Executive Order 7092—Rates of Compensation of Government Employees in Agencies Established Under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935 (Public Resolution No. 11, 74th Congress), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that the heads of the agencies heretofore or hereafter established under the said Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 may elect to classify the positions of the employees of their respective agencies, now in the service or hereafter appointed, and fix the rates of compensation therefor either in accordance with the salary schedule contained in Executive Order No. 6746, of June 21, 1934, or in accordance with the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

This Executive order shall apply to all appointments which have been or may hereafter be made to positions in any of the agencies heretofore or hereafter established under the said Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935.

Executive Order No. 6746, of June 21, 1934, in hereby modified to the extent necessary to effectuate the purposes of this order.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
July 3, 1935.