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 [56 STAT. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 5 t h day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-two and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixty-sixth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State ESTABLISHING THE CRISTOBAL AND THE GULF OF PANAMA MARITIME CONTROL AREAS AND PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS FOR THE CONTROL THEREOF January 13,1942 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INo. 2536] A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the United States is now at war, and the establishment of the maritime control areas hereinafter described is essential in the interests of national defense; and WHEREAS the Government of the Republic of Panama has requested the cooperation of the Government of the United States in exercising control in Panamanian waters adjacent to the Panama Canal, in accordance with the joint obligation of the two countries 3 Stat. 187 . under their General Treaty of March 2, 1936, and otherwise, to insure the effective protection of the said Canal: Estabrishtent of NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, by reas virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States and as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and in accordance with the principle of self-defense of the Law of Nations, do hereby establish and proclaim the following-described areas as the Cristobal Maritime Control Area and the Gulf of Panama Maritime Control Area for the purposes of safeguarding the Panama Canal and for national and hemispheric defense, and prescribe the following regulations for the control thereof: CRISTOBAL MARITIME CONTROL AREA All waters contained within the seaward limit of an arc de- scribed with the western breakwater entrance light at Cristobal, Canal Zone, as a center, a radius of 36 sea miles, and meeting the shore line in the east in the vicinity of position Latitude 90035' North, Longitude 79°21' West, and in the west in the vicinity of position Latitude 09°08' North, Longitude 80029' West. GULF OF PANAMA MARITIME CONTROL AREA All waters of the Gulf of Panama to the north of Latitude 8° North. REGULATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE CRISTOBAL AND THE GULF OF PANAMA MARITIME CONTROL AREAS vessels not under 1. A vessel not proceeding under United States naval or other authorized super-qsion, pro1edure. United States authorized supervision shall not enter or navigate the waters of the above-described Maritime Control Areas except during daylight, when good visibility conditions prevail, and then only after specific permission has been obtained. Advance arrangements for entry into or navigation through or within the said Areas must be PROCLAMATIONS-JAN. 5, 13, 1942 1932

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