Executive Order 2907

Whereas a national emergency exists of the character contemplated in Section 1 under Title II of the Act of Congress approved June 15, 1917, commonly known as the Espionage Act;

Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by the said Act of Congress, do hereby authorize the Governor of The Panama Canal to exercise, within the territory and waters of the Canal Zone, all the powers mentioned in said Section 1, Title II, of said Act, to the same extent as is conferred therein on the Secretary of the Treasury with regard to the territorial waters of the United States, and all acts heretofore done by the Governor of the Panama Canal or under his authority pursuant to said section of said act are hereby ratified and confirmed.

This order supersedes Executive Order Number 2867 dated May 28, 1918.

Woodrow Wilson 

The White House,

9 July, 1918.