Executive Order 8180—Effective Date of Election by Retired Foreign Service Officers to Receive Reduced Annuities

Whereas section 26 (e) of the act of February 23, 1931, 46 Stat. 1207, 1211, as amended by section 3 of the act of April 24, 1939, Public, No. 40, 76th Congress, 1st Session, provides, in part, as follows:

"Provided further, That a retired officer who is receiving an annuity on the effective date of this Act, if the husband of a wife to whom he was married at the time of his retirement and for a total period of at least five years, shall be entitled under the same terms and conditions set forth above, to elect to receive a reduced annuity, a portion of which will be continued on his death throughout the life of his surviving widow, but all such elections by retired officers shall be made within six months following the effective date of this Act, and they shall all be effective on the same date, to be prescribed by the President * * *."

Now, Therefore, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the foregoing statutory provisions, I hereby designate September 1, 1939, as the date on which all elections by retired Foreign Service officers to receive reduced annuities in accordance with the provisions of the said act of February 23, 1931, as amended, shall become effective.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
June 21, 1939.