Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 8923—Withdrawing Public Lands For the Use of the War Department as a National Guard Rifle Range

October 24, 1941

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the following-described public lands be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws, including the mining laws, and reserved for the use of the War Department as a National Guard rifle range:

NEW MEXICO PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 10 N., R. 2 E.,
     sec. 4, that part exclusive of the Atrisco grant;

T. 11 N., R. 2 E.,
     secs. 28 and 33;

containing 1,527.60 acres.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
October 24, 1941.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8923—Withdrawing Public Lands For the Use of the War Department as a National Guard Rifle Range Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210663

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