Executive Order 1749
Providing for the Protection of Birds and their Nests In the Canal Zone.
By virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby establish the following Executive Order for the Canal Zone:
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, wilfully disturb or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or to take the eggs of any bird, except in the form and manner permitted by the regulations provided for by this Order.
Sec. 2. The Isthmian Canal Commission, or the Governor of the Panama Canal after the reorganization is established, is hereby empowered and directed to enact suitable regulations, from time to time, for the protection of birds and their nests, and prescribing the form and manner in which birds may be hunted, and the kinds of birds that may be hunted, and those that shall not be molested.
Sec. 3. A violation of any of the regulations established under this Order shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred (100) dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days for each offense.
Sec. 4. This Order shall take effect thirty days after its publication in The Canal Record.[1]
Woodrow Wilson.
The White House
- 19 March, 1913.
Notes edit
- ↑ Published in The Canal Record of April 9, 1913.
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