10254    Terminating the Philippine Alien Property Administration and
          Transferring its Functions to the Department of Justice
          Signed: June 15, 1951
          Federal Register page and date: 16 FR 5829, June 19, 1951
          See: EO 9818, January 7, 1947

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        EX. ORD. NO. 10254. TERMINATION OF PHILIPPINE ALIEN PROPERTY
     ADMINISTRATION AND TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS TO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

      Ex. Ord. No. 10254, June 15, 1951, 16 F.R. 5829, provided:

      1. The Philippine Alien Property Administration, established by
    Executive Order No. 9818 of January 7, 1947 (formerly set out as
    note under this section), is hereby terminated.  All authority,
    rights, privileges, powers, duties, and functions vested in such
    Administration or in the Philippine Alien Property Administrator or
    transferred or delegated thereto are hereby vested in or
    transferred or delegated to the Attorney General, as the case may
    be, and shall be administered by him or under his direction and
    control by such officers and agencies of the Department of Justice
    as he may designate.

      2. All property or interests vested in or transferred to the
    Philippine Alien Property Administration or the Administrator
    thereof, and all proceeds thereof, which are held or administered
    by the Philippine Alien Property Administration or the
    Administrator thereof are hereby transferred to the Attorney
    General of the United States.

      3. All personnel, records, files, furniture, funds,
    authorizations, equipment, and supplies of the Philippine Alien
    Property Administration are hereby transferred to the Department of
    Justice.

      4. All necessary expenses incurred in the administration or
    operation of the functions, duties, authority, rights, privileges,
    and powers hereby vested in or transferred or delegated to the
    Attorney General shall be paid, to the extent permitted and in the
    manner prescribed by law, from funds or property or interests
    vested in or transferred to the Attorney General by or pursuant to
    the authority contained in this order, so as to prevent diminution
    of funds otherwise available for the War Claims Fund under section
    39 of the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended by section 12 of
    the act of July 3, 1948, 62 Stat. 1246 (section 39 of Title 50,
    Appendix, War and National Defense).

      This order shall become effective at the close of business in
    Washington, D.C., on June 29, 1951, and shall at that time
    supersede all prior Executive orders to the extent that they are in
    conflict with this order.                            Harry S Truman.


               TRANSFER OF ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN FUNCTIONS


      Functions of Alien Property Custodian and Office of Alien
    Property Custodian, except those relating to property or interests
    in Philippines, vested in Attorney General. See notes set out under
    section 6 of Title 50, Appendix, War and National Defense.