Executive Order 10777—Amending Executive Order No. 10758 To Increase the Membership of the Career Executive Board

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the laws of the United States, including section 1753 of the Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 631) and the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403), and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

Section 2 of Executive Order No. 10758 of March 4, 1958 (23 F. R. 1589), entitled "Establishing a Career Executive Program within the Civil Service System," is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. Career Executive Board. There is hereby established the Career Executive Board, hereinafter referred to as the Board, which shall be composed of seven members. Four of the members shall be appointed by the President from private life and each of three of the members shall be a representative of an executive agency in consonance with section 214 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1946, approved May 3, 1945 (59 Stat. 134; 31 U.S.C. 691). One of the agencies so represented shall be the Commission and the other two shall be such executive agencies, other than the Commission, as the President may from time to time designate. Not more than four members of the Board shall be adherents of the same political party. The Chairman of the Board shall be designated from time to time by the President from among the members of the Board."

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 6, 1958.