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be added, willing to vest in President Roosevelt more author- 

 ity than in President Hoover, Congress on March 3, 1933 

 passed another act for the reorganization of the executive 

 departments. 60 



Under this act the President was authorized to group, 

 coordinate and consolidate executive and administrative 

 agencies of the government according to major purposes. 

 In carrying out the provisions of this act he was empowered 

 to transfer, consolidate, or abolish the whole or part of any 

 executive agency by executive order with the exception that 

 he might not abolish any one of the ten executive depart- 

 ments. 



All such executive orders must be submitted to Congress 

 but would automatically go into effect at the expiration of 

 sixty calendar days unless Congress should prior to that 

 time pass an act to the contrary. As the President has a 

 veto power over all the acts of Congress, this provision 

 meant in effect that executive orders would go into effect 

 unless opposed by at least two-thirds of each house, which, 

 in view of the overwhelming Democratic majority, was very 

 unlikely. The one important limitation upon the President's 

 power was the provision that terminated the President's 

 authority two years from the date of the passage of the act, 

 that is, on March 3, 1935. 



To date, a number of such executive orders have been 

 issued by President Roosevelt but no general reorganization 

 has been attempted. The only order affecting a conserva- 

 tion bureau was that of June 10, 1933 which created the 

 Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations. 61 

 This new agency brought together the National Park Ser- 



60 47 Stat. L. 1517. 



61 Changed back to National Park Service by appropriation act for 

 fiscal year 1935. 



