Executive Order 1140

Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:

That no operator, train dispatcher, or other employe of the Panama Railroad Company who by the use of the telegraph or telephone dispatches, reports, transmits, receives, or delivers orders pertaining to or affecting train movements shall be required or permitted to be or remain on duty for a longer period than nine hours in any twenty-four-hour period in all towers, offices, places, and stations continuously operated night and day, nor for a longer period than thirteen hours in all towers, offices, places and stations operated only during the daytime, except in case of emergency, when the employes named in this order may be permitted to be and remain on duty for four additional hours in a twenty-four period on not exceeding three days in any week.

This order shall be in effect on and after January 1, 1910.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

November 23, 1909.