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Executive Order 5191—Restoring Certain Reserved Lands Withdrawn for Classification and Legislation to Permit Homestead Entry, Florida

September 13, 1929

Executive Order No. 4262 dated July 3, 1925, withdrawing certain lands in the States of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi under the act of June 25, 1910, (36 Stat. 847) as amended by the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 497), pending classification and legislation is hereby modified so as to exclude from the force and effect thereof the S½ NW¼ Sec. 10, T. 45 S., R. 23 E., Tai. M., Florida for the sole purpose of permitting the homestead entry of Charley McMillan, Gainesville 021337, to remain intact as to said land.

This order is not to be construed to permit said land to become subject to settlement, location, sale, entry or other forms of appropriation except through the above mentioned homestead entry.

Signature of Herbert Hoover
HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
September 13, 1929.

Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5191—Restoring Certain Reserved Lands Withdrawn for Classification and Legislation to Permit Homestead Entry, Florida Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/360889

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