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Executive Order 5036—Reserving Certain Described Lands in Alaska for the Department of Agriculture

January 24, 1929

Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 847), as amended by the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 497), it is hereby ordered that the unsurveyed land on Gravina Island, Alaska, within the following described boundaries be, and it is hereby temporarily withdrawn, subject to the conditions and limitations of said acts, in order to protect the water supply of a marine station of the Department of Agriculture:

All land within 100 feet of a center line extending South 36° West from corner No. 4 of U. S. Survey No. 1334 for a distance of approximately 2300 feet; thence South approximately 600 feet to the outlet of a small unnamed lake, and all land lying within one quarter of a mile from the shore of said lake, excepting such part as may be included within the said U. S. Survey No. 1334 upon which patent has issued, containing approximately 20 acres.

This order shall continue in full force and effect unless and until revoked by the President or by act of Congress.


CALVIN COOLIDGE

The White House,
January 24, 1929.

Calvin Coolidge, Executive Order 5036—Reserving Certain Described Lands in Alaska for the Department of Agriculture Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/360756

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