CONTENTS

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Foreword...

Strengthening the institutional means for the legal accountability of

decisions made by the President....

A brief historical sketch concerning Executive orders.

Current procedures for issuing Executive orders. -

The legal status of Executive decisions_

Conclusion........

Letter of March 6, 1974, from co-chairmen to Mr. Fred J. Emery, director,

Office of the Federal Register

Response of March 26, 1974, with enclosures.

List 1:

List of proclamations and Executive orders related to or issued

pursuant to Proclamation 2039, March 6, 1933, and Public

Law 1, 73d Congress, 1st session, March 9, 1933 (48 Stat. 1),

which appear to be still in effect according to our card file_____

List 2:

List of Executive orders issued pursuant to Proclamation 2914 of

December 12, 1950, which appear to be still in effect according

to our card file.

Finding aids....

Table 4-Executive Orders Issued Pursuant to the First and Second

War Powers Acts, from CFR Cumulative Supplement, Titles 1-3,

Book I..

Executive Orders: A Brief History of Their Use and the President's

Power to Use Them....

APPENDIX

Statutes and regulations prescribing form of Presidential documents and

procedures for their issuance:

Title 44-Public printing and documents:

Chapter 15-Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations___

Executive Order 11030, June 19, 1962, 27 F.R. 5847, as

amended by Executive Order 11354, May 23, 1967, 32

F.R. 7695...

Government Publications and Their Use, Laurence F. Schmeckebier and

Roy B. Eastin, the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.:

War Legislation (excerpts from pp. 235-238)...

Proclamations and Executive Orders (excerpts from pp. 318-325)-

Other papers---

Presidential libraries.

Select bibliography on Executive orders_