Executive Order 7641—Transferring to the Secretary of the Treasury the Functions Delegated to the Secretary of Labor by Executive Order No. 2889 of June 18, 1918

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act entitled "An Act To authorize the President to provide housing for war needs", approved May 16, 1918 (40 Stat. 550), as amended and supplemented, it is ordered that all powers, rights, privileges, and duties (including the power to execute deeds, contracts, or other instruments of conveyance) delegated to the Secretary of Labor by Executive Order No. 2889 of June 18, 1918, be, and they are hereby, transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury to be exercised and performed by the said Secretary through the Director of Procurement; and the Secretary of Labor shall take such action as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order, including the transfer of all the stock of the United States Housing Corporation, now held by the Secretary of Labor as trustee, to the Secretary of the Treasury as trustee for the United States.

This order shall supersede the said Executive Order No. 2889 of June 18, 1918, and shall become effective July 1, 1937.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
June 22, 1937.