Executive Order 10798

FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES

WHEREAS the State of Alaska has this day been admitted to the Union; and WHEREAS chapter 1 of title 4 of the United States Code provides that a star shall be added to the union of the flag of the United States upon the admission of a new State into the Union and provides that that addition to the flag shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding the admission of that State; and

WHEREAS the interests of the Government require that orderly and reasonable provision be made for certain features of the flag:

NOW, THEREFORE, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States and as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Proportions. National flags and union jacks for all departments and other agencies of the executive branch of the Government (hereinafter referred to as executive agencies) shall conform to the following proportions:

(b) Union jacks manufactured or purchased for executive agencies shall be limited to those the hoists of which correspond to the hoists of the unions of flags of sizes herein authorized. The size of the union jack flown with the national flag shall be the same as the size of the union of that national flag.

SEC. 3. Position of stars. The position of each star of the union of the flag, and of the union jack, shall be as indicated on the attachment hereto.

SEC. 4. Public inquiries. Interested persons may direct inquiries concerning this order to the Quartermaster General of the Army. Inquiries relating to the procurement of national flags by executive agencies other than the Department of Defense may be directed to the General Services Administration.

SEC. 5. Applicability; prior flag and jack. (a) All national flags and union jacks manufactured or purchased for the use of executive agencies after the date of this order shall conform strictly to the provisions of sections 1 to 3, inclusive, of this order.

(b) The colors carried by troops, and camp colors, shall be of the sizes prescribed by the Secretary of Defense for the armed forces of the United States and the sizes of those colors shall not be subject to the provisions of this order.

(c) Subject to such limited exceptions as the Secretary of Defense, in respect of

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the Department of Defense, and the Administrator of General Services, in respect of executive agencies other than the Department of Defense, may approve, all national flags and union jacks now in the possession of executive agencies, or hereafter acquired, under contracts awarded prior to the date of this order, by executive agencies, including those so possessed or so acquired by the General Services Administration for distribution to other executive agencies, shall be utilized until unserviceable.

SEC. 6. The flag prescribed by this order shall become the official flag under chapter 1 of title 4 of the United States Code as of July 4, 1959.

SEC. 7. Revocation. Executive Order No. 2390 of May 29, 1916, is hereby revoked.

Sec. 8. This order shall be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

January 3, 1959.

Executive Order 10799 PROVIDING FURTHER FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE AGRICULTURAL TRADE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1954, AS AMENDED

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 hereby ordered as follows:

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SECTION 1. Section 4(a) of Executive Order No. 10560 1 of September 9, 1954, as amended, is hereby further amended by deleting "paragraphs (a) to (j), inclusive" and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: “paragraphs (a) to (k), inclusive."

SEC. 2. Section 4(d) of Executive Order No. 10560 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"(10) Those under section 104(k) of the Act by the Director of the National Science Foundation and such other agency or agencies as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, after consultation with the Director of the National Science Foundation, may designate."

13 CFR, 1954 Supp.

SEC. 3. The Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall allocate among the National Science Foundation and any other agencies designated pursuant to section 4(d) (10) of Executive Order No. 10560 (as added by section 2 of this order) the sum of $5,100,000 appropriated to the President by the provisions of Chapter VI of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1959 (Public Law 85766) appearing under the subheading "Translation of publications and scientific cooperation.'

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

January 15, 1959.

Executive Order 10800

IMPLEMENTING THE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES TRAINING ACT

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 5 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 self-training;

(f) utilize the training facilities and services of other departments to the extent practicable, provide training facilities and services to other departments 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 5(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. 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 department 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. (a) In performing functions vested in it by the Act or delegated to it by this order, the Commission shall consult with the Special Assistant to the President for Personnel Management.

(b) The Special Assistant to the President for Personnel Management may, from time to time and partly or wholly, (1) exclude any specific matter or matters from the operation of the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, and (2) terminate any exclusion effected under this subsection (b).

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

January 15, 1959.

Executive Order 10801

AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 10703,1 AUTHORIZING THE INSPECTION OF CERTAIN TAX RETURNS

By virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 55 (a), 508, 603, 729(a), and 1204 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 (53 Stat. 29, 111, 171; 54 Stat. 989, 1008; 55 Stat. 722; 26 U.S.C. 55(a), 508, 603, 729(a) and 1204), and by section 6103(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (68A Stat. 753; 26 U.S.C. 6103 (a)), Executive Order No. 10703 of March 17, 1957, entitled "Inspection of Income, Excess-Profits, Declared-Value ExcessProfits, Capital-Stock, Estate, and Gift Tax Returns by the Select Committee of the Senate Established by Senate Resolution 74, 85th Congress, to Investigate Improper Activities in Labor-Management Relations, and for Other Purposes," is hereby amended by striking out "for the years 1945 to 1957, inclusive, shall, during the Eighty-fifth Congress," and inserting in lieu thereof "for the years 1945 to 1959, inclusive, shall, during the Eighty-fifth Congress and as

122 F.R. 1797; 3 CFR, 1957 Supp., p. 63.