Executive Order 9046—Amending Executive Order No. 8771 of June 6, 1941, Entitled "Authorizing the United States Maritime Commission To Take Over Certain Foreign Merchant Vessels"

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of Congress entitled, "An Act to authorize the acquisition by the United States of title to or the use of domestic or foreign merchant vessels for urgent needs of commerce and national defense, and for other purposes", approved June 6, 1941 (Public Law 101, 77th Congress), it is ordered that paragraph (c) of section 2 of Executive Order No. 8771 of June 6, 1941, entitled, "Authorizing the United States Maritime Commission to Take Over Certain Foreign Merchant Vessels", be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

"(c) To document any or all of such vessels under the laws of the United States or of any other country of the Western Hemisphere."

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
January 28, 1942.