Executive Order 10753—Designation of Certain Officers of the Department of the Interior To Act as Secretary of the Interior

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 179 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (5 U.S.C. 6), and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

In case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Secretary of the Interior, the following-designated officers of the Department of the Interior shall, in the order of succession indicated, act as Secretary of the Interior until a successor is appointed or until the absence or sickness of the incumbent shall cease:

1. Under Secretary of the Interior.

2. Assistant Secretaries of the Interior and Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, in the order fixed by their length of service as such.

3. Solicitor of the Department of the Interior.

This order supersedes Executive Order No. 10156 of August 26, 1950, entitled "Designation of Certain Officers of the Department of the Interior to Act as Secretary of the Interior."

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

February 15, 1958.