Executive Order 3130

by President of the United States

1. The area of land hereinafter described as Fort Amador and Fort Grant Reservations, situated In the Canal Zone, is hereby set apart and assigned to the uses and purposes of a Military Reservation and shall be under the control of the Secretary of War; but said area shall be subject to the civil jurisdiction of the Canal Zone authorities in conformity with the Panama Canal Act.
2. The said area is described as follows:
   
   

   Fort Amador and Fort Grant Reservations

   Starting at monument "V" which is a concrete monument whose location is latitude 8° 56′ plus 3602.8 feet, longitude 79° 33′ plus 1556.9 feet, shown on a map on file In the District Engineer Office, Balboa Heights, C. Z., entitled "Reservations of Fort Amador and Fort Grant, C. Z." File No. GP-2308, dated December 28, 1918; thence on a line (azimuth 97° 06′) connecting the said monument "V" with the center of the most southerly foot of the south radio tower, to the intersection of said line with the top of slope, a distance of 63 feet, more or less, which intersection Is marked by a monument, marked "Mon. A" on the map; thence a distance of 534 feet on a line making an azimuth of 80° 44′ to a point just west of the main road to Fort Amador and marked by a peg set into a concrete pad in the gutter, marked "Mon. B" on the map; thence a distance of 405.3 feet on a line making an azimuth 70° 0′ to the intersection with the present boundary line at Balboa Radio Station WZ (Shown on a plan dated March 17, 1915, scale 1 to 600, entitled "U. S. Naval Radio Station, Balboa, C. Z." submitted by F. H. Cooke) marked by a monument called "Mon. C" on the map; thence a distance of 635.4 feet, more or less, on a line making an azimuth of 307° 40′ to a point marked by a monument known as "Monument Z"; thence a distance of 652.4 feet, more or less, on a line making an azimuth of 37° 40′ to a concrete monument, marked "Mon. D" on the map, which monument is on the extreme high water line on the shore of Balboa Harbor; thence along the extreme high water line in a general southeasterly direction along the west bank of the breakwater, around the former islands of Naos, Culebra, Perico and Flamenco back on the east bank of the breakwater and around the east bank of the present Fort Amador post site, on the extreme high water line to a concrete monument marked "Mon. G" on the map; thence on a line the azimuth of which is 37° 40′ for a distance of 63.8 feet to the concrete monument marked "V" on the map which is the point of beginning. Besides the area included In this boundary, the islands of San Jose, Penamarca, Changarmi, Tortolita, Tortola, Cocoviceta, Cocovi and Venado, are also within the reservation of Fort Grant.
   
   

   All Azimuths are true and read from south.
3. All land in this area, north of latitude 8° 56′ will be known as Fort Amador Reservation and all land South, including the islands of San Jose, Penamarca, Changarmi, Tortolita, Tortola, Cocoviceta, Cocovi and Venado, will be known as Fort Grant Reservation. The monuments, marked "Mon. E." and "Mon. F." on the map locating this east and west line (Lat. 8° 56′) are placed oh the extreme high water mark about 730 feet south of gun No. 1, Battery Birney.
4. Executive Order of May 28, 1918, relating to the transferring of a certain portion of land within the Balboa Radio Station Reservation from the control of the Secretary of the Navy to the control of the Secretary of War is hereby rescinded.
5. The following described portion of that certain tract of land situated at Balboa, Canal Zone, and placed under the control of the Secretary of the Navy by the Executive Order of May 26, 1914, No. 1948, is hereby transferred from the control of the Secretary of the Navy and placed under the control of the Secretary of War for military purposes:
   
   Starting at monument "V" which is a concrete monument whose location is latitude 8° 56′ plus 3602.8 feet, longitude 79° 33′ plus 1556.9 feet, shown on a map on file In the District Engineer Office, Balboa Heights, C. Z., entitled "Reservations of Fort Amador and Fort Grant, C. Z., File No. GP-2308 dated December 28, 1918; thence on a line (azimuth 97° 06′) connecting the said monument "V" with the center of the most southerly foot of the south radio tower, to the intersection of said line with the top of slope, a distance of 63 feet, more or less, which intersection is marked by a monument, marked "Mon. A" on the map; thence a distance of 534 feet on a line making an azimuth of 80° 44′ to a point just west of the main road to Fort Amador and marked by a peg set into a concrete pad in the gutter, marked "Mon. B" on the map; thence a distance of 405.3 feet on a line making an azimuth of 70° 0′ to the intersection with the present boundary line at Balboa Radio Station WZ (shown on a plan dated March 17, 1915, scale 1 to 600 entitled "U. S. Naval Radio Station, Balboa, C. Z." submitted by F. H. Cooke) marked by a monument called "Mon. C", on the map; thence a distance of 635.4 feet on a line making an azimuth of 307° 40′ to a point marked by a monument known as "Monument Z" thence a distance of 765 feet, more or less on a line making an azimuth of 217° 40′ to Monument "V" which is the point of beginning.
   
   All azimuths are true and read from south.
6. The transfer of the above described tract of land is made subject to the continued right of the Navy Department to lay and maintain therein underground antennae receiving wires needed in connection with the maintenance and operation of the Naval Radio Station at Balboa, C. Z.
7. This portion of land herein transferred is included in the above description of Fort Amador.
8. In addition to the above the Secretary of War shall have control of all lands and water for a distance of one hundred yards out to sea from the high water line on all shores of Fort Amador and Fort Grant Reservations, terminating at the prolongation of boundary lines towards the sea from points marked "Mon. D" and "Mon. G" on the map.

Woodrow Wilson 

The White House,

25th July, 1919.