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Executive Order 5250—Establishing a Pardon Board for the Panama Canal Zone

December 31, 1929

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 7 of the act of Congress approved August 24, 1912, known as "The Panama Canal Act," as amended by the act of Congress of September 21, 1922, section 1 of the Executive order of March 5, 1924, is amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 1. The Governor of the Panama Canal is hereby empowered to grant pardons, paroles, and reprieves for offenses against the laws, orders, and regulations of the Canal Zone, and to commute sentences and remit fines and forfeitures: Provided, however, That no pardon, parole, reprieve, or commutation of sentence shall be granted by the governor, and no fine or forfeiture shall be remitted, until an application therefor shall have been submitted to a pardon board of five members, to be designated by the governor, and approved in writing by the majority thereof."

Signature of Herbert Hoover
HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
December 31, 1929.

Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5250—Establishing a Pardon Board for the Panama Canal Zone Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/360943

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