§ 1383. — Transfer of property by President of United States.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC1383]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 15--THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUBCHAPTER V--PROPERTY RETAINED BY THE UNITED STATES
Sec. 1383. Transfer of property by President of United States
In respect to property not transferable to the Republic of the
Philippines under section 1382 of this title, the President of the
United States is authorized, in his discretion and under such terms and
conditions as he may deem appropriate, to transfer to the Republic of
the Philippines any or all of the right, title, and interest of the
Government of the United States or its agencies or instrumentalities to
any or all real and personal property vested in such agencies or
instrumentalities.
(July 3, 1946, ch. 536, Sec. 4, 60 Stat. 419.)
Ex. Ord. No. 9937. Delegation of President's Authority to Agencies
Participating in the Philippine Recovery Program
Ex. Ord. No. 9937, Mar. 20, 1948, 13 F.R. 1503 as amended by act
June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, Sec. 103(a), 63 Stat. 380; 1949 Reorg.
Plan No. 7, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 19, 1949, 14 F.R. 5228, 63 Stat. 1070;
1950 Reorg. Plan No. 21, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3178, 64 Stat. 1273,
provided:
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the
statutes, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as
follows:
The Commissioner of Public Roads of the Department of Commerce, the
Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, the Philippine War Damage
Commission, the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the
Federal Security Agency [now the Department of Health and Human
Services], the Maritime Administration, the Director of the Fish and
Wildlife Service [now the United States Fish and Wildlife Service] of
the Department of the Interior, and the Administrator of Civil
Aeronautics, the Chief of the Weather Bureau [now the National Weather
Service], and the Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey [now the
National Ocean Survey] of the Department of Commerce are hereby
authorized, as to their respective agencies, to exercise the authority
vested in the President by section 4 of the Philippine Property Act of
1946 (60 Stat. 419) [this section]: Provided, that this authority shall
be exercised only with respect to property located in the Philippines in
the possession and control of the respective agencies and utilized in
carrying out the provisions of Title III of the Philippine
Rehabilitation Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 135) [sections 1781 to 1789 of
Title 50, Appendix, War and National Defense].
