Distribution of orders across Justice Jackson's constitutional tiers:
Evaluated strictly through the U.S. Constitution (Articles I–VII) & Amendments from an Early Statesman's prism
The administration of the National Prohibition Act in those Islands, now known as the Virgin Islands of the United States, is hereby transferred from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of the Navy.
Warren G. Harding By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Act of Congress approved March 12, 1914, entitled "An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes," I hereby authorize and direct…
Warren G. Harding I hereby make the following orders, rules and regulations: 1. I hereby vest in the Alien Property Custodian all power and authority conferred upon me by the provisions of Section 9 of the Act approved October 6, 1917, known as the "Trading with the Enemy Act," as amended March…
Warren G. Harding The following named persons who were separated from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing are eligible to reenter any part of the classified service in appropriate positions for a period of five years from March 31, 1922, on certificate of the Civil Service Commission: P.J.…
Warren G. Harding There is hereby created the Federal Council of Citizenship Training. The membership of this Council shall consist of one representative and one alternate appointed as designated below from each of the following Federal offices: I. The Department of the Interior, (Bureau of…
Warren G. Harding The following described tract of approximately 13.5 acres within the area withdrawn by Executive Order of November 14, 1901, for Navajo Indians be, and the same is hereby, eliminated from the reservation created by said withdrawal: Beginning at a point in the southern line of…
Warren G. Harding The military reservation known as Fort Apache, situated in Navajo County, State of Arizona, containing an approximate area of 7,579.75 acres, set apart for military purposes by Executive Order dated February 1, 1877, having become useless for military purposes, the same is…
Warren G. Harding I, Warren G. Harding, hereby create and establish an Interdepartmental Patents Board whose duty it shall be to recommend through the Secretary of the Interior, for my approval, suitable regulations establishing the policy to be followed by the Government with respect to…
Warren G. Harding The executive order of October 14, 1921, granting certain preference in connection with presidential postmaster examinations to persons who served in the World War, is hereby amended to extend the same preference to honorably discharged veterans of the Spanish-American War.
Warren G. Harding On and after this date the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, James L. Wilmeth, and the Assistant Director, James M.. Fisher, are removed. Louis A. Hill is hereby appointed to be Director, and John P. Perry to be Assistant Director.
Warren G. Harding The following-described lands in the State of New Mexico, containing an aggregate area of 386.85 acres, be, and they are hereby, temporarily withdrawn from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposition until March 5, 1924: Township 15 north, range 2 East; lots 4, 5, and 6, and…
Warren G. Harding I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of said Act, hereby select, designate and appoint the American Relief Administration as the relief organization to receive from the War, Navy and Treasury Departments, and the…
Warren G. Harding I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of said act hereby appoint the Secretary of Commerce, James P. Goodrich, of Indiana, Edward M. Flesh, of Missouri, Edgar Rickard, of New York, Don Livingston, of South Dakota…
Warren G. Harding Whereas, an Executive Order of March 9, 1903, of President Roosevelt directed that certain historical archives in the Department of State, known as the Revolutionary Archives, being the papers of the Continental Congress, George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson…
Warren G. Harding I hereby prescribe the following rules and regulations with regard to the preparation and submission of the Budget and the conduct of the Bureau of the Budget. Revision of the Estimates .
Warren G. Harding Hereafter the recital immediately preceding the President's signature in proclamations, commissions, and other formal documents of like nature shall be in the following form: Done at the City of Washington this..........day of..........in the year of our Lord.........., and of…
Warren G. Harding While the appointment of Presidential postmasters is not within the legal scope of the civil service law and, therefore, as a matter of law, no "preference" is applicable thereto, yet, in order that those young men and women who served in the World War, having their scholastic…
Warren G. Harding I hereby prescribe the following rules and regulations with regard to the preparation and submission of the Budget and the conduct of the Bureau of the Budget: Revision of the Estimates .
Warren G. Harding Essential matters relating to the design of medals, insignia and coins, produced by the executive departments, also the designs of statues, fountains and monuments, and all important plans for parks and all public buildings, constructed by executive departments or the District…
Warren G. Harding The administration of that portion of said act relating to the withdrawal, location and disposition of townsites shall be in accordance with the following regulations and provisions, to wit: RESERVATIONS.—The Alaskan Engineering Commission will file with the Secretary of the…
Warren G. Harding Under the provisions of the act of Congress approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat 437), authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to lease producing oil wells within any naval petroleum reserve; authorizing the President to permit the drilling of additional wells or to lease the…
Warren G. Harding Direct that the National Flag be displayed at half staff upon all the public buildings of the United States; that The White House and the several Executive Departments and Independent Government Establishments in the City of Washington be closed on the day of his funeral; that…
Warren G. Harding All the lands hereinafter described and comprising the military reservation of Fort Duchesne, Utah, as described in Executive order No. 1579, dated August 19, 1912, originally reserved for military purposes by Executive order dated September 1, 1887 (G.O. No. 59, A.G.O.…
Warren G. Harding By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Act approved May 22, 1918, entitled "An Act to Prevent in Time of War Departure from and Entry into the United States Contrary to the Public Safety," I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States of America, hereby amend the…
Warren G. Harding When a vacancy exists or hereafter occurs in the position of postmaster at an office of the first, second or third class, if such vacancy is not filled by nomination of some person with the competitive classified Civil Service who has the required qualifications, then the…
Warren G. Harding The east half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-nine, township eight south, range twenty-one east of the Mount Diablo meridian, in California, withdrawn for Indian use by Executive Order 2023, dated August 14, 1914, be, and the same is hereby, restored to its former…
Warren G. Harding The War Department is hereby directed to take over the records of the following organizations: Council of National Defense; War Industries Board; Committee on Public Information; War Labor Board.
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