December 04, 1941
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 450 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (U.S.C., title 43, sec. 8), Mrs. Ruth W. Talley, an employee of the General Land Office, Department of the Interior, is hereby designated to sign my name to land patents.
Executive Order No. 7703 of September 10, 1937 is hereby revoked.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
The White House,
December 4, 1941.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8959—Designation of Mrs. Ruth W. Talley To Sign Land Patents Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/368265