Executive Order 2790

by President of the United States

By virtue of the authority vested in me by ‘‘An Act to define, regulate and punish trading with the enemy,’’ approved October 6, 1917, I hereby make and establish the following order:

The following sums or so much thereof as may be necessary are hereby allotted out of the funds appropriated by the Trading with the Enemy Act to the following named officers:

To the War Trade Board...................................	$155,000.00,
To the Alien Property Custodian........................	$ 80,000.00,
To the Secretary of the Treasury........................	$ 10,000.00,
To the Federal Trade Commission......................	$ 5,000.00,

to be expended in the administration of the powers vested respectively in them by law, or by any order heretofore or hereafter made by me.

Woodrow Wilson 

The White House,

January 22, 1918.

Notes

See Related

• Executive Order 2729-A, October 12, 1917;
• Executive Order 2770, December 7, 1917;
• Executive Order 2796, January 26, 1918;
• Executive Order 2801, February 6, 1918