In accordance with the provisions of Section 2253 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and by the authority therein given, it is hereby ordered that the lands included within the following boundaries and being a portion of the Grand Forks land district, in the State of North Dakota, be transferred to and made a part of the Devils Lake land district in said State:
Beginning at the south-east corner of township one hundred and forty-nine north, range sixty-two west of the fifth principal meridian, thence north to the north-east corner of said township; thence east to the south-east corner of township one hundred and fifty north, range sixty-one west; thence north on the line between ranges sixty and sixty-one, to the north-east corner of township one hundred and fifty north, range sixty-one west; thence west to the north-west corner of the same township; thence north on the line between ranges sixty-one and sixty-two, to the north-east corner of township one hundred and fifty-two north, range sixty-two west; thence west on the line between townships one hundred and fifty-two and one hundred and fifty-three to a point in the take which if established would be the north-west corner, to township one hundred and fifty-two north, range sixty-three west; thence south on the line between ranges sixty-three and sixty-four, to its intersection with the twelfth standard parallel; thence east on said standard parallel to the place of beginning.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Theodore Roosevelt, Executive Order Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206823