Executive Order 7609—Amendment of Executive Order No. 7070 of June 12, 1935, Prescribing Regulations Governing Appointments of Employees Paid From Emergency Funds

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States, paragraph 1 of Executive Order No. 7070 of June 12, 1935, prescribing regulations governing appointments of employees paid from emergency funds is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. No appointment or reappointment made by the several executive departments, independent establishments, and emergency agencies to a position the compensation in connection with which is paid from emergency funds, as distinguished from the appropriations for the regular activities of the Government, shall be made for a period extending beyond the date of expiration of the emergency appropriation from which such compensation is paid.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
April 23, 1937.