Executive Order 7139—Extending the Jurisdiction of the Electric Home and Farm Authority

I hereby designate the Electric Home and Farm Authority, a corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, as an agency of the United States, to continue, in so far as permitted by its certificate of incorporation, the functions of, and to carry on the business hitherto engaged in by, Electric Home and Farm Authority, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware.

The direction included in Executive Order No. 6514, of December 19, 1933, that the outstanding stock of the Electric Home and Farm Authority, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware, be voted by the Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, is hereby rescinded, and I hereby direct that the outstanding stock of the said Electric Home and Farm Authority, Inc., be voted jointly by the trustees of the Electric Home and Farm Authority, a corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 12, 1935.