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Executive Order 10559—Providing for the Administration of the President's Management Improvement Appropriation

September 08, 1954

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is 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 "Expenses of Management Improvement" in Title I of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1955, 68 Stat. 274, or by any reenactment of the provisions of such paragraph in the same or in a different amount of funds, to allocate to any agency or office of the executive branch (including the Bureau of the Budget) funds appropriated by the said paragraph or by any reenactment thereof as herein stated.

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 8, 1954.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Executive Order 10559—Providing for the Administration of the President's Management Improvement Appropriation Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/306678

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