Executive Order 1751

To Amend an Executive Order Approved February 5, 1912, Providing an Inexpensive Method for the Administration of the Estates of Deceased and Insane Persons in Certain Cases, Etc.

By virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby establish the following Executive Order for the Canal Zone:

Section 1. That Section 1 of an Executive Order entitled: "Executive Order to provide an inexpensive method for the administration of estates of deceased and insane persons in certain cases, and to repeal Act 24 of the Canal Zone laws and the Executive Orders amendatory thereto," and the first paragraph of Section 8 of said Order, are hereby amended so as to read, as follows:

Section 1. Whenever an employee in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission, or the Government of the Canal Zone; or the Panama Railroad Company, shall die, leaving an estate in the said Zone, or whenever such decedent, being a citizen of the United States, leaves an estate in the Canal Zone or in the Republic of Panama; and the said estate consists of personal property only and a regular administration shall not have been instituted in the Courts of the Canal Zone thereon, the Collector of Revenues for the Canal Zone is hereby authorized and directed to take possession of the estate of the said deceased person and to make a complete inventory thereof and present the same to the Judge of the Circuit Court of the First Judicial Circuit of the Canal Zone to be filed by the said judge in the records of his court when approved by him.

Section 8. If an employee of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Government of the Canal Zone, or the Panama Railroad Company should be adjudged insane by the Canal Zone Courts and the estate consists entirely of personal property and no regular guardianship of such estate shall have been instituted by the Canal Zone Courts, it shall be the duty of the Collector of Revenues to take possession of the estate of such insane person, including any salary or other acknowledged claim due to such employee by the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Canal Zone Government or the Panama Railroad Company, and make a complete inventory thereof and file the same with the Judge of the Circuit Court of the First Judicial Circuit of the Canal Zone, and under the direction and with the approval of the Judge of said court, the Collector of Revenues may pay the lawful indebtedness due by the insane person, as well as the expenses incurred in administrating the said estate and he shall hold the residue of the estate subject to the orders of the Circuit Judge.

Section 2. This amendment shall apply to the estates of employes who died or became insane prior to this date as well as to those who die or are adjudged insane hereafter.

Section 3. This Order shall take effect from and after this date.

Woodrow Wilson.

The White House

March 20, 1913.