The Secretary of the Treasury will make arrangements for handling the funds, determining, after such consultation as may be necessary, how much shall be shipped abroad and how the sums which will be required to be expended by the other Departments shall be drawn against and accounted for.
Executive Order 2012—For the Relief, Protection and Transportation Home of Americans in Europe at the Outbreak of the...
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