 2. Rules of precedence relating to Foreign Service officers and other officers of the United States Government.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1752 of the Revised Statutes 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 precedence as between officers of the Foreign Service of the United States and officers or accredited representatives of other Executive departments or establishments of the United States Government:

1. In the country to which he is accredited, the chief of the diplomatic mission shall take precedence over all officers or accredited representatives of other Executive departments or establishments.

2. In the absence of the titular head of the mission, the chargé d'affaires ad interim shall take precedence over all officers or accredited representatives of other Executive departments or establishments.

3. Counselors shall take place and precedence next in succession after the chief of mission.

4. Military and naval attaches shall take place and precedence next in succession after the counselor of embassy or legation, or at a post where the Department of State has deemed it unnecessary to assign a counselor, after the senior secretary. Military and naval attaches shall take precedence among themselves according to their respective grades and seniority therein.

5. Foreign Service officers designated as attaches shall take precedence among Foreign 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 provisions of section 12 hereof are applicable and such Foreign Service officers are also assigned as diplomatic secretaries.

6. Treasury attaches shall take place and precedence with but after military, naval, commercial, and agricultural attachés.

7. Assistant military and naval attaches shall take place and precedence next after second secretaries. Assistant military and naval attaches shall take precedence among themselves according to their respective grades and seniority therein.

8. Foreign Service officers designated as assistant attaches shall take precedence among Foreign Service officers according to their respective grades and seniority therein, or as the Secretary of State