Executive Order 10552—Delegating to the Civil Service Commission the Authority of the President To Promulgate Regulations Under Which Certain Government Employees May Be Prevented or Relieved From Working by Administrative Order

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, 65 Stat. 713, it is declared that the United States Civil Service Commission be, and it is hereby, designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the authority vested in the President by the joint resolution of June 29, 1938, 52 Stat. 1246, as amended by the act of June 11, 1954, 68 Stat. 249 (5 U.S.C. 86a), to promulgate regulations under which certain employees of the Government may be prevented or relieved from working by administrative order.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 10, 1954.