Executive Order 10835—Delegating to the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission the Authority of the President To Make Certain Determinations Relating to the Payment of Presidential Awards

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, the Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission is hereby designated and empowered, without approval, ratification, or other action of the President, to exercise the authority vested in the President by sub-section (e) of section 304 of the Government Employees' Incentive Awards Act (68 Stat. 1113; 5 U.S.C. 2123(e)) to determine the activity primarily benefiting, or the various activities benefiting, from any suggestion, invention, superior accomplishment, or other personal effort of any civilian officer or employee of the Government which constitutes the basis of any Presidential award or honorary recognition made or granted under subsection (b) of section 304 of that act (68 Stat. 1113; 5 U.S.C. 2123(b)).

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 21, 1959.