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Executive Order 2006—Establishing a Wireless Telegraph Station in the Canal Zone for Use of the Navy

July 30, 1914

The area of land hereinafter described, situated in the Canal Zone, is hereby set apart and assigned to the uses and purposes of a radio station and other naval purposes under the control of the Secretary of the Navy; but said area shall be subject to the civil jurisdiction of the Canal Zone authorities in conformity with the Panama Canal Act.

The said area is described as Darien Naval Radio Station and is shown by the blue print No. 3846, dated March 30, 1914, issued by the Department of Construction and Engineering, Isthmian Canal Commission, office of the Assistant to the Chief Engineer.

WOODROW WILSON

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 30, 1914.

Woodrow Wilson, Executive Order 2006—Establishing a Wireless Telegraph Station in the Canal Zone for Use of the Navy Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/275225

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