Executive Order 794

The following named gentlemen are designated as members of a Commission, hereby created, to examine the laws of the United States for the better security of the lives of passengers and crews on board vessels of the United States, with a view to their revision, and to recommend to me such changes as, in their judgment, the public interests seem to require:

Capt. Adolph Marx, U. S. N., Chairman of the Light-House Board, Chairman.

Hon. Charles Earl, Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor.

Hon. Eugene T. Chamberlain, Commissioner of Navigation.

Hon. George Uhler, Supervising Inspector-General, Steamboat Inspection Service.

Commander William Strother Smith, U. S. N.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House,

May 12, 1908.