Executive Order 8219—Designating the Secretary of Agriculture as the Officer to Exercise the Rights of the United States Arising Out of the Ownership of the Capital Stock of the Commodity Credit Corporation

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the act of March 8, 1938, 52 Stat. 107, I hereby designate the Secretary of Agriculture as the officer to exercise on behalf of the United States any and all rights of the United States arising out of the ownership of the capital stock of the Commodity Credit Corporation.

This order supersedes the second paragraph of Executive Order No. 7848 of March 22, 1938, authorizing and directing' the Secretary of the Treasury to exercise on behalf of the United States any and all rights accruing to the holder of such capital stock.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 7, 1939.