Section 5. Unless otherwise authorized by the President, all loans for a period of 2 years or more shall provide for repayment in equal annual installments, which may include interest in the discretion of the Administrator, except that when the loan is for a period of 5 years or more, and in the opinion of the Administrator the financial condition of the borrower so justifies, there need be no requirement that any payment be made on the principal during the first 3 years after the loans is made.

Section 6. Upon default in the repayment of any loan or payment of interest, the Resettlement Administration may (a) enforce payment by realizing upon the security and by legal proceedings, (b) extend the time of payment where the circumstances so justify, or (c) refinance such loans upon terms and conditions not inconsistent with the provisions of this regulation.

Section 7. In the case of any person who has entered into a contract for a loan from any State rural rehabilitation corporation operating, in whole or in part, with funds directly or indirectly granted by the United States, and who is unable to receive the full amount of the loan from the corporation, the Resettlement Administration, upon receiving an assignment of such contract from the corporation, may complete such loan according to its terms, and enforce such contract to the extent of the interest of the Resettlement Administration therein.

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 7200 (Ex-RA 14)

Dated: SEPTEMBER 26, 1935.

Subject: Amending Executive Order No. 7027, of April 30, 1935. Establishing the Resettlement Administration.

Subparagraphs (a) and (b) of the second paragraph of Executive Order No. 7027, of April 30, 1935, establishing the Resettlement Administration, are hereby amended to read as follows:

"(a) To administer approved projects involving rural rehabilitation, relief in stricken agricultural areas, and resettlement of destitute or low-income families from rural and urban areas, including the establishment, maintenance, and operation, in such connection, of communities in rural and suburban areas.

"(b) To initiate and administer a program of approved projects with respect to soil erosion, stream pollution, sea-coast erosion, reforestation, flood control, and other useful projects."

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 7396

MAKING APPLICABLE TO THE EMERGENCY RELIEF APPROPRIATION ACT OF 1936 CERTAIN EXECUTIVE ORDERS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS ISSUED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE EMERGENCY RELIEF APPROPRIATION ACT OF 1935.

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, approved June 22, 1936, I hereby order and direct that the expenditure of funds appropriated by said Act, and the administration thereof, shall be in accordance with the orders, rules, and regulations heretofore issued by the President relating to the expenditure of funds appropriated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 and to the administration of that Act, insofar as applicable and except as to rates of pay and eligibility for employment.

The Works Progress Administration is hereby authorized to continue to provide relief and work relief on useful projects, under the said Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936 in accordance with allocations of funds made to it by the President from time to time, and such agency is hereby authorized and empowered to prescribe such rules and regulations not inconsistent with this order as may be necessary properly to carry out the purposes of such allocations and the provisions of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936.

THE WHITE HOUSE, June 22, 1936,

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 7530

Dated: DECEMBER 31, 1936.

Subject: Transfer of the functions, funds, property, etc., of the Resettlement Administration to the Secretary of Agriculture.

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me under Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 200), the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115), and the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, approved June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1608), I hereby order as follows:

All the powers, functions, and duties heretofore vested in the Resettlement Administration by Executive Order No. 7027 of April 30, 1935, as amended by Executive Order No. 7200 of September 26, 1935, and in the Administrator and Deputy Administrator thereof, are hereby transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture, to be exercised and performed by him; and all funds, personnel, property, records, and equipment of the Resettlement Administration are hereby transferred to the Department of Agriculture, to be under the supervision, control, and direction of the Secretary of Agriculture.

This order shall become effective on January 1, 1937.

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 7557 (Ex-RA 24)

Dated: FEBRUARY 19, 1937.

Subject: Amendment of Executive Order No. 7530 of December 31, 1936, transferring functions, funds, property, etc., of the Resettlement Administration to the Secretary of Agriculture.

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me under Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 200), the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115), and the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, approved June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1608), it is ordered that the second paragraph of Executive Order No. 7530 of December 31, 1936, transferring the functions, funds, property, etc., of the Resettlement Administration to the Secretary of Agriculture, be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

"All the powers, functions, and duties heretofore vested in the Resettlement Administration by Executive Order No. 7027 of April 30, 1935 (as amended by Executive Order No. 7200 of September 26, 1935), Executive Order No. 7028 of April 30, 1935, and Executive Order No. 7041 of May 15, 1935, are hereby transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture, to be exercised and performed by him; and all funds, personnel, property, records, and equipment of the Resettlement Administration are hereby transferred to the Department of Agriculture, to be under the supervision, control, and direction of the Secretary of Agriculture."

The exercise or performance by the Secretary of Agriculture since January 1, 1937, of any powers, functions, and duties vested in the Resettlement Administration by Executive Orders No. 7028 of April 30, 1935, and No. 7041 of May 15, 1935, is hereby confirmed and ratified.

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 7649 (EX-RA 27)

Dated: JUNE 29, 1937.

Subject: Making applicable to the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937 certain Executive orders, rules, and regulations issued under authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935 and 1936.

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937, approved June 29, 1937, I hereby order and direct that the expenditure of funds appropriated and made available by said Act, and the administration thereof, shall be in accordance with the orders, rules, and regulations heretofore issued by the President relating to the expenditure of funds appropriated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 and the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, as supplemented, and to the administration of said Acts, insofar as applicable, except as to rates of pay and eligibility for employment.

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 9070

CONSOLIDATING THE HOUSING AGENCIES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT INTO THE NATIONAL HOUSING AGENCY

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), and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

1. The following agencies, functions, duties, and powers are consolidated into a National Housing Agency and shall be administered as hereinafter provided under the direction and supervision of a National Housing Administrator:

(a) The Federal Housing Administration and its functions, powers, and duties, including those of the Administrator thereof.

(b) All functions, powers, and duties of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and of its members.

(c) The Home Owners' Loan Corporation and the functions, powers, and duties of its Board of Directors.

(d) The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation and the functions, powers, and duties of the Board of Trustees.

(e) The United States Housing Authority and its functions, powers, and duties, including those of the Administrator thereof.

(f) All functions, powers, and duties relating to defense housing of (1) the Federal Works Administrator under the act of October 14, 1940, entitled "An Act to Expedite the Provision of Housing in Connection with National Defense, and for other purposes," as amended, and under acts making appropriations to carry out the purposes of said Act, (2) the War Department and the Navy Department with respect to housing units for persons (with families) engaged in national defense activities (except housing units Iccated on military or naval reservations, posts, or bases) under Title IV of the Naval Appropriation Act for the Fiscal Year 1941, and (3) any agencies heretofore designated (including the Federal Works Agency and the Farm Security Administration) to provide temporary shelter in defense areas under the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, and the Additional Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, and the Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1941.

(g) All functions, powers, and duties of the Farm Security Administration relating to such housing projects as such Administration determines are for families not deriving their principal income from operating or working upon a farm. (h) The Defense Homes Corporation and its functions, powers, and duties, including those of its officers and Board of Directors.

(i) All functions, powers, and duties of the Federal Loan Administrator, the Federal Works Administrator, and the head of any department or other agency relating to the administration or supervision of the agencies, functions, powers, and duties transferred hereunder.

(j) All functions, powers, and duties of the Division of Defense Housing Coordination established by Executive Order No. 86321 of January 11, 1941, and of the Coordinator of defense housing: Provided, That such Division and such Coordinator shall continue to exercise such functions, powers, and duties until the appointment or designation of the National Housing Administrator. (k) All powers, rights, privileges, duties, and functions transferred to the Federal Works Administrator by Executive Order No. 81862 of June 29, 1939: Provided, That with respect to any functions, powers, and duties enumerated in subparagraphs (f) and (g) above, any agency now engaged in the construction or management of any project shall continue such activities on behalf of the National Housing Agency until such time as the National Housing Administrator shall determine that it is expedient for the Federal Public Housing Authority, herein provided for, to discharge such functions, powers, and duties, with respect to such project through its own facilities.

2. The National Housing Administrator shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive a salary of $12,000 a year unless the Congress shall otherwise provide. Pending such appointment, an existing officer of the Government designated by the President shall act as National Housing Administrator.

3. There shall be three main constituent units in the National Housing Agency. Each such unit shall be administered by a Commissioner acting under the direction and supervision of the National Housing Administrator. The unit

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administering the Federal Housing Administration and its functions, powers, and duties shall be known as the Federal Housing Administration, and the Federal Housing Administrator shall serve as Federal Housing Commissioner. The unit administering the functions, powers, and duties of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and its members shall be known as the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration, and the Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board shall serve as Federal Home Loan Bank Commissioner. The United States Housing Authority and its functions, powers, and duties shall be administered as a Federal Public Housing Authority, one of the main constituent units, and the Administrator of the United States Housing Authority shall serve as Federal Public Housing Commissioner. The agencies, functions, powers, and duties enumerated in subparagraphs (c), (d), and (k) of paragraph 1 shall be administered in the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration, and those enumerated in subparagraphs (f) and (g) shall be administered in the Federal Public Housing Authority. The agency, functions, powers, and duties enumerated in subparagraph (h) of paragraph 1 shall also be administered by the Federal Public Housing Commissioner. The Administrator of the National Housing Agency may centralize in the office of the National Housing Administrator such budget, personnel, legal, procurement, research, planning, or other administrative services or functions common to the said constituent units as he may determine.

4. The capital stock of the Defense Homes Corporation shall be transferred from the Federal Loan Administrator to the National Housing Administrator, and the Federal Loan Administrator and the Defense Homes Corporation shall take all necessary action to effectuate such transfer and carry out the purposes hereof.

5. The Central Housing Committee is hereby abolished, and all of its assets, contracts, property (including office equipment and records), and unexpended balances of funds available for its use are hereby transferred to the National Housing Agency.

6. All assets, contracts, and property (including office equipment and records) of any agency hereby consolidated, and all assets, contracts, and property (including office equipment and records) which other agencies, including departments, have been using primarily in the administration of any function, power, or duty hereby consolidated or transferred, are hereby transferred, respectively, with such agency, function, power, or duty.

7. Except as provided in paragraph 8 hereof, (1) all personnel of any agency hereby consolidated, and (2) all personnel of other agencies, including departments, who have been engaged primarily in the administration of any function, power, or duty hereby consolidated or transferred and who within thirty days after the appointment or designation of the National Housing Administrator are jointly certified for transfer by said administre tor and the head of the department or agency to which such personnel is attached, shall be transferred, respectively with such agency, functions, power, or duty; but any personnel transferred with functions, powers, or duties pursuant to this paragraph who are found by the National Housing Administrator to be in excess of the Personnel necessary for the administration of such functions, powers, and duties shall be retransferred under existing law to other position in the Government or separated from the service. 8. The following personnel are not transferred hereunder: (1) The Directors and Officers of the Defense Homes Corporation, (2) the members of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board other than the Chairman, (3) the Directors of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, and (4) the Trustees of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. The offices of the foregoing personnel excepted from transfer by this paragraph (except in the case of the Defense Homes Corporation) are hereby vacated for the duration of this order: Provided, That the offices of the members of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board shall not be vacated until sixty days from the date of this order. The personnel of the Division of Defense Housing Coordination and of the Central Housing Committee are not transferred hereunder, except that the National Housing Administrator, within 60 days after his appointment or designation, may take over such of this personnel as are needed. During such period, all personnel of such Division and of such Committee may be retained by them in connection with the winding up of their affairs.

9. So much of the unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, or other funds (not otherwise transferred hereunder) available for the use of any agency in the exercise of any function, power, or duty consolidated by this order, or for the use of the head of any department or agency in the exercise of any such function, power, or duty, as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine (with the approval of the President), shall be transferred, respectively, to the National Housing Agency or the main constituent unit therein concerned, for its use in connection with the exercise of the functions, powers, or

duties, respectively, to be administered by it hereunder. In determining the amount to be transferred, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may include an amount to provide for the liquidation of obligations incurred against such appropriations, authorizations, allocations, or other funds prior to transfer.

10. All housing now owned by the United States and located on a military or naval reservation, post, or base is hereby transferred to the jurisdiction of the War or Navy Department, respectively, having jurisdiction of such reservation, post, or base: Provided, That with respect to all housing developed by the War or Navy Department under Title II of Public, 671, approved June 28, 1940, the Federal Public Housing Authority shall take all necessary steps to transfer such jurisdiction and carry out the purpose hereof, including the transfer of title to the United States and including repayment (out of any funds available therefor) of the cost of such housing for reimbursement of the Bond Account from which funds were transferred to pay such costs.

11. The Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall allocate to the National Housing Agency, from appropriations, authorizations, allocations, or other funds available for the administrative expenses of the Federal Loan Agency and the Federal Works Agency (relating to the administration of the agencies and functions transferred therefrom hereunder) and of the agencies and functions, powers, and duties consolidated hereunder, such sums, and in such proportions, as he may find necessary for the administrative expenses of the National Housing Agency. None of the agencies established or consolidated hereunder shall incur any obligations for administrative expenses except pursuant to appropriations, allocations, or other authorizations of funds specifically available now or hereafter for administrative expenses.

12. The National Housing Administrator may appoint necessary personnel and make necessary expenditures to carry out the functions, powers, and duties of the National Housing Agency. The Administrator and the Commissioners hereunder may delegate their respective functions, powers, and duties to such agencies, officials, or personnel as they may designate, respectively. Until the appointment or designation of a National Housing Administrator, the Commissioners respectively shall exercise such of the functions, powers, and duties of the National Housing Administrator as relate to the agencies, functions, powers, and duties to be administered by such Commissioners respectively.

13. Nothing herein shall impair or affect any outstanding obligations or contracts of any agency consolidated hereunder or of the United States of America (including its pledge of faith to the payment of all annual contributions now or hereafter contracted for pursuant to the United States Housing Act, as amended), or of any Insurance Funds created under the National Housing Act.

14. All orders, rules, regulations, permits, or other privileges made, issued, or granted by or in respect of any agency, function, power, or duty consolidated hereunder shall continue in effect to the same extent as if such consolidation had not occurred until modified, superseded, or repealed, except that the regulations of January 11, 1941, relating to defense housing coordination shall hereby be revoked upon the appointment or designation of the National Housing Administrator.

15. All unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, or other funds transferred under this order shall be used only for the respective purposes and in the administration of the respective functions for which such funds were made available.

16. Transfers of available funds under this order shall include funds available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943.

17. This order shall become effective as of the date hereof and shall be in force and effect so long as Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, remains in force. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.

THE WHITE HOUSE, February 24, 1942.

(F. R. Doc. 42-1663: Filed, February 25, 1942: 12:16 p. m.)

EXECUTIVE ORDER 9280

DELEGATING AUTHORITY WITH RESPECT TO THE NATION'S FOOD PROGRAM

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and in order to assure an adequate supply and efficient distribution of food to meet war and essential civilian needs, it is hereby ordered as follows: