Executive Order No. 6202a.  July 11, 1933

Order creating executive council

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Act of Congress
respectively entitled "An Act for the relief of unemployment
through the performance of useful public work, and for other
purposes," approved March 31, 1933 (Public No. 5, 73d Congress),
and "An Act to encourage national industrial recovery,
to foster fair competition, and to provide for the construction
of certain useful public works, and for other purposes," approved
June 16, 1933 (Public No. 67, 73d Congress), and in order to
provide for the orderly presentation of business and to coordinate
inter-agency problems of organization and work of the new
governmental agencies therefore:

  1.  I hereby appoint a temporary Executive Council consisting
of the following:

The President of the United States
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of State
The Secretary of War
The Attorney General
The Postmaster General
The Secretary of Navy
The Secretary of the Interior
The Secretary of Agriculture
The Secretary of Commerce
The Secretary of Labor
The Director of the Budget
The Administrator of National Recovery
The Administrator of Agricultural Adjustment
The Administrator of Federal Emergency Relief
The Federal Coordinator of Transportation
The Governor of the Farm Credit Administration
The Chairman of the Board of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
The Chairman of the Board of the Home Owners Loan Corporation
The Chairman of the Board of the Tennessee Valley Authority
The Director of Emergency Conservation Work
The Secretary to the President
The Hon. L.W. Robert, Jr., Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury
The Executive Secretary

and such other members as the President may designate.

  In the absence of the President, the senior Cabinet Member
present shall preside at the meetings of this Executive Council,
which shall be held each Tuesday at 2:00 o'clock, p.m. in the
Cabinet Chamber of the White House.

  2.  I hereby appoint Frank C. Walker to exercise temporarily
the office of Executive Secretary of the Executive Council,
subject to such duties as may be prescribed him by the President.

  3.  The Executive Secretary is hereby authorized to purchase
such necessary equipment, books and materials, and to employ
such necessary personnel on a temporary basis, as may be approved
by the President; and the Federal Emergency Administrator
of Public Works is hereby directed to allot to the Executive
Secretary the necessary funds for such disbursements as are
hereby authorized, subject to the approval of the Director of the
Budget.