Executive Order 3237

by President of the United States

The area of land hereinafter described situated in the jurisdiction of the Canal Zone is hereby set apart and assigned to the uses and purposes of a radio station, and other naval purposes, under the control of the Secretary of the Navy; but the said area shall be subject to the civil jurisdiction of the Canal Zone authorities in conformity with the Panama Canal Act. The said area is described as follows:

PUNTA MALA NAVAL RADIO STATION.

The said radio station is part of the tract of land heretofore set apart for the uses and purposes of the Punta Mala Lighthouse of The Panama Canal, and comes within the following metes and bounds:

Commencing at the southernmost point of the said Radio Station, which point is designated on the blueprint herewith attached numbered 6030-2, dated June 18, 1919, and signed O. E. Malsbury, Assistant Engineer, as Point "B," and is marked by a concrete monument; thence north seventy degrees, ten minutes, thirty-one seconds (N 70° 10′ 31″) west, five hundred and seventy-eight feet (578′) more or less, to a concrete monument at the intersection of this line with the western boundary of the Punta Mala Lighthouse Reservation, designated on said blueprint with the letter "D"; thence north (true) six hundred and ten feet (610′), more or less, to the intersection with the low water shore line of the cove at the northern end of the Reservation. The line then follows the shore line of the cove to the northern end of the small point, thence following the low water shore line in a southerly direction until the point "F," shown on the blueprint, is reached. The line then runs south sixty-one degrees, three minutes, twenty-nine seconds (S 61° 03′ 29″) west, a distance of five hundred and eighty-nine and five tenths feet (589.5′) to the place of beginning marked "B" on the said blueprint. The total area of the Radio Station is approximately thirteen and seven tenths (13.7) acres.

The shelter cove at the northern boundary of the Radio Station which is used at high tide for landing supplies for the lighthouse as well as the Radio Station, shall be available for use of both the Lighthouse and Radio services, and a right of way is hereby allowed to Punta Mala Lighthouse service through the Naval Reservation for the purpose of transporting supplies to and from the Lighthouse Reservation and the said landing.

Woodrow Wilson 

The White House,

1 March, 1920.