Executive Order 10623—Amendment of Certain Provisions of Executive Orders No. 10000 and No. 10011, as Amended, Pertaining to Salary Differentials and Allowances for Officers and Employees of the Foreign Service Serving Outside the United States

By virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 303, 443, 853, and 901 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 1002, 1006, 1024, 1025; 22 U.S.C. 843, 888, 1093, 1131), as amended by the Foreign Service Act Amendments of 1955 (69 Stat. 24), and by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

1. Clause (2) of the introductory paragraph of Order No. 10000 of September 16, 1948, prescribing regulations governing additional compensation and credit granted certain employees of the Federal Government serving outside the United States, is hereby amended to read as follows:

(2) governing the payment of salary differentials to Foreign Service officers, Foreign Service Reserve officers, and Foreign Service staff officers and employees assigned to certain posts, pursuant to the said section 443, as amended.

2. Section 401 of the said Executive Order No. 10000 is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 401. Salary Differentials. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the authority vested in the President by section 443 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, to establish, under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, rates of salary differential, not exceeding 25 per centum of basic salary, for Foreign Service officers, Foreign Service Reserve officers, and Foreign Service staff officers and employees permanently or temporarily assigned to posts involving extraordinarily difficult living conditions, excessive physical hardship, or notably unhealthful conditions, which posts shall be known as "Foreign Service Differential Posts",

3. Section 402 of the said Executive Order No. 10000, as amended, and section 403 of that order are hereby revoked: Provided, that existing rules and regulations pertaining to the payment of salary differentials to Foreign Service staff officers and employees serving at designated Foreign Service Differential Posts shall remain in effect until superseded by action taken pursuant to this order.

4. Section 503 of the said Executive Order No. 10000, as amended is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 503. Designation and Cancellation of Designation of Unhealthful Posts.

The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the authority vested in the President by section 853 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, to establish from time to time a list of places which by reason of climatic or other extreme conditions are to be classed as unhealthful posts. The Secretary is also authorized and empowered to cancel the designation of any such places as unhealthful. Each place designated as unhealthful by the Secretary hereunder shall be so designated as of January 1, 1942, or as of a later date to be fixed by the Secretary. The provisions of sections 501 and 502 of this Executive Order shall be subject to the authority delegated to the Secretary of State by this section.

5. Paragraph 1 (a) of Executive Order No. 10011 of October 22, 1948, authorizing the Secretary of State to exercise certain powers of the President with respect to the granting of allowances and allotments to Government personnel on foreign duty, is hereby amended to read as follows:

(a) The authority vested in the President by section 901 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 1025; 22 U.S.C. 1131), as amended by section 10 of the Foreign Service Act Amendments of 1955 (69 Stat. 27), to prescribe regulations governing the granting of (1) allowances, wherever Government-owned or rented quarters are not available, for living quarters, heat, light, fuel, gas, and electricity, including allowances for the cost of lodging at temporary quarters, authorized by paragraph (1) of the said section; (2) cost-of-living allowances authorized by paragraph (2) of the said section, as amended; and (3) allowances in order to provide for the proper representation of the United States by officers and employees of the Foreign Service, authorized by paragraph (3) of the said section.

This order shall be effective as of July 1, 1955.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 23, 1955.