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Executive Order 5102—Restoring Certain Reserved Lands Withdrawn for the Extension of Chugach National Forest, Alaska

April 30, 1929

Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 34-36), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that the tracts of land in Alaska, lying within the hereinafter described boundaries, be and the same are hereby excluded from the Chugach National Forest, and restored to entry under the applicable public land laws:

Tract No. 1 located on the Seward-Kenai Lake Highway at Primrose Landing. Beginning at Corner No. 1 M.C., approximately in latitude 60° 19' N., longitude 149° 22' W., established 30 feet from center of Seward-Kenai Lake Highway, a brass capped iron post 3 feet long set 2 feet in ground marked H S 4/1; thence N. 72° W. 4.78 chains to Corner No. 2 a spruce post 3 feet long squared to 3 inches set 2 feet in ground marked H S 4/2; thence S. 22° 30' W. 4.22 chains to Corner No. 3, a spruce post 3 feet long squared to 3 inches set 2 feet in ground marked H S 4/3; thence S. 79° E. 4.54 chains to Corner No. 4 M. C., a spruce post 3 feet long squared to 3 inches set 2 feet in ground marked H S 4 M C/4 set 30 feet from center of Seward-Kenai Lake Highway; thence meander along highway N. 21° E. 1.69 chains, N. 33° E. 2.015 chains to Corner No. 1 the place of beginning, containing approximately 1.77 acres;

Tract No. 2 located at Lawing, Mile 23 on the Alaska Railroad. Beginning at Corner No. 1, approximately in latitude 60° 23' 30" N., longitude 149° 21' 30" W., a spruce post 5 feet long squared to 4 inches set l½ feet in ground marked H S/l; thence by meanders parallelling main railroad track and at a distance of 100 feet from the center thereof N. 57° W. 5.15 chains, and N. 43° W. 4.20 chains to Corner No. 2 a spruce post 4 feet long squared to 4 inches set 1½ feet in the ground marked H S/2; thence N. 59° 30' E. 4.90 chains to Corner No. 3 a spruce post 4 feet long squared to 3 inches set 1½ feet in the ground marked H S/3; thence S. 49° 30' E. 7.00 chains to Corner No. 4 a spruce post 5 feet long squared to 4 inches set 2½ feet in the ground marked H S/4; thence S. 33° W. 4.55 chains to Corner No. 1 the place of beginning, containing approximately 3.82 acres.

Signature of Herbert Hoover
HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
April 30, 1929.

Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5102—Restoring Certain Reserved Lands Withdrawn for the Extension of Chugach National Forest, Alaska Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/360811

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