Executive Order 5212—Restoring Certain Reserved Lands for Resurvey and Opening Such Lands to Entry, Washington
It is hereby ordered that Executive Order No. 4726 of September 27, 1927, withdrawing among other lands the public lands in Secs. 20, 24 and 30, T. 32 N., R. 39 E., W.M., Washington, pending a resurvey in said township, be and the same is hereby revoked as to the above mentioned lands.
And it is hereby ordered, pursuant to public resolution No. 29 of February 14, 1920 (41 Stat. 434), as amended January 21 and December 28, 1922 (42 Stat. 358, 1067), that the above described lands, if otherwise subject to disposition, subject to valid rights, shall be opened to entry under the homestead or desert land laws only by qualified ex-service men of the War with Germany, under the terms and conditions of such resolutions, and the regulations issued thereunder, for a period of 91 days, beginning with the official filing of the plat of resurvey and thereafter to appropriation under any public land law applicable thereto, by the general public.
Subsequent to the date hereof, and prior to the date of restoration to general disposition as herein provided, no right may be acquired to the released lands by settlement in advance of entry, or otherwise, except strictly in accordance herewith.
HERBERT HOOVER
The White House,
October 25, 1929.
Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5212—Restoring Certain Reserved Lands for Resurvey and Opening Such Lands to Entry, Washington Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/360909