Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 7927—Foreign Service Regulations of the United States

July 14, 1938

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1752 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U.S.C., title 22, sec. 132), and in conformity with the act of May 24, 1924 (43 Stat. 140), as amended by the act of February 23, 1931, 46 Stat. 1207, establishing the Foreign Service of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

1. The "Instructions to Diplomatic Officers of the United States," and the "Consular Regulations of the United States," as now prescribed by Executive orders, and all notes thereto by the Secretary of State, are hereby consolidated into one set of regulations which shall be known as the "Foreign Service Regulations of the United States."

2. The said instructions to Diplomatic Officers of the United States and notes thereto shall constitute "Part I" of the Foreign Service Regulations of the United States, and the said Consular Regulations of the United States and notes thereto shall constitute "Part II" of the Foreign Service Regulations of the United States.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
July 14, 1938.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7927—Foreign Service Regulations of the United States Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210524

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