Executive Order 9439—Establishing a Uniform Monthly Rate of Pay for Student Nurses Transferred to Federal Hospitals

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 11 (b) of the act of June 15, 1943 (Public Law 74, 78th Congress), as amended by the act of March 4, 1944 (Public Law 248, 78th Congress), student nurses transferred to any Federal hospital in the continental United States, exclusive of Alaska, pursuant to subsections (e) and (f) of section 2 of the said act of June 15, 1943, shall be paid a stipend at the monthly rate of sixty dollars for that period of training requisite to graduation: Provided, that the period of training in no case shall extend beyond the period required for graduation by the institution from which the student nurse was transferred, but may be terminated at any time prior thereto as the interests of the service may require.

This order shall be published in the Federal Register.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
May 4, 1944.