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Executive Order 10855—Inspection of Income Tax Returns by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

November 27, 1959

By virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 55(a) and 508 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 (53 Stat. 29, 111; 54 Stat. 1008; 26 U.S.C. 55(a) and 508), and by section 6103(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (68A Stat. 753; 26 U.S.C. 6103(a)), it is hereby ordered that any income tax return for the years 1945 to 1958, inclusive, shall, during the Eighty-sixth Congress, be open to inspection by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, in connection with its study and investigation of the applicability of the antitrust and anti-monopoly laws of the United States to professional boxing, pursuant to Senate Resolution 57, 86th Congress, agreed to February 2, 1959, such inspection to be in accordance and upon compliance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in Treasury Decisions 6132 and 6133, relating to the inspection of returns by committees of the Congress, approved by me on May 3, 1955.

This order shall be effective upon its filing for publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

November 27, 1959.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Executive Order 10855—Inspection of Income Tax Returns by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/306837

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