AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 7747 OF NOVEMBER 20, 1937, AS AMENDED, ESTABLISHING THE SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND NAVAL DEFENSIVE SEA AREA1
Executive Order No. 7747 of November 20, 1937, as amended by Executive Order 8536 of September 6, 1940,2 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the provisions of section 44 of the Criminal Code, as amended (18 U. S. C. 96), the area of water surrounding San Clemente Island, California, extended from low-water mark out for a distance of three hundred yards beyond the low-water mark, except in Wilson Cove, where it is to extend one hundred yards beyond low-water mark, and including that part of Pyramid Cove lying north of a line between a point one thousand yards south of China Point light and a point three hundred yards south of White washed Rock, is hereby established as a defensive sea area for purposes of national defense, subject to the uses reserved for the Department of Commerce by Executive Order 6897 of November 7, 1934. The said area shall be known as San Clemente Island Naval Defensive Sea Area.
"At no time shall vessels or other craft be navigated within the defensive sea area above defined except such as are authorized by the Secretary of the Navy.
"Any person violating the provisions of this order shall be subject to the penalties provided by law."
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 5, 1946
1 Tabulated in ยง 9.3 of Title 34.
2 3 CFR Cum. Supp.
Executive Order No. 7747 of November 20, 1937, as amended by Executive Order 8536 of September 6, 1940,2 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the provisions of section 44 of the Criminal Code, as amended (18 U. S. C. 96), the area of water surrounding San Clemente Island, California, extended from low-water mark out for a distance of three hundred yards beyond the low-water mark, except in Wilson Cove, where it is to extend one hundred yards beyond low-water mark, and including that part of Pyramid Cove lying north of a line between a point one thousand yards south of China Point light and a point three hundred yards south of White washed Rock, is hereby established as a defensive sea area for purposes of national defense, subject to the uses reserved for the Department of Commerce by Executive Order 6897 of November 7, 1934. The said area shall be known as San Clemente Island Naval Defensive Sea Area.
"At no time shall vessels or other craft be navigated within the defensive sea area above defined except such as are authorized by the Secretary of the Navy.
"Any person violating the provisions of this order shall be subject to the penalties provided by law."
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 5, 1946
1 Tabulated in ยง 9.3 of Title 34.
2 3 CFR Cum. Supp.