Executive Order 7186—Increasing the Limitation Contained in Clause (g) of Section 1 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

Whereas I find it necessary, in order to effectuate the purposes of the Emergency Relief Appropriation act of 1935 (Public Resolution No. 11, 74th Congress), to increase by $800,000,000 the limitation of $900,000,000, contained in clause (g) of section 1 of the said Act, on the amount which may be expended under the Act for loans or grants, or both, for projects of States, Territories, Possessions, including subdivisions and agencies thereof, municipalities, and the District of Columbia and self-liquidating projects of public bodies thereof:

Now, Therefore, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me under the said Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, it is ordered that the said limitation be, and it is hereby, increased from $900,000,000 to $1,700,000,000.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
September 21, 1935.