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Executive Order 9545—Restoring Certain Lands Comprising Part of the Aiea Military Reservation to the Use of the Territory of Hawaii

April 27, 1945

Whereas by Presidential Executive Order No. 2566, dated March 28, 1917, certain lands on the Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, were set aside for military purposes, such as reservation being known as the Aiea Military Reservation: and

Whereas it is deemed advisable and in the public interest that a part of such lands be restored to the Territory of Hawaii:

Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 91 of the act of April 30, 1900, 31 Stat. 159 as amended by section 7 of the act of May 27, 1910, 36 Stat. 447 it is ordered as follows;

The following-described parcel of land comprising a part of the Aiea Military Reservation, Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, is hereby restored to its previous status for the use of the Territory of Hawaii, subject to the rights-of-way, hereby reserved to the United States, for all purposes across, over and under the said parcel of land:

Beginning at the southwest corner of this piece of land, being also the initial point of Lot 2 of Presidential Executive Order No. 8320, the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to triangulation monument "Aiea" located on the Aiea-Halawa boundary line being 259.57 feet north and 355.96 feet east, from which monument "Aiea" the azimuth and distance to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey triangulation station "Salt Lake" is 292° 12'25", 9393.00 feet, and running as follows, all azimuths being measured clockwise from the true south:

1. First along the former east side of Kamehameha Highway on a curve to the left , with a radius of 1120.48 feet, the chord azimuth and distance being 186°21'41", 175.74 feet;

2. 227°11'35", 48.51 feet;

3. Thence along the proposed new east side of Kamehameha Highway, Hawaii Access Road, Project DA-NR 13, along the remainder of Lot 2 or Presidential Executive Order No. 8320, on a curve to the right having a radius of 1155.48 feet, the chord azimuth and distance being 4°42'56", 183.04 feet;

4. 57°48'20", 47.29 feet along the northwest side of the United States Navy 30-foot right-of-way, to the point of beginning.

The tract described contains an area of 6285 square feet or 0.144 acre.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

May 1, 1945

Harry S Truman, Executive Order 9545—Restoring Certain Lands Comprising Part of the Aiea Military Reservation to the Use of the Territory of Hawaii Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/231436

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