Executive Order 729

by President of the United States

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

That Title XIV of Act No. 14 of the Penal Code of the Laws of the Canal Zone be amended, effective January 15, 1908, by adding thereto the following section:

Section 293-A.

Sub-section 1. Every vagrant or person found within the Canal Zone without legitimate business or visible means of support; and

Sub-section 2. Every mendicant or habitual beggar found within the Canal Zone; and

Sub-section 3. Every person found within or loitering about any laborers' camp, mess house, quarters, or other Isthmian Canal Commission building, or any railroad car, or station or other building of the Panama Railroad Company, or any dwelling or other building owned by any private person, without due and proper authority and permission so to be; or peddling goods or merchandise about any laborers' camp or mess house daring hours when laborers are ordinarily employed at work, or in or about places where groups of men are at work; and

Sub-section 4. Every person found in the Canal Zone in an intoxicated condition or under the influence of liquor; and

Sub-section 5. Every person who shall, in the Canal Zone, engage in any kind of disorderly conduct or breach or disturbance of the peace; shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $25, or by imprisonment in jail not to exceed 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House,

January 9, 1908.