Jury Trials in the Canal Zone


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

That paragraph 1 of Executive Order No. 750, dated February 6, 1908, providing for jury trials in the Canal Zone, is hereby amended to read, as follows:

  1. In all criminal prosecutions in the Canal Zone for felonies, the accused shall enjoy the right of trial by an impartial jury of the District in which the crime shall have been committed, to be chosen as follows:


This Order shall take effect on and after July 4, 1913.

Signature of Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson.

The White House

June 30, 1913.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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