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Executive Order 1613

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It is hereby ordered that the following named harbors, viz:

Tortugas, Florida;
Great Harbor, Culebra;
Guantanamo Naval Station, Cuba;
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii;
Guam;
Subig Bay, Philippine Islands;
Kiska, Aleutian Islands;

are not, and that they shall not be made, sub-ports of entry for foreign vessels of commerce, and that said harbors shall not be visited by any commercial or privately owned vessel of foreign registry, nor by any foreign national vessel, except by special authority of the United States Navy Department in each case.

Signature of William Howard Taft
Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

September 23, 1912.


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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