Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 9232—Transferring the Functions of the Sample Surveys Section of the Work Projects Administration to the Bureau of the Census

August 20, 1942

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, approved December 18, 1941 (Public Law 354—77th Congress), it is hereby ordered as follows:

1. The functions, records, property (including office equipment), personnel, and administration of the Sample Surveys Section of the Work Projects Administration, Federal Works Agency, are transferred to the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.

2. This order shall become effective August 24, 1942.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 20, 1942.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 9232—Transferring the Functions of the Sample Surveys Section of the Work Projects Administration to the Bureau of the Census Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210872

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