punishment imposed and executed in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph shall not exceed that to which the offender was liable at the time of the commission of the offense. 1 This order and Executive Order No. 8767 of June 3, 1941, directing certain personnel of the Coast Guard to operate as a part of the Navy subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy, shall cease and be of no effect upon the termination of the present unlimited emergency, whereupon all units, vessels and personnel of the Coast Guard then operating as a part of the Navy shall automatically return to the jurisdiction of the Department of the Treasury and resume their former status as a part of the Coast Guard. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, September 11, 1941. EXECUTIVE ORDER 8900 AMENDING THE EXECUTIVE ORDER ESTABLISHING THE ECONOMIC DEFENSE BOARD By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States and in order to define further the functions and duties of the Economic Defense Board with respect to the unlimited national emergency as declared by the President on May 27, 1941,2 and for the purpose of strengthening the international economic relations of the United States in the interest of national defense, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. The Economic Defense Board, in addition to the responsibilities and duties described in paragraph 3 of Executive Order No. 8839 of July 30, 1941, is authorized and directed to discharge and perform the following responsibilities and duties, in furtherance of such policies and objectives as the President may from time to time determine: a. Exercise and perform all powers and functions heretofore vested by any Proclamation, Executive Order or regulation in any officer or agency of the Government (1) under section 6 of the act of July 2, 1940, entitled "An Act To expedite 1 See p. 218 this Supplement. 2 See p. 78 this Supplement. See p. 249 this Supplement. the strengthening of the national defense" (Public No. 703, 76th Congress, Third Session), as extended by joint resolution of May 28, 1941 (Public No. 75, 77th Congress, First Session), and (2) under the act of October 10, 1940, entitled "An Act to authorize the President to requisition certain articles and materials for the use of the United States, and for other purposes" (Public No. 829, 76th Congress, Third Session), except the powers and functions vested in the Joint Army and Navy Munitions Board by sections 1 and 2 of Executive Order No. 8567* of October 15, 1940; and all such Proclamations, Executive Orders, and regulations are amended to the extent necessary to make this paragraph effective, but shall otherwise remain in full force and effect, and any of the provisions thereof heretofore applicable to any such officer or agency shall be applicable to the Economic Defense Board. b. Obtain, develop, and determine overall estimates of materials and commodities required for export purposes in the interest of the economic defense of the Nation (exclusive of defense articles to be transferred to the Government of any country whose defense the President deems essential to the defense of the United States, as provided in Public No. 11, 77th Congress, First Session, entitled "An Act further to promote the defense of the United States and for other purposes" approved March 11, 1941); and advise the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board of such estimated requirements. c. Advise the Office of Production Management as to the priorities required for the delivery of materials and commodities in carrying out economic defense programs. d. Provide a central clearing service to which exporters, manufacturers, and foreign importers may submit proposals for the export of materials and commodities; and obtain clearance for such proposals from the several Federal agencies concerned with the control of exports and financial transactions incidental thereto. 2. The personnel, records, funds, and property (including office equipment) of the agencies and officers now exercising 3 CFR, 1940 Supp., p. 276. the powers and functions specified in paragraph 1 (a) above are hereby transferred to the Economic Defense Board. 3. The Chairman of the Economic Defense Board is authorized to discharge and perform the above described responsibilities and duties through the Executive Director of the Board. 4. Executive Order No. 8839 of July 30, 1941, establishing the Economic Defense Board is amended accordingly. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, September 15, 1941. EXECUTIVE ORDER 8902 PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO THE ENTRY OF COFFEE INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM COUNTRIES SIGNATORIES OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COFFEE AGREEMENT By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the joint resolution of Congress approved April 11, 1941 (Public Law 33, 77th Cong., 1st sess.) it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. No invoice of coffee produced in a country which is a signatory of the Inter-American Coffee Agreement shall be certified hereafter by a United States consular officer unless there shall be produced to the certifying officer an official document, required by Article VI of the Agreement, showing that the coffee is within the producing country's quota for exportation to United States customs territory. 2. Beginning October 1, 1941, coffee produced in a country which is a signatory of the Inter-American Coffee Agreement shall not be admitted to entry for consumption in the customs territory of the United States unless there shall be produced for each shipment of such coffee an invoice bearing a certificate of a United States consular officer that there has been presented to him an official document required by Article VI of the Agreement showing that such shipment is within the producing country's quota for exportation to United States customs territory; except that any such shipment may be so entered without the production of such an invoice if the shipment is valued at less than $100, or if there is given a bond conditioned for the production of such an invoice within six months from the date of entry, or if the coffee was shipped from the producing country under a through bill of lading to the United States prior to the date of this order. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, September 17, 1941. . EXECUTIVE ORDER 8906 TRANSFER OF LANDS FROM THE OUACHITA NATIONAL FOREST TO THE OZARK NATIONAL FOREST ARKANSAS By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 11, 36 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 473), and upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is ordered that the following-described national-forest lands, in the State of Arkansas, be, and they are hereby, transferred from the Ouachita National Forest to the Ozark National Forest: All lands of the Magazine Mountain Ranger District within the established boundaries of the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas, as shown on the diagram made a part of Proclamation No. 2296 of August 30, 1938 (53 Stat., Pt. 3, 2465). It is not intended by this order to give a national-forest status to any publiclyowned lands which have not heretofore had such status, or to remove any publicly-owned lands from a national-forest status. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, September 23, 1941. EXECUTIVE ORDER 8908 RESTORING ΤΟ THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES LANDS COMPRISING THE UNITED STATES CHROMITE RESERVATION SITUATE IN THE PROVINCE OF ZAMBALES, ISLAND OF LUZON, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS WHEREAS it appears that certain lands comprising the United States 314664-42-SUPP. IV- -20 Chromite Reservation, situate in the Province of Zambales, Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, are no longer required for the purposes for which reserved; and WHEREAS it is deemed desirable and in the public interest that such lands be restored to the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines: NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 9 of the act of August 29, 1916, 39 Stat. 547, the following described lands of the United States situate in the Province of Zambales, Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, and described as Parcel No. 3 in a proclamation of the Governor General of the Philippine Islands dated April 24, 1930, and reserved and set apart by reason of the deposits of chromite thereon for the public purposes of the United States by Executive Order No. 5690, dated August 20, 1931, are hereby restored to the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, to be administered for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof: Parcel No. 3.-All that area bounded by north latitudes 15°44'30" and 15°46'30'' and by east longitudes 119°58′30′′ and 120°00'30". FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE September 25, 1941. EXECUTIVE ORDER 8909 AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TO PERMIT THE ENTRY OF BONAFIDE SAMPLES OF COFFEE WITHOUT REGARD TO QUOTA RESTRICTIONS By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the joint resolution of Congress approved April 11, 1941 (Public Law 33, 77th Cong.), I hereby authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, under such conditions as he may prescribe, to permit the entry into the United States of bona-fide samples of coffee for testing purposes without regard to the quota restrictions provided for in the Inter-American Coffee Agreement. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, September 26, 1941. EXECUTIVE ORDER 8910 TRANSFER OF JURISDICTION OVER CERTAIN LANDS FROM THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY INDIANA WHEREAS certain lands within the area shown on the diagram attached hereto have been acquired or are in the process of acquisition under the authority of 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 Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937 (50 Stat. 522, 525), in connection with the Martin County and White River Land Utilization Projects of the Department of Agriculture, in Indiana; and WHEREAS by Executive Order No. 7908' of June 9, 1938, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in those lands acquired or in process of acquisition under the authority of the aforesaid National Industrial Recovery Act and the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 were transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture for use, administration, and disposition in accordance with the provisions of Title III of the aforesaid Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, and the related provisions of Title IV thereof; and immediately upon the acquisition of the legal title to those lands now in the process of acquisition under the authority of said acts, said order, under the terms thereof, will become applicable to all the additional right, title, and interest thereby acquired by the United States; and WHEREAS it appears that the use of such lands by the Navy Department for national defense purposes would best carry out the purposes of the land-conservation and land-utilization program for which such lands were acquired, and would be in the public interest: NOW, THEREFORE,' by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 32 of Title III of the said Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, and upon recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is ordered that the lands acquired or in the process of ac 13 CFR, 1938 Supp., p. 49. EXECUTIVE ORDER 8911 WITHDRAWAL OF PUBLIC LANDS FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH THE SQUAW BUTTE EXPERIMENTAL STATION OREGON By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered that all the public lands within the following-described area be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the publicland laws, including the mining laws, and, subject to valid existing rights, reserved for the use of the Secretary of the Interior as an experimental range for scientific research and other studies to provide basic information for the administration of the Taylor Grazing Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269), as amended: lands, transferred from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Interior by Executive Order No. 8471' of July 8, 1940, be, and they are hereby, transferred from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Agriculture for use in connection with the landconservation and land-utilization program of the Soil Conservation Service: JEMEZ PROJECT, LI-NM-9 SANDOVAL COUNTY, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN T. 18 N., R. 2 W., those parts lying within the Ojo del Expiritu Santo Land Grant, as described in U. S. Survey No. 44. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, September 27, 1941. WILLAMETTE MERIDIAN T. 24 S., R. 25 E., sec. 1, S2; sec. 2, S2; sec. 3, 82; sec. 4, 82; sec. 5, S2; secs. 8 to 17, inclusive; secs. 20 to 29, inclusive; sec. 32, N2; sec. 33, N2: sec. 34, N2: sec. 35, N2; sec. 36, N2; T. 24 S., R. 26 E., sec. 6, lots 6 and 7. This order shall continue in full force and effect until revoked by the President or by act of Congress. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, September 27, 1941. EXECUTIVE ORDER 8912 TRANSFER OF CERTAIN LANDS FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE NEW MEXICO By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 32 of Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937 (50 Stat. 525), it is ordered that the following-described EXECUTIVE ORDER 8914 AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 8781 OF JUNE 12, 1941, REQUIRING THE FINGERPRINTING OF EMPLOYEES IN THE EXECUTIVE CIVIL SERVICE, TO PERMIT THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION TO EXEMPT ANY GROUP OR GROUPS OF TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES FROM THE REQUIREMENTS THEREOF By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403) and section 1753 of the Revised Statutes, Executive Order No. 8781 of June 12, 1941, entitled, “Requiring Employees in the Executive Civil Service to be Fingerprinted", is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following as Section 4 thereof: SECTION 4. The Civil Service Commission is authorized, in its discretion, to exempt any group or groups of temporary employees from the requirements of this order. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, Oct 1 1941 13 CFR, 1940 Supp., p. 164. See p. 224 of this Supplement. |