Executive Order No. 2720

[Giving chief of staff control over War Department in absence of Secretary of War and Assistant Secretary of War.]

THE WHITE HOUSE, 29 September, 1917.

  In accordance with the provisions of Section 179 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by an Act making appropriations for the legis- lative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government, approved August 5, 1882 (22 Stats., 238), the Chief of Staff, United States Army, is authorized and directed to perform the duties of Secretary of War during the illness or temporary absence from the seat of Gov- ernment of the Secretary of War, whenever during such illness or absence the Assistant Secretary of War is also absent.

  WOODROW WILSON.

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