Executive Order 6983—Authorizing and Designating the Federal Emergency Relief Administrator to Acquire Property for Certain Purposes

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 195), I hereby authorize and designate the Federal Emergency Relief Administrator, and the Director of the Land Program as he may be authorized by such Administrator, to acquire by purchase or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real or personal property or any interest therein, in connection with the construction or carrying on of any project or program financed by allocations, allotments, or transfers made, or to be made, to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration under the authority and in accordance with the provisions of the said National Industrial Recovery Act or acts supplementing the appropriations heretofore made therefor, and to sell any security acquired or any property so constructed or acquired or to lease any such property with or without the privilege of purchase, and to administer or to direct the administration of such property.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
March 6, 1935.