Executive Order 1230

By virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby establish the following Executive order for the Canal Zone and its auxiliary lands and waters:

Section 1. The Isthmian Canal Commission is hereby empowered to establish rules and regulations to facilitate and protect the works of excavation, dredging, and other canal construction within the Canal Zone and the lands and waters auxiliary thereto; as well as such rules and regulations respecting the use, or passage through any of the canal channels, lakes, and other auxiliary waters as from time to time the Commission may deem needful to fully protect such channels, lakes, and auxiliary waters, and to facilitate and protect the operations of canal construction therein.

The rules and regulations that may be adopted by the Canal Commission in accordance with the provisions of this order shall have the force and effect of law when approved by the Secretary of War.

Section 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of the rules and regulations established hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment in the district jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

July 25, 1910.