Executive Order 6060—Transfer of Records, Etc., of the President's Emergency Committee and the President's Organization for Unemployment Relief

Whereas the President's Emergency Committee appointed under the provisions of the Second Deficiency Appropriation for 1931, Department of Commerce, and continued from August 19, 1931, as the President's Organization for Unemployment Relief under the provisions of the First Deficiency Appropriation for 1932, ceased to exist on June 30, 1932, the Congress having failed to make an appropriation for its continuance; and

Whereas the said organization has concluded its labors;

Now, Therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, pursuant to the power and authority conferred on me by law, do order and direct that all the records, files, and other papers of the President's Emergency Committee and the President's Organization for Unemployment Relief held in the custody of said committees, be transferred and delivered to and shall be preserved by the Department of Commerce as custodian thereof, until the completion of a building to be used for the permanent housing of Government records, when the Department of Commerce shall deliver all said records, files, and other papers into said building and into the custody of the official in charge thereof.

HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
March 2, 1933.