Summary

Executive Order 6166

As to any case referred to the Department of Justice for prosecution or defense in the courts, the function of decision whether and in what manner to prosecute, or to defend, or to compromise, or to appeal, or to abandon prosecution or defense, now exercised by any agency or officer, is transferred to the Department of Justice. For the exercise of such of his functions as are not transferred to the Department of Justice by the foregoing two paragraphs, the Solicitor of the Treasury is transferred from the Department of Justice to the Treasury Department.
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Executive Order 6166

The Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department is authorized to establish local offices, or to delegate the exercise of its functions locally to officers or employees of other agencies, according as the interests of efficiency and economy may require.
The Division of Disbursement shall disburse moneys only upon the certification of persons by law duly authorized to incur obligations upon behalf of the United States. The function of accountability for improper certification shall be transferred to such persons, and no disbursing officer shall be held accountable therefor.
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Executive Order 6166

Section 18.— The following functions are abolished in part:
Cooperative vocational education and rehabilitation, 25 percent thereof. Payments for agricultural experiment stations, 25 percent thereof. Cooperative agricultural extension work, 25 percent thereof. Endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, 25 percent thereof.
Section 19.—General Provisions Each agency, all the functions of which are transferred to or consolidated with another agency, is abolished.
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