Executive Order 1198

Hon. Charles B. Elliott, Secretary of Commerce and Police of the Philippine Islands, Lieut.-Colonel George P. Scriven, U. S. Army, and Commander Chester M. Knepper, U. S. Navy, are hereby appointed a board to study and make recommendations relating to the construction, operation, maintenance, and management of a system of wireless telegraphy for the Philippine Islands, and as to the relations of the Army, the Navy, the government of the Philippines, and the commercial community to it.

The report of the board will be forwarded to the Secretary of War for the information of a board which will be appointed at Washington to determine finally the questions involved.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

April 30, 1910.