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Executive Order 10519—Specification of Laws From Which Functions Authorized by Mutual Security Act of 1951, as Amended, Shall be Exempt

March 05, 1954

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 532 of the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as added by section 7 (m) of the Mutual Security Act of 1952 (Public Law 400, approved June 20, 1952, 66 Stat. 146), it is hereby determined that, to the extent hereinafter indicated, the performance of functions authorized by the said Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended (including, except as hereinafter otherwise specified, the performance of functions authorized by the Act for International Development, as amended, the Institute of Inter-American Affairs Act, as amended, and the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended), without regard to the laws specified in the lettered subdivisions of sections 1 and 2 of this order will further the purposes of the said Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended.

SECTION 1. With respect to functions authorized by the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended, except those exercised by the Department of Defense under authority of section 506 of said Act or the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended:

(a) The act of March 26, 1934, c. 90, 48 Stat. 500, as amended (15 U.S.C. 616a).

(b) Section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, 60 Stat. 809 (31 U.S.C. 529).

(c) Section 305 of the act of June 30, 1949 (the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949), c. 288, 63 Stat. 396 (41 U.S.C. 255).

(d) Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U.S.C. 5).

(e) Section 3710 of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 8).

(f) Section 2 of the act of March 3, 1933, c. 212, 47 Stat. 1520 (41 U.S.C. 10a).

(g) Section 3735 of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 13).

(h) Section 901 of the act of June 29, 1936, c. 858, 49 Stat. 2015 (46 U.S.C. 1241).

SEC. 2. With respect to purchases authorized to be made outside the continental limits of the United States under the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended.

(a) Section 10 (1) of the act of July 2, 1926, c. 721, 44 Stat. 787, as amended (10 U.S.C. 310 (1)).

(b) Section 4 (c) of the act of February 19, 1948 (the Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947), c. 65, 62 Stat. 23, as amended, 65 Stat. 700 (41 U.S.C. 153 (c)).

(c) Section 304 (c) of the act of June 30, 1949 (the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949), c. 288, 63 Stat. 395, as amended, 65 Stat. 700 (41 U.S.C. 254 (c)).

(d) The last proviso of section 201 of the act of December 18, 1949 (the First War Powers Act, 1941), c. 593, 55 Stat. 839, as amended, 64 Stat. 1257 (50 U.S.C. App. 611).

(e) Section 1301 of the act of March 27, 1942 (the Second War Powers Act, 1942), c. 199, 56 Stat. 185 (50 U.S.C. App. 643).

This order supersedes Executive Order No. 10387 of August 25, 1952, 17 F. R. 7799, entitled "Specification of Laws from Which Certain Functions Authorized by the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended, shall be Exempt," and Executive Order No. 10446 of April 17, 1953, 18 F. R. 2209, entitled "Specification of Laws from Which the Escapee Program Administered by the Department of State shall be Exempt."

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

March 5, 1954.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Executive Order 10519—Specification of Laws From Which Functions Authorized by Mutual Security Act of 1951, as Amended, Shall be Exempt Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235498

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