Prescribing Regulations Governing Payment of Losses Sustained by Officers, Enlisted Men, and Employees of the United States While in Service in Foreign Countries on Account of Appreciation of Foreign Currencies in Their Relation to the American Dollar

Signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on September 15, 1938.

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Supersedes EO 6928, December 24, 1934

Amended by EO 8018, December 2, 1938; EO 8261, September 21, 1939; EO 8269, October 11, 1939; EO 8800, June 22, 1941; EO 9057, February 11, 1942; EO 9261, October 31, 1942; EO 9449, June 15, 1944

Revoked by EO 9687, January 26, 1946

See EO 6657-A, May 27, 1934

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