Executive Order 10586—Designating Certain Officers To Act as Secretary of the Treasury

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 179 of the Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 6), and section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, it is ordered as follows:

In case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Under Secretary of the Treasury, the following-designated officers of the Treasury Department shall, in the order of succession indicated, act as Secretary of the Treasury until a successor is appointed or until the absence or sickness of the incumbent shall cease:

1. Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs.

2. Assistant Secretaries, in the order fixed from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury.

3. General Counsel.

Executive Order No. 8714 of March 18, 1941, entitled "Designating Certain Officers To Act as Secretary of the Treasury in Case of Absence or Sickness of the Secretary", is hereby revoked.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

January 13, 1955.