Executive Order 9643—Transferring Certain Personnel, Records, Property, and Funds of the Department of Commerce, With Resepct to Surplus Property, to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

By virtue of authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes, including Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, and as President of the United States, and consonant with the designation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation by the Surplus Property Administrator pursuant to the provisions of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended, as the disposal agency for certain categories of surplus property for which the Department of Commerce has heretofore been the disposal agency, it is hereby ordered, effective as the opening of business November 5, 1945, that the Office of Surplus Property in the Department of Commerce is hereby terminated, and that all personnel, records, property, contracts, obligations, and funds of the Office, together with so much of the other personnel, records, property, contracts, obligations, and funds of the Department of Commerce as relates primarily to the surplus property disposal functions placed under the Reconstruction Finance Corporation by the aforesaid designation, are hereby transferred to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for use in connection with such functions. Such measures and dispositions as may be determined by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to be necessary to effectuate the transfers and termination provided for in this order shall be carried out in such manner as the Director may direct and by such agencies as he may designate.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 19, 1945