Executive Order 9759—Suspending Certain Statutory Provisions Relating to Employment in the Canal Zone

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1947 (public Law 374, 79th Congress), section 107 of the Naval Appropriation Act, 1947 (Public Law 492, 79th Congress), and section 6 of the Military Appropriation Act, 1947 (Public Law 515, 79th Congress), 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 effective dates of the 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 or of the present national emergency.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 22, 1946