Executive Order 6487-B—Approval of Code of Fair Competition for the Distilled Spirits Rectifying Industry

Whereas, the Secretary of Agriculture having submitted for my approval a Code of Fair Competition for the Distilled Spirits Rectifying Industry and having rendered his report and recommendations and findings thereon;

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority vested in me by title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 10, 1933, and otherwise, do hereby find that:

1. Due notice and opportunity for hearings to interested parties have been given pursuant to the provisions of the act and regulations thereunder, upon a code of fair competition presented by the Secretary of Agriculture upon his own motion pursuant to section 3 (d) of the act, and Executive orders under the act; and,

2. Hearings have been held upon said code, pursuant to such notice and pursuant to the pertinent provisions of the act and regulations thereunder; and,

3. Said code of fair competition constitutes a code of fair competition, as contemplated by the act and complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of the act, including clause (2) of subsection (a) of section 3 of title I of the act; and,

4. It appears, after due consideration, that said code of fair competition will tend to effectuate the policy of Congress as declared in section 1 of title I of the act,

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority vested in me by title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, and otherwise, do hereby approve said Code of Fair Competition for the Distilled Spirits Rectifying Industry.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
December 9, 1933.