Executive Order 2987

by President of the United States

Guarapo Naval Air Station.

1. The areas hereinafter described situated within the Canal Zone are hereby set apart and assigned for the uses of a naval air station, and other naval purposes, under the control of the Secretary of the Navy; but the said areas shall be subject to the civil jurisdiction of the Canal Zone authorities in conformity with the Panama Canal Act.
   
   
2. The said areas are described as follows:
   
   
   1. That Island named Guarapo Island, In its entirety and shown on Hydrographic Office Chart No. 5000, dated December, 1914, lying to the westward of and approximately parallel to the Canal prism, and directly to the southward of Gatun Dam, between latitudes approximately 9° 14' 50" north and 9° 15' 40" north, and longitudes approximately 79° 55' 44" west, and 79° 56' 04" west; together with the small islets immediately adjacent to the westward.
      
      
   2. The water area lying between the Canal prism and the Island of Guarapo, also the water areas off of the northerly, westerly and southerly shores of said island, to a distance of two hundred (200) yards.
      
      
3. The said areas are more particularly described on blueprint No. 4301-16, dated the 27th day of September, 1918, issued by the Governor of The Panama Canal.
   
   

Woodrow Wilson 

The White House,

November 4, 1918.

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