SEC. 11. (a) The High Commissioner may, if such action is deemed necessary for the fulfillment of his mission under this order, promulgate laws, ordinances or regulations. The High Commissioner, if such action is deemed by him to be important in its effect, direct or indirect, on the security of the Ryukyu Islands, or on relations with foreign countries and international organizations with respect to the Ryukyu Islands, or on the foreign relations of the United States, or on the security, property or interests of the United States or nationals thereof, may, in respect of Ryukyuan bills, laws, or officials, as the case may be, (1) veto any bill or any part or portion thereof, (2) annul any law or any part or portion thereof within 45 days after its enactment, and (3) remove any public official from office. The High Commissioner has the power of reprieve, commutation and pardon. The High Commissioner may assume in whole or in part, the exercise of full authority in the islands, if such assumption of authority appears mandatory for security reasons. Exercise of authority conferred on the High Commissioner by this subsection shall be promptly reported, together with the reasons therefor, to the Secretary of Defense who shall inform the Secretary of State.

(b) In carrying out the powers conferred upon him by the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the High Commissioner shall give all proper weight to the rights of the Ryukyuans and shall, in particular, have proper regard for the provisions of the second sentence of Section 2 of this order.

[Sec. 11 revised by E.O. 11010, 27 F.R. 2622, Mar. 21, 1962, effective Apr. 1, 1962] SEC. 12. In carrying out this order, including section 11, the High Commissioner shall preserve to persons in the Ryukyu Islands the basic liberties enjoyed by people in democratic countries, including freedom of speech, assembly, petition, religion and press, and security from unreasonable searches and seizures, and from deprivation of life, liberty or property without due process of law.

SEC. 13. The Secretary of Defense may issue such further instructions as may be necessary for the carrying out of this order.

SEC. 14. Except as they may be inconsistent herewith, the proclamations, ordinances, and directives heretofore issued by the existing civil administration and its predecessor military government agencies shall continue in force and effect until modified, revoked, or superseded under the authority of this order. No proceeding, either civil or criminal, pending in any court of the Government of the Ryukyu Islands or of the civil administration of the Ryukyu Islands on the date of this order shall abate by reason of this order; and any such proceeding shall be conducted and concluded in accordance with the laws, ordinances, proclamations, and directives in effect immediately before the date of this order.

SEC. 15. This order shall become effective immediately, but until its provisions shall severally become operative as herein provided, the legislative, executive and judicial functions now vested in the civil administration and the Government of the Ryukyu Islands, shall continue to be exercised as now provided by law, ordinance, proclamation or directive, and the incumbents of all offices under the civil adminis

tration or the Government of the Ryukyu Islands shall continue in office until their successors are appointed or elected and have qualified, unless sooner removed by competent authority.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10800-IMPLEMENTING THE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES TRAINING ACT [AS AMENDED]

SOURCE: Executive Order 10800, 24 F.R. 447, Jan. 20, 1959, as amended by the following:

E.O. 10805, 24 F.R. 1301, Feb. 20, 1959; E.O. 11228, 30 F.R. 7739, June 16, 1965.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code and by the Government Employees Training Act (72 Stat. 327), it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. As used in this order, the term "Act" means the Government Employees Training Act (72 Stat. 327), and the terms "Government," "department," "employee," "Commission," and "training" have the meanings given to those terms, respectively, by section 3 of the Act.

SEC. 2. The head of each department shall, consonant with the Act, this order, and the regulations of the Civil Service Commission issued pursuant to the Act and section 4 of this order:

(a) review periodically the immediate and long-range needs of the department for employee training and in so doing take special care to identify those instances in which training will increase the economy and efficiency of departmental operations;

(b) formulate plans of action to meet such training needs;

(c) establish and maintain, to the maximum extent feasible, needed training programs;

(d) establish adequate administrative controls to insure that training improves the performance of employees, and contributes to the economy, efficiency, and effective operation of the department and to the attainment of its program goals;

(e) stimulate and encourage employee self-development and selftraining;

(f) utilize the training facilities and services of other departments to the extent practicable, provide training facilities and services to other departmens when practical and without interference with the department's mission, and cooperate in the development of interdepartmental employee training activities; and

(g) approve the acceptance of any contributions, awards, or payments to employees authorized by section 19 (a) of the Act and regulations issued by the Commission pursuant to section 4(b) of this order only when the department head deems such contributions, awards or payments appropriate to meet reasonable costs incurred or to be incurred by the recipient incident to the training or attendance at a meeting and when, in the view of the department head, the purpose, amount and type of contribution, award or payment would not place or tend to place the recipient under any improper obligation to the grantor.

[Sec. 2 as amended by E.O. 10805, 24 F.R. 1301, Feb. 20, 1959]

SEC. 3. There is hereby delegated to the heads of departments, severally and in respect of the employees of the respective departments, the authority, vested in the President by section 3 (7) of the Act, to designate foreign governments or international organizations, or instrumentalities of either, as eligible to provide training under the Act; provided that each such designation shall be made only after the department concerned has obtained and given due consideration to the advice of the Department of State thereon.

SEC. 4. The following-described functions, vested in the President by the Act, are hereby delegated to the Commission:

(a) The authority, under section 4(b) of the Act, (1) to designate any deparment or part thereof, or any employee or employees therein, as excepted from the Act or any provision of the Act other than sections 4, 19 (c), 21, 22, and 23 (a), and (2) to designate any such department or part thereof, or any such employee or employees therein, so excepted by the Commission, as again subject to the Act or any such provision of the Act.

(b) The authority, under section 19 (a) of the Act, to fix by regulation the extent to which the contributions, awards, and payments referred to in the said section 19 (a) may be made to and accepted by employees.

SEC. 5. [Superseded by E.O. 11228, 30 F.R. 7739, June 16, 1965]

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10970-DELEGATING CERTAIN AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT TO ESTABLISH MAXIMUM PER-DIEM RATES FOR GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL IN TRAVEL STATUS [AS AMENDED]

SOURCE: Executive Order 10970, 26 F.R. 10149, Oct. 31, 1961, as amended by the following:

E.O. 11230, 30 F.R. 8447, July 2, 1965.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 166), as amended by the act of August 14, 1961, 75 Stat. 339 (5 U.S.C. 836), and by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. There is hereby delegated to the Secretary of State the authority vested in the President by section 3 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 166), as amended (5 U.S.C. 836), to establish maximum rates of per-diem allowances for civilian officers and employees of the Government to the extent that such authority pertains to travel status at localities in foreign areas as defined in section 111 of the Overseas Differentials and Allowances Act (74 Stat. 792).

SEC. 2. [Superseded by E.O. 11230, 30 F.R. 8447, July 2, 1965] SEC. 3. Existing maximum per-diem allowances established by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget under the authority of section 3 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 166) shall remain in effect until changed by the Secretary of State or the Director of the Bureau of the Budget under the authority delegated to them by this order.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10973-ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED FUNCTIONS [AS AMENDED]

SOURCE: Executive Order 10973, 26 F.R. 10469, Nov. 7, 1961, as amended by the following:

E.O. 11261, 30 F.R. 15397, Dec. 15, 1965.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (75 Stat. 424) and section 301 of title 3 of the United States Codes, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

PART I. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

SECTION 101. Delegation of functions. Exclusive of the functions otherwise delegated, or reserved to the President, by the provisions of this order, and subject to the provisions of this order, there are hereby delegated to the Secretary of State (hereafter in this Part referred to as the Secretary) all functions conferred upon the President by (1) the Act (as defined in Part VI hereof), (2) the act to provide for assistance in the development of Latin America and in the reconstruction of Chile, and for other purposes (74 Stat. 869; 22 U.S.C. 1942 et seq.), (3) the Mutual Defense Assistance Controĺ Act of 1951 (65 Stat. 644; 22 U.S.C. 1611 et seq.), (4) the unrepealed provisions of the Mutual Security Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 832; 22 U.S.C. 1750 et seq.), and (5) those provisions of acts appropriating funds under the authority of the Act which relate to the Act.

SEC. 102. Agency for International Development. (a) The Secretary shall establish an agency in the Department of State to be known as the Agency for International Development (hereafter in this Part referred to as the Agency).

(b) The Agency shall be headed by an Administrator who shall be the officer provided for in section 624 (a) (1) of the Act. Nothing in this order shall be construed as affecting the tenure of the said Administrator now in office.

(c) The officers provided for in sections 624 (a) (2) and 624(a)(3) of the Act shall serve in the Agency.

SEC. 103. Continuation of prior agencies. The corporate Development Loan Fund, the International Cooperation Administration, and the Office of the Inspector General and Comptroller shall continue in existence until the end of November 3, 1961. The personnel, offices, entities, property, records, and funds of such agencies and office may be utilized by the Secretary prior to the abolition of such agencies and office.

SEC. 104. Special missions and staffs abroad. The maintenance of special missions or staffs abroad, the fixing of the ranks of the chiefs thereof after the chiefs of the United States diplomatic missions, and the authorization of the same compensation and allowances as the chief of mission, class 3 and class 4, within the meaning of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 999; 22 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), all under section 631 of the Act, shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary.

SEC. 105. Munitions control. In carrying out the functions conferred upon the President by section 414 of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, the Secretary shall consult with appropriate agencies. Designations, including changes in designations, by the Secretary of articles which shall be considered as arms, ammunition, and implements of war, including technical data relating thereto, under that section shall have the concurrence of the Secretary of Defense.

SEC. 106. Office of Small Business. The Office of Small Business provided for in section 602(b) of the Act shall be in the Department of State.

PART II. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

SEC. 201. Delegation of functions. Subject to the provisions of this order, there are hereby delegated to the Secretary of Defense:

(a) The functions conferred upon the President by Part II of the Act not otherwise delegated or reserved to the President.

(b) To the extent that they relate to other functions under the Act administered by the Department of Defense, the functions conferred upon the President by sections 602 (a), 605 (a), 625 (a), 625 (h), 627, 628, 631 (a), 634 (b), 635 (b), and 635 (d) of the Act.

(c) The function conferred upon the President by section 644 (i) of the Act.

(d) The functions conferred upon the President by the fourth and fifth provisos of section 108 of the Mutual Security Appropriation Act, 1956 (69 Stat. 438).

SEC. 202. Reports and information. In carrying out the functions under section 634 (b) of the Act delegated to him by the provisions of section 201 (b) of this order, the Secretary of Defense shall consult with the Secretary of State.

SEC. 203. Exclusions from delegation to Secretary of Defense. The following-described functions conferred upon the President by the Act are excluded from the functions delegated by the provisions of section 201 (a) of this order:

(a) Those under section 506 (a) (introductory clause) of the Act. (b) Those under sections 506(b) (1), (2), and (3) of the Act to the extent that they pertain to countries which agree to the conditions set forth therein.

(c) So much of those under section 511(b) of the Act as consists of determining that internal security requirements may be the basis for programs of military assistance in the form of defense services and reporting any such determination.

(d) That of making the determination provided for in section 507 (a) of the Act.

(e) Those of negotiating, concluding, and terminating international agreements.