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Executive Order 5251—Reserving Certain Described Lands for Target Range Purposes, Colorado

December 31, 1929

Under authority contained in the act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 847), as amended by the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 497), and subject to the conditions, provisions and limitations of said acts and also subject to valid existing rights in and to the s-ame and to prior existing withdrawals, it is hereby ordered that the SW. ¼ sec. 1, S. sec. 2, all of sec. 11, W. ½ sec. 12, NW. ¼ sec. 13, and N. ½ sec. 14, T. 49 N., R. 9 W., New Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado, be and the same are hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, entry, and all forms of appropriation, for use as a target range by Company "D", 157th Infantry, Colorado National Guard.

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

Signature of Herbert Hoover
HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
December 31, 1929.

Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5251—Reserving Certain Described Lands for Target Range Purposes, Colorado Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/360944

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