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Executive Order 10553—Amending Executive Order No. 10539 With Respect to the Administration of the Abaca Production Act of 1950

August 18, 1954

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Abaca Production Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 435; 50 U.S.C. 541, et seq.), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that section 4 (a) of Executive Order No. 10539 of June 22, 1954 (19 F. R. 3829), be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

"Section 4 (a). All functions vested in the President by the said Abaca Production Act of 1950 shall be performed and exercised through the General Services Administration, except that (1) those functions vested in the President with respect to directing increases or reductions of acreage under cultivation to abaca, as provided for in section 3 (a) of the said act, shall be performed and exercised through the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, and (2) those functions vested in the President by subsections (c) and (d) of section 4 of the said act (50 U.S.C. 543 (c) and (d)), shall continue to be performed and exercised by the President."

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 18, 1954.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Executive Order 10553—Amending Executive Order No. 10539 With Respect to the Administration of the Abaca Production Act of 1950 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/306665

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