Mrs. Carmen B. Knox may be appointed as a clerk in the Post Office Department in the classified service without compliance with the requirements of the civil-service rules.

It is ordered that the public land in Alaska... be, and it is hereby, temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry.

I hereby approve said amendment and modify my previous approval of the Code of Fair Competition for the Distilled Spirits Rectifying Industry to include an approval of said Code in its entirety as hereby amended.

I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, pursuant to said Code of Fair Competition for the Construction…

Executive Order No. 5172, dated August 9, 1929, withdrawing public lands in secs. 4 to 9, 16 to 21, 28 to 30, inclusive, T. 3 S., R. 7 E., east half T. 5 S., R. 7 E., and secs. 6, 7, 18, and 19, T. 5 S., R. 8 E. of the principal meridian…

It is ordered that Executive Order No. 6910, dated November 26, 1934, temporarily withdrawing all public land in certain States, be, and it is hereby, modified to the extent of authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw the…

Business was substantially more active during the fiscal year 1934 than in either of the two preceding fiscal years.

The estimated expenditures for the fiscal year 1936 total in round figures $8,520,000,000.

During the first 5 months of the current fiscal year the Government expended for recovery and relief $1,712,000,000.

At the end of the fiscal year 1934, the Bureau of Labor Statistics index of wholesale commodity prices stood at 74.8 percent of its 1926 average.

The total expenditures of the Government for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1934, amounted to $7,105,000,000.

The total expenditure requirements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, are estimated at approximately $8,581,000,000.

The Budget of the United States Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, is transmitted herewith for your consideration.

The deficit at the end of the fiscal year 1934 was $3,989,500,000 in round figures.

The total receipts of the Government for the fiscal year 1934 reached $3,115,500,000.

I am submitting to the Congress a Budget for the fiscal year 1936, which balances except for expenditures to give work to the unemployed.

I solicit the closest cooperation between the State authorities and the Federal Forest Service.

Maintenance of our forests and the industries dependent upon them is very vital to the welfare of every State.