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Executive Order 5849

Executive Order 5849—Transferring to Control and Jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy Certain Lands Opposite Balboa, and Establishing Thereon a Naval Base in the Canal Zone

Signed by Herbert Clark Hoover on May 19, 1932.

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