Washington : Government Printing Office
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By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is ordered that Executive Order No. 10250 of June 5, 1951 (16 F. R. 5385), entitled "Providing for the performance of certain functions of the President by the Secretary of the Interior", be, and it is hereby, amended as follows:
1. Section 1 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph (r):
"(r) The authority vested in the President by section 55 of the act of April 30, 1900, 31 Stat. 150, as amended (48 U.S.C. 562), and by section 4 of the act of August 24, 1954, 68 Stat. 785, as amended (48 U.S.C. 562o), to approve the issuance of bonds or other instruments of indebtedness by the Territory of Hawaii."
2. Paragraph (f) of section 1 is amended to read as follows:
"(f) The authority vested in the President by section 4705(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to authorize certain persons in the Virgin Islands to obtain certain drugs for legitimate medical purposes without regard to order forms, and by section 4762(b) of such Code to provide for the registration of and the imposition of special and transfer taxes upon persons in the Virgin Islands who import, manufacture, produce, compound, sell, deal in, dispense, prescribe, administer, or give away marihuana: Provided, that the Secretary of the Interior shall perform the functions referred to in this subsection in consultation with the Department of the Treasury."
3. Section 2 is amended by deleting therefrom paragraph (c), pertaining to roads, trails, and tolls in Alaska.
4. There is added to the order at the end thereof the following section 5:
"5. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to redelegate to the Under Secretary of the Interior any of the authority delegated to the Secretary of the Interior by section 1 of this order."
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
THE WHITE HOUSE
