Executive Order 6747—Allocating Funds to Meet the Emergency and Necessity for Relief in Stricken Agricultural Areas

By virtue of, and pursuant to, the authority vested in me by the "Emergency Appropriation Act, Fiscal year 1935", appropriating $525,000,000 to meet the emergency and necessity for relief in stricken agricultural areas, there is hereby allocated to the Director of Emergency Conservation Work for the establishment and maintenance of Civilian Conservation Corps camps, the sum of $12,500,000; to the Farm Credit Administration for making loans to farmers for seed, feed, freight, summer fallowing, and similar purposes, under such terms and conditions as the Governor thereof may prescribe, the sum of $25,000,000; to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration for making grants to States the sum of $56,250,000, and for the purpose of increasing employment through the purchase of lands in the stricken areas, the sum of $12,500,000; and to the Secretary of Agriculture or such agency as he may designate the sum of $43,750,000 for the purchase, sale, gift, or other disposition of seed, feed, and livestock, and for transportation thereof.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
June 23, 1934.