Executive Order 7800—Transferring Certain Lands to the Control and Jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy, Cuba

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and by the act of July 11, 1919, 41 Stat. 131, 132 (10 U.S.C., sec. 1274), and in the interest of the national defense, it is ordered that there be, and there is hereby, transferred from the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of War to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy, all that portion of military reservation No. 1 at Cuzco Hills, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, created by order of the President dated January 9, 1904, that lies north of an imaginary east and west line 4,000 feet due north of the Windward Point Lighthouse, with the following exceptions:

(1) That portion of military reservation No. 1 that was transferred by the Secretary of War to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor on September 18, 1905, for a lighthouse depot.

(2) Existing rights of certain telegraph and cable companies heretofore granted under Presidential licenses.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
January 27, 1938.