Executive Order 6749—Allocation of Funds for Petroleum Administration

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934 (Public, No. 412, 73d Cong.), the appropriation of $1,500,000 made by the said act, under the title "Petroleum Administration", for administering and enforcing the provisions of section 9(c) of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 195), and the Code of Fair Competition for the Petroleum Industry approved pursuant to the authority of said act, and for other purposes relating to the regulation of commerce in petroleum, is hereby allocated, for expenditure for the purposes designated in the said appropriation act, to the Secretary of the Interior as the person authorized by Executive Order No. 6204, of July 14, 1933, to exercise all the powers vested in the President for the purpose of enforcing section 9 (c) of the National Industrial Recovery Act and as Administrator of the Code of Fair Competition for the Petroleum Industry.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
June 27, 1934.