Executive Order 10484—Providing for the Administration of the President's Management Improvement Fund

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes, including section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. The Director of the Bureau of the Budget is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the authority vested in the President by the paragraph appearing under the heading "Funds Appropriated to the President—Expenses of Management Improvement" in Chapter VII of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1954, to allocate to any agency or office in the executive branch (including the Bureau of the Budget) funds appropriated by the said paragraph.

SEC. 2. The Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall from time to time report to the President concerning activities carried on by executive agencies and offices with funds allocated hereunder and shall, consonant with law, exercise such direction and control with respect to the said activities as he shall deem appropriate.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

September 3, 1953.