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Executive Order 10568—Suspending Certain Statutory Provisions Relating to Employment in the Canal Zone

October 01, 1954

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 103 of the Civil Functions Appropriations Act, 1955 (Public Law 453, 83d Congress), and section 710 of the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1955 (Public Law 458, 83d Congress), relating to certain kinds of employment in the Canal Zone, and deeming such course to be in the public interest, I hereby suspend, from and including the effective date of the said acts, compliance with the provisions of the said sections: Provided, that this suspension shall not be construed to affect the provisions of the said sections relating to the amount of compensation that may be received by persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any branch of the United States Government or by any corporation or company the stock of which is owned wholly or in part by the United States Government.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 1, 1954.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Executive Order 10568—Suspending Certain Statutory Provisions Relating to Employment in the Canal Zone Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/306701

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