THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

By His Excellency

Maurice J. Tobin

Executive Order No. 93

    WHEREAS, the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, Act of
June 30, 1942 (56 U.S. Stat. at L. 23), as amended and extended,
is by its terms about to expire; and

    WHEREAS, due to the lack of housing facilities in the Common-
wealth of Massachusetts an emergency exists; and

    WHEREAS, a further emergency exists due to lack of housing
facilities for veterans of World War II who have returned to the
Commonwealth and their families; and

    WHEREAS, appropriate action is necessary in order to protect
the health and welfare of the citizens and said veterans and their
families in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by preventing un-
reasonable or exorbitant rents from being charged, levied or
collected from citizens or veterans and their families who lease
or rent homes, apartments or tenements in which they live:

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, Maurice J. Tobin, Governor of the Common-
wealth of Massachusetts, acting under the provisions of Acts of
1941, chapter 719, section 7, as amended by the Acts of 1943,
chapter 3, and Acts of 1942, chapter 13, sections 2 and 3, and all
other authority vested in me, do hereby issue this order as a
measure necessary and expedient for meeting the supreme emergency
of the existing state of war between the United States and certain
foreign countries.

    During the continuance of the existing state of war no person
shall within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts charge, receive or
agree to receive rent for housing accommodation in excess of the
maximum rent permitted to be charged for such housing accommodation
as established by the rules, regulations, directives or orders
issued by the Office of Price Administration through the Price
Administrator or his duly authorized representative or representa-
tives under authority of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942,
as amended and extended, heretofore referred to, which were in force
on June 30, 1946.

GIVEN at the Executive Chamber in Boston,
this first day of July
in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and forty-six, and of the
Independence of the United States of
America, the one hundred and seventieth.

By His Excellency the Governor,
Marice J. Tobin
at 12:01 July 1, 1946

Secretary of the Commonwealth
Deputy William N. Hardy

GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS