Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 9359—Suspending Certain Statutory Provisions Relating to Employment in the Canal Zone

July 01, 1943

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1944 (Public Law 64, 78th Congress), section 7 of the Military Appropriation Act, 1944, and section 108 of the Naval Appropriation Act, 1944, relating to certain kinds of employment in the Canal Zone, and deeming such course to be in the public interest, I hereby suspend, from and including the respective effective dates of said acts, compliance with the provisions of the said sections during the continuance of any of the wars in which the United States is now engaged.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
July 1, 1943.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 9359—Suspending Certain Statutory Provisions Relating to Employment in the Canal Zone Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/367999

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