# Executive Order 5644

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Signed by President Herbert Hoover Monday, June 8, 1931
Designation of Unhealthful Posts in the Foreign Service
Under and pursuant to the provisions of section 26, paragraph (k), of the act of Congress approved February 23, 1931 (46 Stat. 1212), which paragraph reads as follows:
| “(k) | The President is authorized from time to time to establish, by Executive order, a list of places which by reason of climatic or other extreme conditions are to be classed as unhealthful posts, and each year of duty subsequent to January 1, 1900, at such posts inclusive of regular leaves of absence, of officers already retired or hereafter retired, shall be counted as one year and a half, and so on in like proportion in reckoning the length of service for the purpose of retirement, fractional months being considered as full months in computing such service: Provided, however, That the President may at any time cancel the designation of any places as unhealthful without affecting any credit which has accrued for service at such posts prior to the date of the cancellation.” |
the following places, which include those heretofore established as unhealthful posts for the purpose of retirement, under the act of May 24, 1924, by Executive orders dated April 1, 1925, October 20, 1927, November 28, 1927, and April 10, 1930, which Executive orders are hereby canceled, such cancellation to be effective July 1, 1931, are hereby established as unhealthful posts for the purposes of retirement within the meaning of the law above quoted, which supersedes the act of May 24, 1924:
| Acapulco, Mexico Aden, Arabia Alvaro Obregon (Frontera), Mexico Amoy, China Antilla, Cuba Asunción, Paraguay Baghdad, Iraq Bahia, Brazil Bangkok, Siam Barranquilla, Colombia Batavia, Java Belize, British Honduras Bluefields, Nicaragua Bombay, India Buenaventura, Colombia Caibarien, Cuba Calcutta, India Canton, China Cartagena, Colombia Ceiba, Honduras Changsha, China Chungking, China Cienfuegos, Cuba Colombo, Ceylon Corinto, Nicaragua Dakar, Senegal Foochow, China Georgetown, British Guiana Guayaquil, Ecuador Guaymas, Mexico Habana, Cuba Hankow, China Hong Kong Karachi, India Lagos, Nigeria La Guaira, Venezuela La Paz, Bolivia Léopoldville, Belgian Congo Loanda, Angola Lourengo Marques, East Africa | Madras, India Managua, Nicaragua Manáos, Brazil Manzanillo, Cuba Manzanillo, Mexico Maracaibo, Venezuela Martinique, French West Indies Matanzas, Cuba Mazatlán, Mexico Medan, Sumatra Monrovia, Liberia Nanking, China Nuevitas, Cuba Pará, Brazil Penang, Straits Settlements Pernambuco, Brazil Port Limón, Costa Rica Progreso, Mexico Puerto Barrios, Guatemala Puerto Cabello, Venezuela Puerto Castilla, Honduras Puerto Cortes, Honduras Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic Rangoon, India Sagua la Grande, Cuba Saigon, French Indo-China Salina Cruz, Mexico Santa Marta, Colombia Santiago, Cuba Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Shanghai, China Singapore, Straits Settlements Surabaya, Java Swatow, China Taihoku, Taiwan Tampico, Mexico Tananarive, Madagascar Tela, Honduras Vera Cruz, Mexico |
This order shall become effective July 1, 1931.

## Notes

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Revokes (effective July 1, 1931):
* Executive Order 4187, April 1, 1925;
* Executive Order 4744, October 20, 1927;
* Executive Order 4772, November 28, 1927;
* Executive Order 5324, April 10, 1930

### Amended by

* Executive Order 6942, January 8, 1935;
* Executive Order 7062, June 5, 1935

### Supplemented by

* Executive Order 10000, September 16, 1948

### See Related

* Executive Order 5642, June 8, 1931;
* Executive Order 5643, June 8, 1931
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