Executive Order 9455—Inspection of Income, Excess-Profits, Declared Value Excess-Profits, and Capital Stock Tax Returns by the Select Committee to Investigate the Federal Communications Commission, House of Representatives

By virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 55 (a), 508, 603, 1204, and 729 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code (53 Stat. 1, 29, 111, 171; 54 Stat. 974, 989), it is hereby ordered that income, excess-profits, declared value excess-profits, and capital stock tax returns made under the Internal Revenue Code for the years 1939 to 1944, inclusive, shall be open to inspection by the Select Committee to Investigate the Federal Communications Commission, House of Representatives, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of House Resolution 21 (Seventy-eighth Congress, first session), passed January 19, 1943, and subject to the conditions stated in the Treasury decision relating to the inspection of such returns by that Committee, approved by me this date.

This order is supplemental to Executive Order 9448, dated June 8, 1944.

This order shall be published in the Federal Register.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
July 11, 1944.