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Executive Order 5219—Reserving Certain Described Lands for Alaska Reindeer Service Purposes, Alaska

November 05, 1929

It is hereby ordered that the following described tract of land within the Fort Davis abandoned military reservation, Alaska, which was placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior by Executive Order No. 3574, dated November 4, 1921, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn, subject to valid existing rights in and to the same under the mineral land laws, for use of the Alaska Reindeer Service:

Beginning at a point on the southern boundary of the abandoned military reservation of Fort Davis, Alaska, which bears south 72° 35' east 2,120 feet from 4"X4" post marked U. S. M. R., at the southwest corner of said abandoned reservation and extending thence north 17° 25' east 400 feet; thence due east 1,200 feet; thence south 17° 25' west to the southern boundary of the Fort Davis abandoned military reservation; thence along said boundary to place of beginning, 16.056 acres, more of less.

Signature of Herbert Hoover
HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
November 5, 1929.

Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5219—Reserving Certain Described Lands for Alaska Reindeer Service Purposes, Alaska Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/360916

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