Executive Order No. 2479

[Providing for the Payment of Interest on Deposit Money Orders Issued in the
Canal Zone.]

  By virtue of the authority vested in me by law, it is hereby ordered:--
  1. That deposit money orders issued by the Canal Zone Postal Service
shall bear interest at the rate of one-half of one percentum for each
period of three full calendar months, from August 21, 1916, or subse-
quent date of issue. Interest shall be payable when the order is paid but
shall not accrue on any order for more than three years.
  2. The Governor of The Panama Canal is authorized to prescribe such
detailed rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out this order.

WOODROW WILSON.
THE WHITE HOUSE, October 22, 1916.