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Executive Order 6001—Discontinuing Certain Land Offices

January 18, 1933

In accordance with the provisions of sections 2248 and 2250 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and the act of March 3, 1877 (19 Stat. 294, 315), and by virtue of the authority therein given, it is hereby ordered that the United States land offices located at Little Rock, Ark., Alliance, Nebr., Cass Lake, Minn., and Gainesville, Fla., be discontinued and the business and necessary archives of said offices be transferred to and consolidated with the General Land Office, Washington, D. C., effective at the close of business January 31, 1933.

Signature of Herbert Hoover
HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
January 18, 1933.

Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 6001—Discontinuing Certain Land Offices Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/361555

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