Executive Order 6823—Allocation of Funds for the National Reemployment Service

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority rested in me by the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934 (Public, No. 412, 73d. Cong.), appropriating $899,675,000 as an additional amount for carrying out the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes", approved March 31, 1933 (48 Stat. 22), the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 55), the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, approved May 18, 1933 (48 Stat. 58), and the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 195), there is hereby allocated from the said appropriation the sum of $1,000,000 to the Secretary of Labor for expenditure by the United States Employment Service as the needs of the National Reemployment Service may require, and for such other similar purposes as may be found necessary to meet the demands of the Public Works Program.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 16, 1934.