Executive Order 8137—Authorizing the Extension of Appointments of Certain Employees of the General Accounting Office
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the provisions of paragraph Eighth of subdivision SECOND of section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403, 404), it is hereby ordered that the employees of the General Accounting Office whose continuance in the service until June 30, 1939, was authorized by Executive Order No. 7913 of June 16, 1938, may be further continued in the service for a period not to extend beyond June 30, 1940.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The White House,
May 17, 1939.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8137—Authorizing the Extension of Appointments of Certain Employees of the General Accounting Office Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/362951