Executive Order 8536—Establishing San Clemente Island Naval Defensive Sea Area

CALIFORNIA

Executive Order No. 7747, dated November 20, 1937, establishing a defensive sea area off the coast of San Clemente Island, California, is hereby amended by substituting the words "one nautical mile" for the words "three hundred yards" as they appear in the first paragraph thereof, and by adding at the end of said first paragraph the following words: "Said defensive sea area shall be known as San Clemente Island Naval Defensive Sea Area". As thus amended said Executive order reads as follows:

"By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the provisions of section 44 of the Criminal Code, as amended (U.S.C., title 18, sec. 96), the area of water surrounding San Clemente Island, California, extending from low-water mark out for a distance of one nautical mile beyond low-water mark, is hereby established as a defensive sea area for purposes of national defense, subject to the uses reserved for the Department of Commerce in Executive Order No. 6897, dated November 7, 1934. Said defensive sea area shall be known as San Clemente Island Naval Defensive Sea Area.

"At no time shall vessels or other craft be navigated within the defensive sea area above defined except such as are authorized by the Secretary of the Navy.

"Any person violating the provisions of this order shall be subject to the penalties provided by law."

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
September 6, 1940.