Executive Order 6910-B—Allocating Funds From the Appropriation to Meet the Emergency and Necessity for Relief in Stricken Agricultural Areas

By virtue of, and pursuant to, the authority vested in me by the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934, appropriating $525,000,000 to meet the emergency and necessity of relief in stricken agricultural areas, there is hereby allocated from the said appropriation to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration the sum of $5,000,000, for the purpose of affording relief through the purchase of submarginal lands in the stricken agricultural areas including the necessary costs of administration of such lands as may be acquired for such purpose, and to the Emergency Conservation Fund the sum of $10,000,000, for the establishment and maintenance of Civilian Conservation Corps camps pursuant to the Act of March 31, 1933 (Public No. 5, 73rd Congress).

In carrying out the provisions of this Order and other allocations made under the Appropriation here involved, there are hereby authorized such expenditures for personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for printing and binding, as necessary to accomplish the purposes of the particular allocation, and purchases may be made without regard to Section 3709, Revised Statutes, only in granting direct relief.

The Executive Order of July 11, 1934 (No. 6793) is hereby revoked.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
December 1, 1934.